2015 Reading Challenge | Overton High

21) The agony and the ecstasy: a novel of Michelangelo

Author

Stone, Irving

Notes

A book with antonyms in the title

22) Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Series

Alice in Wonderland

Notes

A book from your childhood

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This special edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll's marvelous tales set in the whimsical world beyond the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. Caroll's first novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, finds Alice stuck in Wonderland, surrounded by curious creatures and with no idea of how to return home. With questionable aid from the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, Alice eventually finds her way back home. But the

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23) American gods: a novel

Author

Gaiman, Neil

Series

Hugo Award 2002

Notes

A book that made you cry

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Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

24) american psycho

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25) Ancillary justice

Author

Leckie, Ann

Series

Imperial Radch volume 1

Notes

A book with nonhuman characters

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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.
"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." — John Scalzi
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest....

26) As you wish: inconceivable tales from the making of The princess bride

Author

Elwes, Cary

Notes

A memoir

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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.

27) Atlas shrugged

Author

Rand, Ayn

Notes

A book that scares you

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A satire on the follies and dangers of collectivism in which the United States is faced with the prospect of economic collapse when the country's leading innovators and industrialists go into hiding.

28) Batman: the killing joke

Author

Moore, Alan

Notes

A graphic novel

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Comic, eBook, Kindle

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A graphic novel that tells the story of how and why the Joker turned to a life of crime.

29) Battlefield Earth: a saga of the year 3000

Author

Hubbard, L. Ron

Notes

A book based entirely on its cover

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A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard s Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the alien Psychlo empire in a battle of epic scale,

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30) Before I go to sleep: a novel

Author

Watson, S. J

Notes

A mystery or thriller

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New York Times Bestseller

"An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page." —Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Shutter Island

"Imagine drifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away by morning. That's the fate of Christine Lucas, whose bewildering internal world is rendered with chilling intimacy in

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31) belgarath the sorcerer

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32) Beloved: a novel

Author

Morrison, Toni

Notes

A book with a one-word title

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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...

33) Between shades of gray

Author

Sepetys, Ruta

Notes

A book set in a different country

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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

34) The black prism

Author

Weeks, Brent

Series

Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 1

Notes

A book with magic

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When Gavin Guile--high priest and emperor, the most powerful man in the world known to all as the Prism--discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

35) Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

Author

Moore, Christopher

Series

Vampire love stories (Christopher Moore) volume 1

Notes

A funny book

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eBook, Kindle

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Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.

Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana,

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36) The bone season: a novel

Author

Shannon, Samantha

Series

Bone season volume 1

Notes

A book written by someone under 30

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In the mid-21st century major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

37) The book of life: a novel

Author

Harkness, Deborah E

Series

All souls trilogy volume 3

Notes

A book at the bottom of your to-read list

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"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...

38) books of blood volumes one to three

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39) Brave new world

Author

Huxley, Aldous

Series

Harper Perennial modern classics

Notes

A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

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Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

40) The broken kingdoms

Author

Jemisin, N. K

Series

Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 2

Notes

A book by a female author

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After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.