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I have hit the halfway point exactly. 26 books down, 26 to go. Catching up with summer reading before school starts back up in August!
Halfway point favorite books: The Remains of the Day, I Have Some Questions For You, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Silent Wife, Lessons in Chemistry









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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (other topics)Beartown (other topics)
Home Before Dark (other topics)
The Guncle (other topics)
Hamnet (other topics)
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✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - The Silent Wife
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship - Pineapple Street
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
6. A book where books are important - The Midnight Library
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
8. An author's debut book - The Paper Palace
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - Hamnet
✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - Carrie Soto Is Back
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies - The Thorn Birds
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover - The Latecomer
✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake - Counterfeit
✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 - The Last Kingdom
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 - Bring Up the Bodies
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3
18. A book related to science - Project Hail Mary
✅19. A book related to the arts - Groupies
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel - We Begin at the End
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - The Remains of the Day
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
✅23. A book with a body of water in the title - Sea Wife
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy - Descent
25. A book with a tropical setting
✅26. A book related to pride - Perfect on Paper
✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✅28. A book that is dark - Dark Matter
29. A book that is light - The Light We Lost
✅30. A book related to a chess piece - The Inheritance Games
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com I Have Some Questions for You
✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature - Beautiful World, Where Are You
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 - The Signature of All Things
✅34. A novella - The List of Things That Will Not Change
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title - Lessons in Chemistry
✅36. A book that has been translated from another language - Beartown
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home - Home Before Dark
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover - Sea of Tranquility
39. A western - Where the Lost Wander
✅40. A book with a full name in the title - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - Black Cake
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter - The Sun Down Motel
✅43. A book that involves a murder - The Maid
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal - It Happened One Summer
✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Writers & Lovers
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - The Measure
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story - Remarkably Bright Creatures
✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - The Woman in the Library
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - The Love Hypothesis
✅51. A book published in 2023 - The Golden Spoon
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title - The Guncle