RHHS Pandemic Readathon

Thu, 06/11/2020 - 11:23am

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/98003208-rhhs-book-club?shelf=pandemic-readathon-2020

Nonfiction

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
  • Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
  • The Glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
  • Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
  • Thick - Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker - Damon Young

Literary Fiction

  • An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
  • Beloved -Toni Morrison
  • Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng
  • There There - Tommy Orange
  • Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  • Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens
  • Nothing to See Here- Kevin Wilson
  • The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
  • Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
  • Curious Incident of the Dog- Mark Haddon
  • Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Dai Sijie
  • The North Water- Ian McGuire
  • Cutting for Stone- Abraham Verghese
  • Less than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis
  • Monday’s Not Coming - Tiffany D Jackson
  • Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Historical Fiction

  • All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  • Maus (graphic novel) - Art Spiegelman
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • The Book Thief - Mark Zusak
  • Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier Between
  • Shades of Gray- Ruta Sepetys
  • The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
  • Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

Epic Fantasy

  • Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
  • Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  • Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
  • Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
  • A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab
  • Horatio Hornblower - C.S. Forester
  • An Ember in the Ashes- Sabaa Tahir
  • Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

Fantasy

  • Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern
  • Sorcerer to the Crown- Zen Cho
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  • The Once and Future King - T. H White
  • Circe - Madeline Miller
  • Uprooted- Naomi Novak T
  • he Grace of Kings - Ken Liu
  • Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
  • Fledgling - Octavia Butler

Horror/Thriller

  • Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
  • The Alienist - Caleb Carr
  • Devil in the White City - Eric Larson
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  • The Good House - Tananarive Due
  • The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo
  • Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi
  • The Shining - Stephen King
  • Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
  • The Power - Naomi Alderman
  • The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  • The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown

Sci-Fi

  • Red Rising - Pierce Brown
  • Parable of the Sower- Octavia Butler
  • Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
  • Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Blue Light - Walter Mosely
  • Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor

Short Story Collections:

  • Orange World - Karen Russell
  • The Paper Menagerie - Kevin Liu
  • Gorilla, My Love - Toni Cade Bambara
  • Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self- Danielle Evans
  • Woman Hollering Creek- Sandra Cisneros
  • In the Country- Mia Alvar

With TV shows

  • Game of Thrones- George RR Martin: HBO
  • Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood: Hulu S
  • herlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Netflix
  • Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal)-Thomas Harris: Amazon Prime 
  • The Stranger Beside Me (also nonfic) - Anne Rule (anything Ted Bundy, Netflix)
  • Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng: Hulu
  • The Magicians - Lev Grossman: Netflix
  • Good Omens - Neil Gaiman: Hulu
  • Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness: Hulu
  • Orange is the New Black- Piper Kerman
  • Big Little Lies- Liane Moriarty

With Movies

  • Simon Vs. The Homosapiens Agenda (Love, Simon)- Becky Albertalli
  • The Hate You Give- Angie Thomas
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post- Emily M. Danforth
  • Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
  • Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
  • The Shining - Stephen King
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  • Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
  • Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  • Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
  • Once and Future King (Sword in the Stone)- T.H. White
  • Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Dear White People - Justin Simien
  • Just Mercy- Bryan Stevenson