Challenge: Buzzy Books of Summer

Your favorite authors have new books coming out this summer! You know that holds list is going to be long so let's make sure you have read their backlist. Read one title from the lists below and get 10 points and a badge!

When you complete 1 task, you will earn 10 points and a badge.

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Task

Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune (released May 5)

  • Every Summer After
  • One Golden Summer
  • This Summer Will Be Different

Whistler by Ann Patchett (Releases June 2)

  • The Dutch House
  • State of Wonder
  • Tom Lake
  • Commonwealth

Land by Maggie O'Farrell (Releases June 2)

  • Hamnet
  • The Marriage Portrait
  • This Must Be the Place
  • I Am, I Am, I Am ;Seventeen Brushes with Death

Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See (Releases June 9)

  • The Island of Sea Women
  • Lady Tan's Circle of Women
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
  • China Dolls

It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell (Releases June 23)

  • None of This is True
  • Don't Let Him In
  • The Night She Disappeared
  • The Girls in the Garden

The Land and Its People by David Sedaris (Releases July 2)

  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Calypso
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

An Infinite Love Story by Chanel Cleeton (Releases July 7)

  • Next Year in Havana
  • The House on Biscayne Bay
  • The Cuban Heiress
  • The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes

The Unknown by Riley Sagar (Releases August 4)

  • With a Vengeance
  • The Only One Left
  • Home Before Dark
  • The Last Time I Lied
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