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Nicole Lara | 11 comments June
✅✅✅1. Father's Day:
✅a. Book whose main character is a father What You Did by Claire McGowan (COMPLETED 15/6)
✅b. Biography or history nonfiction book Medical Apartheid The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (COMPLETED 30/6)
✅c. Author's initials can be found in PATERNITY The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (COMPLETED 26/6)

✅✅✅2. Estival Solstice:
✅a. Book with a title that is 5 or more words My Favourite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren (COMPLETED 24/6)
✅b. Cover has plants on the cover The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer (COMPLETED 25/6)
✅c. Book is set in the Northern Hemisphere Happy Place by Emily Henry - Set in Maine, USA (COMPLETED 3/6)

✅✅✅3. Hibernal Solstice:
✅a. Book that is at least 400 pages long Pucking Around (Jacksonville Rays, #1) by Emily Rath (COMPLETED 17/6)
✅b. Book with fire on the cover The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren (COMPLETED 5/6)
✅c. Book is set in the Southern Hemisphere Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen - Set in Australia (COMPLETED 3/6)

✅✅✅4. Pride Month:
✅a. Written by an author who identifies as LGBTQIA+ Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (COMPLETED 21/6)
✅b. A banned or challenged book The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (COMPLETED 30/6)
✅c. A coming of age novel The Brink by Holden Sheppard (COMPLETED 18/6)

July
✅✅✅1.Let's Play:
✅a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND House of Beauty by Melba Escobar (N COMPLETED 5/7)
✅b. Includes a character who plays a sport Pucking Ever After Volume 1 (Jacksonville Rays, #1.5) by Emily Rath (COMPLETED 6/7)
✅c. Published in a year ending with 3 Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood - published 2023 (COMPLETED 1/7)

✅✅✅2. Travel Season:
✅a. Set in multiple countries The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo (COMPLETED 6/7)
✅b. A book with a map The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0) by Ken Follett (COMPLETED 27/7)
✅c. Cover has vehicle (car, plane, boat, train, hang glider, etc) Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren (COMPLETED 15/7)

✅✅✅3. Halfway there!
✅a. Book with an even number of pages The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (COMPLETED 1/7)
✅b. The next book in a series One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3) by Karen M. McManus (COMPLETED 31/7)
✅c. An author's second book Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (COMPLETED 8/7)

✅✅✅4. Turn Up the Radio:
✅4a. Book featuring or about musicians Finding Me by Viola Davis (COMPLETED 24/7)
✅b. Set in the 19th century Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (COMPLETED 11/7)
✅c. Author's initials can be found in GUGLIELMO MARCONI Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (COMPLETED 14/7)

August
✅✅✅1. Book Lovers Day:
✅a. Book written by your favorite author Hello Stranger by Katherine Center (COMPLETED 3/8)
✅b. Main character works in a book shop or library The Locker Room (The Brentwood Boys, #1) by Meghan Quinn (COMPLETED 12/8)
✅c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA A Burning by Megha Majumdar (COMPLETED 15/8)

✅✅✅2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
✅a. Science fiction book Hench (Hench, #1) by Natalie Zina Walschots (COMPLETED 29/8)
✅b. Sun, moon, or stars on the cover Heartstopper Volume One (Heartstopper, #1) by Alice Oseman (COMPLETED 6/8)
✅c. Inspired by or retelling myths Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1) by Xiran Jay Zhao (COMPLETED 14/8)

✅✅✅3. Make Waves:
✅a. Author's initials can be found in SURFBOARD The Only One Left by Riley Sager (COMPLETED 10/8)
✅b. Set in a coastal town or city Creep (Creep, #1) by Jennifer Hillier - set in Seattle (COMPLETED 4/8)
✅c. A sea creature is on the cover Things in Jars by Jess Kidd (COMPLETED 26/8)

✅✅✅4. Go Camping:
✅a. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies How to Be a Normal Person (How to Be, #1) by T.J. Klune - romance aka "the birds and the bees" (COMPLETED 12/8)
✅b. A ghost story Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (COMPLETED 8/8)
✅c. A book primarily set outdoors Drown Her Sorrows (Bree Taggert, #3) by Melinda Leigh (COMPLETED 2/8)


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