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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Bubblegum
Fiction. In an alternate future with no internet but instead interactive technology called Curio, 38-year-old Belt Magnet is living with his widowed father and utterly absorbed by Curio and his books when a simple trip to the bank explodes his world. (Library Journal)
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The Book of Love
Fiction. In a small town in the middle of the night, the spirits of three dead students and one interloper have escaped death's realm by methods as mysterious as the cause of their deaths. Two of them will live, two of them will die, but as they're solving all the riddles, they may reunite with their families. (Library Journal)
Format: Book
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Shubeik Lubeik
Fiction. At an unassuming street stall in Egypt, store owner Shokry has stocked something special: three first-class wishes. The book unfolds across three stories, each revolving around how one of the wishes is bought and used. (School Library Journal) GN
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
Fiction. A boy who hears objects talking and his mother, who can’t stop hoarding things, work out their destinies in a meditative tribute to books, libraries, and Zen wisdom. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
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Same Bed Different Dreams
Fiction. A secret history of Korea from the 20th century to the present, suffused with postmodern weirdness. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
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The Dead Are Arising
Nonfiction. A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination. (NoveList)
Format: Book
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Let the Record Show
Nonfiction. Few activist organizations of the late 20th century have had the impact of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Novelist and playwright Schulman was herself intimately involved in the group, and has written a deeply personal account of its heady years. (Library Journal)
Format: Book
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My Name Is Barbra
Nonfiction. The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. (Catalog description)
Format: Book
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The Jasmine Throne
Fiction. Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. (Catalog description)
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Fiction. Tagame tells the story of an artist dreamer named Sora Itoda struggling to negotiate high school as a young gay man, who keeps up the pretense that friend Nao is his girlfriend until he meets openly gay Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged coffee shop owner who becomes Sora's mentor. But Mr. Amamiya has his own painful past to confront. (Library Journal) GN
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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