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Atkins Reading Challenge

Adapted for the Screen

Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll

Firestarter
by Stephen King

Dune: Book 1
by Brian Herbert

Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano

The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Award-winning Books

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
by Isaac Blum

All My Rage
by Sabaa Tahir

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka

Trust
by Hernan Diaz

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by Marianne Cronin

Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli

Banned Books

The 57 Bus
by Dashka Slater

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

All Boys Aren't Blue
by George M. Johnson

How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi

Gender Queer: a Memoir
by Maia Kobabe

In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez

Blowing up on #Booktok

The Atlas Six
by Olivie Blake

Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
by V. E. Schwab

Pineapple Street
by Jenny Jackson

Featured in a Celebrity Book Club

What's Mine and Yours
by Naima Coster

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
by Cherie Jones

The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim

The Fortunes of Jaded Women
by Carolyn Huynh

River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer

Graphic Novels

Lore Olympus: Volume One
by Rachel Smythe

Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
by Nicole J. Georges

Black Widow Vol. 1: the Ties That Bind
by Kelly Thompson

I'm Still Alive
by Roberto Saviano

Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha

Night Fever
by Ed Brubaker

Part of a Series

How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge
by K. Eason

The American Roommate Experiment
by Elena Armas

Moon Witch, Spider King
by Marlon James

The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart

A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny

Deadlocked
by Charlaine Harris

Published in 2023-2024

Black Candle Women
by Diane Marie Brown

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
by J. Ryan Stradal

Ascension
by Nicholas Binge

The Librarian of Burned Books
by Brianna Labuskes

Iveliz Explains It All
by Andrea Beatriz Arango

Old God's Time
by Sebastian Barry

Set in Another Country

Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It Is Wood, It Is Stone
by Gabriella Burnham

The Thirst
by Jo Nesbø

Sea Prayer
by Khaled Hosseini

Night Theater
by Vikram Paralkar

I Shot the Buddha
by Colin Cotterill

Set in North Carolina or Written by a North Carolina Author

Book Lovers
by Emily Henry

Carolina Built
by Kianna Alexander

The Girl From Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda

Lake Life
by David James Poissant

Decent People
by De'Shawn Charles Winslow

It Dies with You
by Scott Blackburn

Young Adult (YA) Novels

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
by Sonora Reyes

The Labors of Hercules Beal
by Gary D. Schmidt

Wake the Bones
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne

The Ogress and the Orphans
by Kelly Barnhill

Tumble
by Celia C. Pérez

Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi