One Big Book
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: One Big Book. These count for two squares and are all over 400 pages. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures.
GN = Graphic Novel
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My Unforgotten Seattle
Nonfiction. In this 2020 memoir, Ron Chew shares “memories of growing up in Seattle as the son of parents who immigrated from China, and of the many people who have helped shape the communities that have too often been ignored.†(International Examiner)
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Plain Bad Heroines
Fiction. To say that the Brookhaunts School for Girls has a cursed history would be an understatement of outrageous proportions, but watching that history unfold in Danforth's immersive novel is a creepy pleasure from start to finish. (Library Journal)
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Our Share of Night
Fiction. In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. (Catalog description)
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Cuba
Nonfiction. A fluid, consistently informative history of the long, inextricable link between Cuba and the U.S., well rendered by a veteran Cuban American historian. (Kirkus)
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The Third Person
Nonfiction. Writer and animator Grove’s debut graphic memoir portrays her youth coming to terms with her sexuality and gender dysphoria. (Kirkus) GN
Format: Graphic Novel
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The 1619 Project
Nonfiction. A book-length expansion of the New York Times Magazine issue that explores the history of slavery in America and its countless toxic consequences. Those readers open to fresh and startling interpretations of history will find this book a comprehensive education. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Nonfiction. United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology...[which] celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. (NoveList)
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The Iliad
A masterful, highly readable rendering of the Greek classic…a bloody tale of ancient war and grief comes to vibrant life in modern-day English. (Kirkus)
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Fiction. Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself. (Catalog description)
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The Book That Wouldn't Burn
Fiction. An aspiring librarian and a young man trapped in her library attempt to unravel its mysteries in this tightly paced fantasy. (Kirkus)
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