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What about Cities of the Plain? It's not really in a town at all--they spend most of their time out on the frontier lands.
15.1 CiV 10Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
I-J-K/301-340/2008-2022
Task total: 15
Grand total: 340
20.3 PiratesDjibouti by Elmore Leonard
+20 Task
+10 Aged
+20 Combo (10.5, 10.7 - Cultural & Mystery, 10.8, 20.10)
Task total: 50
Grand total: 325
10.7 Genre RichLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
+10 Task (Mystery & Science Fiction)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 265
Hooray for planning!10.1 - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
10.2 - EASTER
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
10.3 - Shakespeare (Best Endings)
The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
10.4 - First Name - 3, 4, 5 letters
Slade House by David Mitchell
10.5 - Database
The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi
10.6 - Space
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
10.7 - Favorite Women
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
10.8 - Ukraine
The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
10.9 - Dual
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
10.10 - Group Reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
15.1 - Northern Africa
The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai (Tunesia)
The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne (Morocco)
15.2 - Western Africa
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Nigeria)
15.3 Central Africa
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher (Congo)
15.4 - Eastern Africa
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
15.5 - Southern Africa
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn (Swaziland)
15.6 Central Asia
A Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris (Kazakhstan)
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov (Kazakhstan)
15.7 - East Asia
Life by Lu Yao (China)
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Japan)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan)
15.8 - Southern Asia
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy (Afghanistan) low lexile
Sold by Patricia McCormick (Nepal/India) Lexile 800+
15.9 - Southeast Asia
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (Thailand)
15.10 - Western Asia
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Israel)
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (Israel)
20.1 - pub. 1847-1911
The Body Snatcher and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
20.2 - Pulitzer winner
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz
20.3 - Our Town
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
20.4 - Reivers
Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha
20.5 - Civil War
American War by Omar El Akkad
20.6 - Color Purple
Something from Discworld - maybe Going Postal low lexile
20.7 - Oscar Wao
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
20.8 - Texas
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
20.9 - Birthdays
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
20.10 - Between the Wars
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (if not used for 10.3)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Post 667 Joanna wrote: "20.6 Hidden FiguresDay by Elie Wiesel
Joanna, I feel terrible about this. This title is a YA Assignment at BPL and has a Lexile of 520. Task, but no styles..."
Boo! YA Assignment is the worst. I always forget to check that.
20.6 Hidden FiguresDay by Elie Wiesel
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.2, 10.8, 20.1)
+10 Lost in Translation (from French)
+10 Aged
Task total: 55
Grand total: 280
20.1 Maid in WaitingThe Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson
+20 Task (3rd in trilogy)
+5 Combo (10.6 - Science fiction/cultural)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 225
10.1 List LoversAll These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor
+10 Task (using this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 200
20.2 Keys to the KingdomTopping from Below by Laura Reese
+20 Task (pub. 1995; 1734 ratings)
+10 Combo (10.6 - Time, 20.4 - Thriller MPG)
Task total: 30
Grand total: 190
Update to Post 511:The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
+10 LiT (original language French)
This post: 10
Grand total: 160
10.6 NYE CountdownThe Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood
+10 Task (TIME)
Task total: 10
Grand total: 80
20.8 Dead SeaReckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
+20 Task (RH)
+5 Combo (20.4 - Thriller)
Task total: 25
Grand total: 70
