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Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
+20 task
+10 combo (10.1, 20.6)
Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 495

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
+20 task (pub. 1868)
+35 combo (10.2 - #18 on first list; 10.3 - Liz; 10.9; 20.4; 20.5 - #20 on list; 20.7; 20.10)
+10 canon
Task Total: 65
Grand Total: 465

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
+10 task (members)
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 400

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
+15 task (Colombia - qualifies through A and C)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 390

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
+10 task (shelved as weird five times here)
No styles; low Lexile
Task Total: 10
Grand Total: 375

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
+15 task (Australia - qualifies through A, B, and C)
Task total: 15
Grand Total: 365

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
+10 task (hanging)
+10 not a novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295"
+5..."
Thanks Cory!

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
+10 task (hanging)
+10 not a novel (memoir)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 295

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
+10 task (link here)
+10 combo (10.1 - Amanda in Winter 14/15; 10.4)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 275

Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools
+10 task (rebirth)
+10 Not a Novel (nonfiction)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 255

Symbiont by Mira Grant
+15 task (born in U.S., U.S. nationality)
+5 500+ pages
Task total: 20
Grand Total: 235

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
+20 task
+25 combo (10.3 - Kate; 10.5 - 2015 Nebula; 10.7; 10.8 - here; 20.2)
Task Total: 45
Grand Total: 215

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
+10 task (Ph.D. in Renaissance studies according to GR bio)
+15 combo (10.3 - on Elizabeth's list; 10.8 - here; 10.9)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 170

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
+10 task (lookout)
+10 Not-a-Novel (nonfiction)
+15 Prize-Worthy (Phyllis & Don Munday Award, Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, Nat'l Outdoor Book Award)
Task total: 35
Grand Total: 145

Dare Me by Megan Abbott
+ 10 task (on Girl Canon list)
+ 15 combo (10.6 - Ph.D. according to GR bio, 10.8 here, 20.6 - crime genre on main page)
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 110

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
+10 task (Don reviewed here)
+5 combo (10.4 - tal..."
Thanks, Cory! I didn't even think to check...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
+10 task (Don reviewed here)
+5 combo (10.4 - talking)
+10 not a novel
Task total: 25
Grand Total: 65

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
+20 task (shelved 252 times as Crime)
+15 prize worthy (Barry Award for Best First Novel, LA Times Book Prize, Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award among others)
+5 jumbo (528 pages)
Task total: 40
Grand Total: 40