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Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
Bet: Low
Squares: 5, 17, 18
+25 points
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 425

As I Descended by Robin Talley
low Lexile; no styles
+20 task (shelved 104x as "Retellings")
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 400

Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu
+20 task
+10 combo (20.10 - Singapore, 10.3 - 2016)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 380

Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu
+20 task (set in Singapore)
+5 combo (20.2)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 350

Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu
+20 task (set in Singapore)
+5 combo (20.2)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 325

The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr
+10 task (500 S at BPL)
+5 combo (10.2)
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 280

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
+10 task
+10 not a novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 255

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
+20 task
+5 combo (10.3 - pub 2016)
+10 not a novel (essays)
Task Total: 35
Grand Total: 215

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
+20 task
+5 combo (20.2)
+5 oldies (1950)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 180

Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
+20 task
+10 combo (20.6, 20.9)
+10 not-a-novel
+5 oldies (1971)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 150

Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
Bet: Even
Squares: 10, 22, 32
+20 Task
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 105

The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan
+20 task ("child genius, musical sensation" in GR summary)
+10 combo (10.2, 10.3)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 85

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
+10 task (PEN/Bingham Prize, Hurston Legacy Award)
+10 not-a-novel (short stories)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 55

My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
+10 task (published 2016)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 25

Ten Days by Gillian Slovo
Bet: Black
Squares: 11, 15, 31
+15 Task
Task Total: 15
Grand Total: 15

All male, no repeats
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley
Letters used so far: A, B, D, G, H, I
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 285