Friendship
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2024 category: Friendship. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. GN=Graphic novel (Created May 2024)
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My Friends
Fiction. Attending the University of Edinburgh, Benghazi transplant Khaled forms a powerful friendship with the author whose short story changed his life, forcing him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
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Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes
Fiction. With her life a total disaster, Instagram star Jude Andrews, broke due to her latest bad decision, and her best friend, Lauren Turner, a single mother, decide to move in together, and soon realize that their new townhouse can only hold so much baggage.
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Wahala
Fiction. An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha
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Dele Weds Destiny
Fiction. Three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria reunite at the posh Lagos wedding of one of their daughters and recount the events of the past 30 years including loves, losses, an abortion and an affair with an American Peace Corps volunteer.
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The Rachel Incident
Fiction. Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous bourgeois wife.
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The No-girlfriend Rule
YA. Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a shot at real, swoon-worthy love.
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The Best Life Book Club
Fiction. A newly single mom starts a job at a small publishing house in the Pacific Northwest and discovers that good books and great friends are the perfect ingredients for a fresh start.
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We Should Not Be Friends
Nonfiction. Tracing an extraordinary, life-changing college friendship over decades of challenge and change, this warm, funny and irresistible book follows the author as he, joining a little-known secret society at Yale, finds an unlikely friend in a physically imposing, loud, star wrestler determined to become a Navy SEAL.
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Best of Friends
Fiction. Two best friends who grew up in Karachi must confront their differences 30 years later when two troubling figures from their past resurface, in the new novel from the acclaimed author of Home Fire.
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The Gulf
YA GN. Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just words. Oli flees to find the commune on a Gulf Island off the coast of Vancouver, taking with her Milo, who can't help but hide his feelings behind the safety of a video camera, and Alvin, a shy teen who sees more than he lets on. Behind them trails Liam, Oli's ex-best-friend and sometimes love interest, who wants to apologize for the way things went down.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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