<<^^>>LYNN'S SUMMER READING CHALLENGE<<^^>>

[L Y N N]

These challenges are always rather complex and yet I typically have little problem fitting the books I read in to the prompts! There is much room for selection!

Summer Challenge Overall:
12/12 books as of August 16 DONE!

To add:
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
June 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

JUNE
4/4 prompts completed as of July 25

✅1. Pride Month
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.
a. Read a book with at least 5 different colors of the rainbow on the cover.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
June 27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Read a book featuring an LGBTQIA+ protagonist (not side character).
c. Read a book that was nominated for or won the Lambda Award.

✅2. June Birthdays: Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. With the rise of WWII, Anne's family moved to Amsterdam when she was 4, and eventually went into hiding as the Nazis overtook the Netherlands. While in hiding, she wrote a series of diaries documenting her experience, which were eventually published by her father, the only survivor of WWII in the Frank family.
a. Read a book set during WWII.
*The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
*Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
b. Read a book that was published in sometime between 1900 and 1950.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Initially published in 1907.
July 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Read The Diary of Anne Frank.

✅3. Father's Day
In 1972, Woodrow Wilson made Father's Day a national holiday in the United States, and it occurs on the third Sunday of June. While other countries choose to celebrate dads at different times of the year, many countries have adopted the third Sunday in June as their Father's Day as well.
a. Read a book that starts with a letter in FATHERS DAY.
All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
July 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city
b. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their father.
c. Read a book featured on one of these lists about fathers:
☀️11 Unforgettable Books about Fatherhood
A Wrinkle in Time
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Tinkers
Autumn
☀️28 Books to Give Dad on Father's Day
A Lucky Man
The Call of the Wild
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
My Dad Loves Me
☀️Top 10 Books about Fathers
Grief is the Thing with Feathers

✅4. Hit the Beach
For the northern hemisphere, the first day of summer is marked by the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Many people use summertime as a chance to get some sunlight on the beach!
a. Read a book with a yellow or blue cover.
b. Read a book where someone goes to the beach.
c. Read a book found on this list of best beach reads.
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
June 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Vanishing Half
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date #1)
Sex and Vanity
Beach Read
All Adults Here
Head Over Heels
Island Affair
What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers
Real Men Knit
The Jetsetters
The Herd
Red, White & Royal Blue
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
My Lovely Wife
Park Avenue Summer & Sex and The Single Girl
Speaking of Summer
Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks #1)
Normal People
The Mother-in-Law

JULY
4/4 as of July 20

✅1. Halfway There!
July 1st marks the halfway point of the year. And while it seems like 2020 has lasted 1700 years, we are only halfway to 2021.
a. Read a book with a page number that ends in 2.
b. Read a book that is divided into multiple parts (rather than, or in addition to, chapters).
c. Read a book that features twins.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
July 4 ⭐️

✅2. July Birthdays: Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (also known by his pen name, and later, his legal name of Pablo Neruda) was born on July 12, 1904 in Chile. At only 13, he published his first work of poetry. He went on to become a diplomat and poet, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, two years before his death.
a. Read a book set in South America.
b. Read a book published between 1904 and 1973.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
First published in 1957
June 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Read a book written in verse (must still meet the 100 page requirement).

✅3. It's Winter Down South
While those of us in the northern hemisphere are enjoying the warm temperatures and the sunshine, our neighbors in the southern hemisphere are cozying up around the fire and drinking hot cocoa.
a. Read a book set in the southern hemisphere.
b. Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in the phrase LET IT SNOW. (Title must be at least two words long.)
Love, Stargirl (Stargirl #2) by Jerry Spinnelli
June 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Read a book found on TED's Winter Reading List.
Americanah
How to Be a Woman
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
The Alchemist

✅4. Summer Reading
Summer means the best reading months for so many of us. New releases have bright and shiny colors, and the warm weather makes for great picnics and reading in the sun.
a. Read a happy book.
Read a book published in June, July, or August.
c. Read a book from one of the following lists:
☀️ A New Season of Reading
All Adults Here
Big Summer
The Guest List
Beach Read
Something to Talk About
☀️ Authors Offer Summer Reading Recommendations
Dear Edward
The House of Mirth
A Moveable Feast
Native Son
Felix Ever After
☀️ Goodreads Employees Share Their Summer Reading Plans
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
June 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Big Summer
All Adults Here
Butterfly Island
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Beach Read
Red at the Bone
Sharks in the Time of Saviors

AUGUST
4/4 as of August 16

✅1. Read Good Books
Some of us like to overload our reading with multiple challenges, while others of us are content with just trying to finish ATY. Whatever your stance on challenges is, it's nice when you have a book that you can slot in anywhere.
a. Read a book by a favorite author.
b. Read the next book in a series you've already started.
Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4) by Carolyn Haines
July 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Read a book published in 2020 that you've been looking forward to.

✅2. Back to School
Many students and teachers are heading back to the classrooms this month. Celebrate that back-to-school feeling with a bit of smart summer reading.
a. Read a book by an author who is new-to-you.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
b. Read a YA book.
The Accomplice (Theodore Boone #7) by John Grisham
July 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Read a book often tested on the AP Literature exam, as found on this list.
The Age of Innocence
The Alchemist
Angle of Repose
Another Country
Black Boy
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Broken for You
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Fences
For Whom the Bell Tolls
House Made of Dawn
The House of Mirth
Middlemarch
Mrs. Dalloway
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
Out of Africa
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Sun Also Rises
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

✅3. August Birthdays: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Illinois. Known most prominently for Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury was the author of many science fiction, horror, and fantasy novels and short stories. He is also well known in the film community and has an award named after him for achievement in screenwriting.
a. Read a book in which the initials of the author's name can be found in RAY BRADBURY.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
August 16 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Read a sci-fi or horror book.
Fahrenheit 451
c. Read a collection of short stories (must still meet the 100 page requirement).

✅4. Go for a Drive
With the warm air and a nice breeze, now is the perfect time to roll down your windows and go for a drive... whether it's to the beach, to the mountains, or to your best friend's house.
a. Read a book with a car on the cover.
Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
July 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in the phrase WINDOWS DOWN, BREEZE BLOWING.
c. Read a book where a character visits multiple countries