Find Your (Inner) Space Kalamazoo Public Library Adult Summer Reading Challenge June 3 – August 31, 2019 • Read any 3 titles from the lists below and receive a KPL journal made from recycled material. KPL Staff Picks: How to disappear: notes on invisibility in a time of transparency by Akiko Busch My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Meaty: essays by Samantha Irby That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter By Margareta Magnusson Contrary Motion by Andrew Mozina Never Home Alone: from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live by Rob Dunn KLP Social Justice Collection: There There by Tommy Orange A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Fight the Power: African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City by Clarence Taylor White Lives Matter Most: and other “little” white lies by Matt Meyer The Color of Compromise: the truth about the American church’s complicity in racism by Jemar Tisby Killing with Prejudice: institutionalized racism in American capital punishment by RJ Maratea Unbecoming: a memoir of disobedience by Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati Until We Reckon: violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair by Danielle Sered The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner The Wrong End of the Table: a mostly comic memoir of a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in by Ayser Salman The Color of Life: a journey toward love and racial justice by Cara Meredith Graphic Novels: The life of Frederick Douglass : a graphic narrative of a slave's journey from bondage to freedom by David Walker Paper Girls, vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan The Magic Order, vol. 1 by Mark Millar American Gods. Shadows by Neil Gaiman Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse suite by Gerard Way Saga, vol. 1 by Brian Vaughan Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred by Damian Duffy Science Fiction / Fantasy: Circe by Madeline Miller The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood Kindred by Octavia Butler Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick The Women’s War by Jenna Glass Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Frankenstein by Mary Shelley American Gods by Neil Gaiman Uprooted by Naomi Novik Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Library Reads: Ayesha at last by Uzma Jalaluddin Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner Pride, Prejudice, and other flavors: a novel by Sonali Dev The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Little Darlings: a novel by Melanie Golding Normal People: a novel by Sally Rooney Women Talking by Miriam Toews The Mother-in-law by Sally Hepworth The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Historical Fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Girl with Ghost Eyes by MH Boroson Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman The Shadow Land by Kostova Elizabeth Georgia: a novel of Georgia O’Keefe by Dawn Clifton Tripp The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles indieNext: The Island of Sea Women: a novel by Lisa See Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi A Woman is No Man: a novel by Etaf Rum The River by Peter Heller The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray Beautiful Bad by Annie Nigh Ward Queenie: a novel by Candice Carly-Williams The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Cape May by Chip Cheek The Guest Book by Sarah Blake Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Light from other Stars: a novel by Erika Swyler My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler The Parisian, or Al-Barisi by Isabella Hammad Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers Essays & Short Fiction: Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Black Glass: Short Fictions by Karen Joy Fowler Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith Florida by Lauren Groff: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link The Graybar Hotel: Stories by Curtis Dawkins Mothers Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South by Rick Bragg The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively Thick by Tressie McMillian Cottom Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samatha Irby We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Romance Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary Heated Moments by Phyllis Bourne The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistion As Good As the First Time by K.M. Jackson The Beauty and the CEO by Carolyn Hector One Warm Winter by Jamie Pope The Bride Test by Helen Hoang Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella Fumbled by Alexa Martin The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne Urban Fiction: Take Me As I Am by Bianca Desperate I’ll Do Anything For Love by B.M Hardin A Big Girls Revenge by Michel Moore Power Trip by Treasure Malian The Art of Deceit by Fabiola Joseph Ethic by Ashley Antoinette The Forgotten Wife by Lakisha Johnson Magic Touch by Treasure Hernandez The Side Effects of You by Anna Black The Liar’s Club by Layla Jordan Torn by the Code by Eureka Lawless by Kwan Beard Gang Chronicles by Blake Karrington If It Ain’t About the Money by Saundra On the Run with Love by J.M Benjamin .