F ICTION
 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
 The Winter Queen by B. Akunin
 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian by Sherman Alexie
 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
 Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by
Aimee Bender
 The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C.
Alan Bradley
 March by Geraldine Brooks
 Kindred by Octavia Butler
 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
 1356: a Novel by Bernard Cornwell
 Invisible City by Julia Dahl
 The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
 The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
 Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
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Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Fledgling by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Shambling Guide to New York City by
Mur Lafferty
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot
Livesey
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Doc by Maria Doria Russell
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford
Infected by Scott Sigler
Please Look After Mom by Kyong-suk Sin
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by
Robin Sloan
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
The Book of Salt by Monique Truon
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community by Robert D. Putnam
House of Stone: a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt
Junkyard Planet: travels in the billion-dollar trash trade by Adam Minter
The Smartest Kids in the World: and how they got that way by Amanda Ripley
The Language Instinct: how the mind creates language by Steven Pinker
 Spell it out: the curious, enthralling and extraordinary story of English spelling by David
Crystal
 The Signal and the Noise: why so many predictions fail—but some don’t by Nate Silver
 The Pluto Files: the rise and fall of America’s favorite planet by Neil Degrasse Tyson
 E=mcp2s: a biography of the world’s most famous equation by David Bodanis
 The Disappearing Spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world
from the periodic table of the elements by Sam Kean
 Packing for Mars: the curious science of life in the void by Mary Roach
 The Poisoner’s Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum
 The Ghost Map: the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic—and how it changed science,
cities, and the modern world by Steven Johnson
 The Sociopath Next Door: the ruthless versus the rest of us by Martha Stout
 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by William
Kamkwamba
 Alex & Me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence—
and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
 What Are You Looking At?: the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150
years of modern art by Will Gompertz
 The Judgement of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world impressionism by
Ross King
 Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
 I Was Told There’d Be Cake: essays by Sloane Crosley
 Will in the World: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
 The Other Wes Moore: one name, two fates by Wes Moore
 Just Kids by Patti Smith
 The Black Count: glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
 The Pianist: the extraordinary true story of one man’s survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by
Wadysaw Szpilman
 Chinese Lessons: five classmates and the story of the new China by John Pomfret
 Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
 King Leopold’s Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa by Adam
Hochschild
 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
 This Republic of Suffering: death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
 Triangle: the fire that changed America by Dave Von Drehle
 The Lost City of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
 Turn Right at Machu Picchu: rediscovering the lost city one step at a time by Mark Adams
READING LOG
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The Frank L. Weyenberg Library’s
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This year, challenge yourself to read outside the box by
participating in FLW’s 2016 Reading Challenge. Choose fifteen
books from a list of over 75 fiction and non-fiction titles to read
over the course of the calendar year. Selections cover a wide
range of topics and genres so that everyone can find something
new to enjoy. Keep track of your progress on the attached reading
log, and share your book choices and reviews at:
www.flwlib.org /CommunityVoice. Once you have completed
the challenge turn in your reading log at the reference desk
anytime prior to December 30th, 2016 .