2015 Reading Challenge | Overton High

121) The scarlet letter

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Series

Running Press classics

Notes

A book with a color in the title

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A dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England, The scarlet letter revolves around a forbidden act of passion that alters the lives of three members of a Puritan community: Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear the letter "A" and bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister who is tormented by hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester's vengeful husband....

122) Seabiscuit: an American legend

Author

Hillenbrand, Laura

Notes

A book based on a true story

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"Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race."--

123) Shiver

Author

Stiefvater, Maggie

Series

Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 1

Notes

A book set in high school

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In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

124) Siddhartha

Author

Hesse, Hermann

Series

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Notes

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

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Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Hesse's classic work tells the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on Earth.

125) The signal and the noise: why so many predictions fail-- but some don't

Author

Silver, Nate

Notes

A book with antonyms in the title

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Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.

126) The silence of the lambs

Author

Harris, Thomas

Series

Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3

Notes

A mystery or thriller

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An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the

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127) The slow regard of silent things

Author

Rothfuss, Patrick

Series

Kingkiller chronicles

Notes

A book you can finish in a day

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Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.

128) Somewhere in time

Author

Matheson, Richard

Notes

A book that takes place in your hometown

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Written by one of the grand masters of modern fantasy, Somewhere in Time is the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose powerful love for a woman he has never met allows him to literally transcend time.

A dying young playwright staying in a turn-of-the-century hotel becomes captivated by a painting of a beautiful stage actress from the previous century. Obsessed, he begins to study everything he can about the woman and her time and becomes

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129) A Spell for Chameleon

Author

Anthony, Piers

Series

Xanth volume 1

Notes

A funny book

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eBook, Kindle

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Piers Anthony’s bestselling Xanth series is one of the cornerstones of fantasy, a lively and whimsical interpretation of a genre often criticized for taking itself too seriously. Anthony’s first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, was initially edited to target a more traditional audience. Now, in an eBook exclusive, A Spell for Chameleon has been reworked line by line—its language matching the simpler, playful way...

130) The stand: the complete & uncut edition

Author

King, Stephen

Notes

A book that made you cry

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A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, in a desert world, experience dreams of good and evil in confrontation and, through their choices, move toward an actual confrontation. This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped...

131) Station eleven: a novel

Author

Mandel, Emily St. John

Series

Thorndike Press large print peer picks

Notes

A book set in the future

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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...

132) A streetcar named Desire

Author

Williams, Tennessee

Series

New directions paperbook volume NDP501

Notes

A play

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Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

133) Swamplandia!

Author

Russell, Karen

Series

Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

Notes

A Pulitzer Prize-winning book

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This blazingly original debut novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades to meet Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, overtaken by a sophisticated competitor. As her family members variously die, disappear, depart and defect, Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, is left to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. (Bestseller)

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135) The Time Machine and The Invisible Man

Author

Wells, H. G

Notes

A book more than 100 years old

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The Time Machine Published in 1895, The Time Machine was the first novel to suggest the theme of time travel by machine, and along with other books by Wells, it was a forerunner of the contemporary science fiction genre, then known as “scientific romances.” Wells wrote mainly speculative fiction concerned with the contemporary problems of human society and its possible futures. While his works express a hope in human technology...

136) V for vendetta

Author

Moore, Alan

Series

V for Vendetta

Notes

A graphic novel

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Comic, eAudiobook, eBook

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In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.

137) Watchmen

Author

Moore, Alan

Series

Watchmen

Notes

A graphic novel

Formats:

Comic, eBook

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Set in a world in which history has been forever altered by the existence of superheroes, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' monumental graphic novel WATCHMEN is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed comic book series of all time. Following two generations of masked crime-fighters from the end of World War II to the height of the Cold War, this compelling tale unfolds from a simple murder mystery into an epic saga of power, corruption and...

138) We are pirates: a novel

Author

Handler, Daniel

Notes

A Book published this year

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"A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay"--

139) White oleander: a novel

Author

Fitch, Janet

Notes

A book with a color in the title

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A Los Angeles girl whose mother goes to jail is taken in hand by the city's foster-care program and the novel describes her experience in a series of homes, each a new adventure. A first novel.

140) Words of radiance

Author

Sanderson, Brandon

Series

Stormlight archive volume 2

Notes

A book with more than 500 pages

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The war with the Parshendi moves into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains. Meanwhile Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and Kaladin, leader of the restored Knights Radiant, masters the powers of a Windrunner.