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20.8 The Big 5-0This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
+20 task (on the second list)
+10 not a novel
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 565
10.10 Group Reads Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
+10 task
+15 combo (10.5; 20.4 - not going to reveal a spoiler, but Anika claimed this earlier and a hidden identity is key to the story; 20.9 - ditto!)
+10 female
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 535
10.9 Summer, Not Winter The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer
+10 task (set in South Africa)
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 500
15.8 Ticket to Ride Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
City = Duluth
+25 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto -- Chicago -- Saint Louis -- Kansas City -- Omaha -- Duluth)
Season total: 490
15.7 Ticket to Ride You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
City = Omaha
+25 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto -- Chicago -- Saint Louis -- Kansas City -- Omaha)
Season total: 465
15.6 Ticket to Ride Exhalation by Ted Chiang
City = Kansas City
+25 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto -- Chicago -- Saint Louis -- Kansas City)
Season total: 440
15.5 Ticket to Ride True Biz by Sara Nović
City = Saint Louis
+15 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto -- Chicago -- Saint Louis)
Season total: 415
15.4 Ticket to Ride The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
City = Chicago
+15 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto -- Chicago)
Season total: 400
15.3 Ticket to Ride The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
City = Toronto
+15 Task (Sault St. Marie -- Montreal -- Toronto)
Season total: 385
10.8 "Fairytale of New York"And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
+10 task (published 1987)
+5 combo (10.6)
+5 oldies
+10 not a novel
+5 jumbo (660 pages)
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 370
10.7 Feasting Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala
+10 task (mamon is a Filipino dessert)
+10 female author
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 335
10.1 Square Peg The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
+10 task
+10 not a novel
+10 female author
Task: 30
Season Total: 315
20.9 Fresh Start The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
+20 task (main character Tanner takes a new job and moves into a new house for that job as the initiating event and main focus of the book)
+5 combo (10.2)
+10 female author
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 280
20.7 The Wild LifeTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
+20 task
+10 female author
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 245
20.4 Othello Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
+20 task (multiple people including the man who starts the book's action and the girl the PI is hunting for, are using assumed names and identities)
+5 combo (10.8 - pub 1982)
+10 female author
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 215
10.6 Winter Birthdays Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity by Kim Malone Scott
+10 task
+10 female author
+10 not a novel
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 180
10.3 New Year's Traditions Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
+10 task (set in Mumbai, India)
+5 combo (20.10 - book is about people living in slums in Mumbai)
+10 not a novel
+10 female author
Task Total: 35
Season Total: 150
20.10 Boxing Day Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
+20 task (book is a memoir of poverty while working as a household maid)
+10 not a novel
+10 female author
Task Total: 40
Season Total: 115
20.4 Othello Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
+20 task (key element is that 1 of the main characters has changed his name to disguise his true identity)
(no styles - Lexile)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 75
