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2025 A-Z Reading Challenge
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items This year, I'm working on a challenge to read a book with a title that starts with each letter of the alphabet. To round it out to an even 30 books, I'm also going to read a book with a one-word title, a color in the title, a number in the title and ...
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Set in present-day Mexico, American Dirt follows Lydia, a bookstore owner who flees Acapulco with her son after her journalist husband is murdered by a ruthless drug cartel, forcing them to embark on a harrowing journey as migrants toward the U.S. bo...
Set in present-day Mexico, American Dirt follows Lydia, a bookstore owner who flees Acapulco with her son after her journalist husband is murdered by a ruthless drug cartel, forcing them to embark on a harrowing journey as migrants toward the U.S. bo...
American Dirt
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Dopamine Detox explores how constant exposure to instant gratification—through social media, gaming, and other quick-fix pleasures—rewires the brain, leading to decreased motivation and productivity. What sets this book apart is its practical, scienc...
Dopamine Detox explores how constant exposure to instant gratification—through social media, gaming, and other quick-fix pleasures—rewires the brain, leading to decreased motivation and productivity. What sets this book apart is its practical, scienc...
Dopamine Detox: Beat Addiction & Wasting Life
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Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal flips the traditional hustle narrative on its head by showing that you don’t have to grind yourself into burnout to get things done. Drawing from his experience as a doctor turned YouTuber and productivity expert,...
Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal flips the traditional hustle narrative on its head by showing that you don’t have to grind yourself into burnout to get things done. Drawing from his experience as a doctor turned YouTuber and productivity expert,...
Feel-Good Productivity: Do What Matters
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Set in 1972 in the rundown Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store follows a diverse community of Jewish and Black residents who band together to protect a deaf Black boy from institutionalization, r...
Set in 1972 in the rundown Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store follows a diverse community of Jewish and Black residents who band together to protect a deaf Black boy from institutionalization, r...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is a historical fiction novel set in the early 1800s American South, following the intertwined lives of Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy slaveholding family, and Handful, the enslaved girl given to her a...
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is a historical fiction novel set in the early 1800s American South, following the intertwined lives of Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy slaveholding family, and Handful, the enslaved girl given to her a...
The Invention of Wings
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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a historical adventure novel set in 1954, following 18-year-old Emmett Watson as he embarks on a road trip with his younger brother, Billy, intending to start fresh in California. Their carefully laid plans take ...
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a historical adventure novel set in 1954, following 18-year-old Emmett Watson as he embarks on a road trip with his younger brother, Billy, intending to start fresh in California. Their carefully laid plans take ...
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
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My Notorious Life is a historical fiction novel set in 19th-century New York City, following the rise of Axie Muldoon, a poor orphan who becomes one of the city’s most controversial—and sought-after—midwives. Inspired by real-life figures, the book o...
My Notorious Life is a historical fiction novel set in 19th-century New York City, following the rise of Axie Muldoon, a poor orphan who becomes one of the city’s most controversial—and sought-after—midwives. Inspired by real-life figures, the book o...
My Notorious Life: A Novel
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The Orphan’s Tale is a historical fiction novel set in World War II Europe, where a young woman hiding from the Nazis joins a traveling circus and forms an unlikely bond with a Jewish aerialist also in hiding. What makes this book especially compelli...
The Orphan’s Tale is a historical fiction novel set in World War II Europe, where a young woman hiding from the Nazis joins a traveling circus and forms an unlikely bond with a Jewish aerialist also in hiding. What makes this book especially compelli...
The Orphan's Tale: A Novel
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Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by C. Edward Watson and Jose Antonio Bowen is a friendly, forward-thinking guide for educators navigating the brave new world of artificial intelligence in the classroom. The authors ...
(Read this one as part of the USD faculty/staff book club and so glad I did!)
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by C. Edward Watson and Jose Antonio Bowen is a friendly, forward-thinking guide for educators navigating the brave new world of artificial intelligence in the classroom. The authors ...
(Read this one as part of the USD faculty/staff book club and so glad I did!)
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide
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Set during World War II and the Vietnam War, The Women by Kristin Hannah follows a young nurse, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, as she volunteers to serve in Vietnam, facing the horrors of war and the harsh realities awaiting her upon returning home. With...
Set during World War II and the Vietnam War, The Women by Kristin Hannah follows a young nurse, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, as she volunteers to serve in Vietnam, facing the horrors of war and the harsh realities awaiting her upon returning home. With...
The Women: A Novel
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Yellowface is a contemporary literary satire set in present-day Washington, D.C., following the story of June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals the manuscript of her recently deceased, more successful Asian American friend—and publishes i...
Yellowface is a contemporary literary satire set in present-day Washington, D.C., following the story of June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals the manuscript of her recently deceased, more successful Asian American friend—and publishes i...
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick
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Set in a dystopian near-future, The Rain Heron is a lyrical eco-fable that unfolds across a war-ravaged landscape shaped by myth and survival. The story follows a solitary woman in the mountains and a young soldier on a mission, both entangled with a...
Set in a dystopian near-future, The Rain Heron is a lyrical eco-fable that unfolds across a war-ravaged landscape shaped by myth and survival. The story follows a solitary woman in the mountains and a young soldier on a mission, both entangled with a...
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a contemporary historical fiction novel set mainly in Hollywood from the 1950s to the 1980s, telling the story of glamorous film icon Evelyn Hugo as she finally reveals her scandalous and de...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a contemporary historical fiction novel set mainly in Hollywood from the 1950s to the 1980s, telling the story of glamorous film icon Evelyn Hugo as she finally reveals her scandalous and de...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel