1.
It’s time for the…
Holiday Reading
Extravaganza!!!!

2.
A few quick things before we start…
•Book Depository UK
•Amazon China
•Your local public library OverDrive
•How this will work…
•Goodreads ratings

3.
The Night Circus -- Dyane
• Author: Erin Morganstern
• 387 pages
• Genre: fantasy
• Goodreads rating: 4.04 (542,000
ratings)

4.
Small Great Things -- Sharon M.
• Author: Jodi Picoult
• 510 pages
• Genre: Contemporary fiction
• Goodreads rating: 4.35 (177,000
ratings)

5.
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas -- Linnea
• Author: Agatha Christie
• 335 pages
• Genre: mystery, crime, thriller,
classics
• Goodreads rating: 3.93 (28,000
ratings)

6.
All the Lives We Never Lived -- Claudia
•Author: Anuradha Roy
•320 pages
•Genre: historical fiction
•Goodreads rating: 3.93 (226 ratings)

7.
The Collector -- Vanessa
• Author: John Fowles
• 283 pages
• Genre: classics, horror, thriller
• Goodreads rating: 3.99 (43,000
ratings)

8.
The Knife of Never-Letting Go--Leigh
• Author: Patrick Ness
• 479 pages
• Genre: science fiction
• Goodreads rating: 3.97 (128,000
ratings)
*We have this in the library!

9.
The Eyre Affair -- Isolde
• Author: Jasper Fforde
• 374 pages
• Genre: Fantasy, mystery, humor
• Goodreads rating: 3.91 (102,000
ratings)
*We have this in the library!

10.
All the Light We Cannot See -- Deborah
•Author: Anthony Doerr
•531 pages
•Genre: historical fiction
•Goodreads rating: 4.32 (731,000
ratings)
*We have this in the library!

11.
The Stupidest Angel -- Bethany
• Author: Christopher Moore
• 243 pages
• Genre: Humor, Christmas holidays
• Goodreads rating: 3.82 (37,000
ratings)

12.
A Brief History of Humankind -- Karin
• Author: Yuval Noah Harari
• Pages: 443
• Genre: nonfiction, anthropology,
history
• Goodreads rating: 4.45 (185,000
ratings)

13.
The Color Purple -- Johnetta
• Author: Alice Walker
• 295 pages
• Genre: Realistic fiction, historical
fiction, feminism
• Goodreads rating: 4.19 (442,000
ratings)

14.
Extras!

15.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Linnea
• Author: Khaled Hosseini
• 372 pages
• Genre: realistic fiction, (recent)
historical fiction
• Goodreads rating: 4.35 (967,000 ratings)
*We have this in the library!

16.
The Book Thief -- Deborah
• Author: Markus Zusak
• 552 pages
• Genre: historical fiction
• Goodreads rating: 4.36 (1.5 million
ratings)
*We have two copies in the library!

17.
The Secret Place -- Linnea
•Author: Tana French
•480 pages
•Genre: mystery, crime, thriller
•Goodreads rating: 385 (48,000
ratings)

18.
MaddAddam Trilogy -- Linnea
• Author: Margaret Atwood
• 389 pages
• Genre: Science fiction, dystopia
• Goodreads rating: 4.00 (188,000
ratings)

19.
Homo Prospectus -- Karin
• Author: Martin Seligman
• Pages: 400
• Genre: philosophy, psychology
• Goodreads rating: 4.26 (31 ratings)