2023 Bookish Atlanta Reading Challenge

1.
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives 3.99 avg rating β€” 9,506 ratings
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The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays 4.08 avg rating β€” 6,195 ratings
3.
Take My Hand
Take My Hand 4.36 avg rating β€” 102,734 ratings
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She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good 3.23 avg rating β€” 471 ratings
5.
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation 3.35 avg rating β€” 2,165 ratings
6.
Lark Ascending
Lark Ascending 4.16 avg rating β€” 4,835 ratings
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Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport 4.05 avg rating β€” 359 ratings
8.
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century
by: Wong May
4.45 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
9.
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems 3.91 avg rating β€” 201 ratings
10.
Alive at the End of the World
Alive at the End of the World 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,836 ratings
11.
Bluets
Bluets 4.06 avg rating β€” 54,813 ratings
12.
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,077 ratings
13.
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,266 ratings
14.
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,156 ratings
15.
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us 4.10 avg rating β€” 13,880 ratings
16.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by: Anne Case
3.81 avg rating β€” 2,347 ratings
17.
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life 3.97 avg rating β€” 5,125 ratings
18.
The Town of Babylon
The Town of Babylon 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,552 ratings
19.
Just by Looking at Him
Just by Looking at Him 3.73 avg rating β€” 8,031 ratings
20.
All This Could Be Different
All This Could Be Different 3.83 avg rating β€” 19,760 ratings
21.
Skye Falling
Skye Falling 3.83 avg rating β€” 8,690 ratings
22.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead 3.85 avg rating β€” 82,700 ratings
23.
Shutter (Rita Todacheene #1)
Shutter (Rita Todacheene #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 15,981 ratings
24.
A Minor Chorus
A Minor Chorus 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,469 ratings
25.
Bad Cree
Bad Cree 3.91 avg rating β€” 17,860 ratings
26.
Apple: Skin to the Core
Apple: Skin to the Core 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,471 ratings
27.
Woman of Light
Woman of Light 3.64 avg rating β€” 13,620 ratings
28.
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation 4.25 avg rating β€” 4,258 ratings
29.
High-Risk Homosexual
High-Risk Homosexual 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,364 ratings
30.
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,206 ratings
31.
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water 3.88 avg rating β€” 30,154 ratings
32.
Olga Dies Dreaming
Olga Dies Dreaming 3.97 avg rating β€” 73,422 ratings
33.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 4.05 avg rating β€” 310,312 ratings
34.
Mother Ocean Father Nation
Mother Ocean Father Nation 3.72 avg rating β€” 661 ratings
35.
Gold Diggers
Gold Diggers 3.58 avg rating β€” 11,461 ratings
36.
All My Rage
All My Rage 4.48 avg rating β€” 61,048 ratings
37.
The Return of Faraz Ali
The Return of Faraz Ali 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,591 ratings
38.
Disorientation
Disorientation 3.83 avg rating β€” 17,960 ratings
39.
The Book of Goose
The Book of Goose
by: Yiyun Li
3.69 avg rating β€” 19,280 ratings
40.
Lemon
Lemon 3.26 avg rating β€” 13,349 ratings
41.
When We Fell Apart
When We Fell Apart 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,728 ratings
42.
The Boy and the Dog
The Boy and the Dog 4.01 avg rating β€” 5,791 ratings
43.
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 104,246 ratings
44.
Last Summer on State Street
Last Summer on State Street 4.21 avg rating β€” 11,475 ratings
45.
Black Cake
Black Cake 4.09 avg rating β€” 217,006 ratings
46.
Nightcrawling
Nightcrawling 3.96 avg rating β€” 57,341 ratings
47.
Find Her. Keep Her.
Find Her. Keep Her. 4.01 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
48.
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School 4.25 avg rating β€” 28,988 ratings
49.
An Arrow to the Moon
An Arrow to the Moon 3.43 avg rating β€” 4,556 ratings
50.
Hell Followed With Us
Hell Followed With Us 4.10 avg rating β€” 30,522 ratings
51.
Man o' War
Man o' War 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,241 ratings
52.
We Deserve Monuments
We Deserve Monuments 4.28 avg rating β€” 10,487 ratings
53.
The Insiders
The Insiders 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,252 ratings
54.
Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Hazel's Theory of Evolution 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,146 ratings
55.
Root Magic
Root Magic 4.20 avg rating β€” 3,355 ratings
56.
What Happened to Rachel Riley?
What Happened to Rachel Riley? 4.18 avg rating β€” 3,669 ratings
57.
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1) 3.36 avg rating β€” 194,931 ratings
58.
Lolo’s Light
Lolo’s Light 4.12 avg rating β€” 281 ratings
59.
Jackal
Jackal 3.65 avg rating β€” 17,422 ratings
60.
A History of Wild Places
A History of Wild Places 3.92 avg rating β€” 65,376 ratings
61.
They Never Learn
They Never Learn 3.91 avg rating β€” 73,812 ratings
62.
The Cloisters
The Cloisters
by: Katy Hays
3.39 avg rating β€” 68,891 ratings
63.
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family 3.78 avg rating β€” 649 ratings
64.
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier 3.54 avg rating β€” 1,751 ratings
65.
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) 3.62 avg rating β€” 9,884 ratings
66.
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power 3.98 avg rating β€” 317 ratings
67.
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,089 ratings
68.
When We Were Birds
When We Were Birds 3.77 avg rating β€” 8,735 ratings
69.
Nettle & Bone
Nettle & Bone 4.09 avg rating β€” 125,370 ratings
70.
Light from Uncommon Stars
Light from Uncommon Stars
by: Ryka Aoki
4.05 avg rating β€” 36,861 ratings
71.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War 3.85 avg rating β€” 308,579 ratings
72.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1) 4.03 avg rating β€” 126,815 ratings
73.
Priestdaddy
Priestdaddy 3.86 avg rating β€” 25,274 ratings
74.
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,478 ratings
75.
Crying in the Bathroom
Crying in the Bathroom 3.97 avg rating β€” 7,037 ratings
76.
All Down Darkness Wide
All Down Darkness Wide 4.17 avg rating β€” 3,184 ratings
77.
Stay True
Stay True
by: Hua Hsu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 43,586 ratings
78.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 4.16 avg rating β€” 18,851 ratings
79.
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,868 ratings
80.
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,848 ratings
81.
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World 4.21 avg rating β€” 755 ratings
82.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
by: Jane Ward
4.13 avg rating β€” 2,053 ratings
83.
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders 3.92 avg rating β€” 7,108 ratings
84.
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative 4.22 avg rating β€” 5,837 ratings
85.
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,086 ratings
86.
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind 3.66 avg rating β€” 1,269 ratings
87.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture 4.31 avg rating β€” 31,755 ratings
88.
Feelings: A Story in Seasons
Feelings: A Story in Seasons 4.18 avg rating β€” 3,341 ratings
89.
Dogs of Summer
Dogs of Summer 3.77 avg rating β€” 28,654 ratings
90.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Cleopatra and Frankenstein 3.70 avg rating β€” 204,897 ratings
91.
The Orchard
The Orchard 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,561 ratings
92.
True Biz
True Biz 4.06 avg rating β€” 77,912 ratings
93.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,050,222 ratings
94.
Yerba Buena
Yerba Buena 3.85 avg rating β€” 30,009 ratings
95.
If I Survive You
If I Survive You 3.68 avg rating β€” 12,956 ratings
96.
Can't and Won't
Can't and Won't 3.58 avg rating β€” 5,283 ratings
97.
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs 3.78 avg rating β€” 6,138 ratings
98.
Seven Empty Houses
Seven Empty Houses 3.69 avg rating β€” 12,979 ratings
99.
Burning Girls
Burning Girls 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,416 ratings
100.
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration 4.37 avg rating β€” 412 ratings
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