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A Book with a Color in its Title: 2021 Reading Challenge

Bohjalian, Chris

The Red Lotus

Falling in love with a wounded former patient and accompanying him on a cycling trip to Vietnam, an emergency-room doctor uncovers a bizarre series of deceptions that culminate in her boyfriend’s unexplained disappearance.


Graham-Felsen, Sam

Green

In 1992 Boston, Dave, a white boy at a mostly black middle school, befriends Marlon, a youth who lives in public housing and who confounds Dave’s assumptions about black culture before their bond is tested by girls, family secrets, and national violence.


Hibbert, Talia

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Emerging from a life-threatening illness, a fiercely organized but unfulfilled computer geek recruits a mysterious artist to help her establish meaning in her life, before finding herself engaged in reckless but thrilling activities.


James, Marlon

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

In the stunning first novel in the Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.


Lauren, Christina

Twice In a Blue Moon

A modern love story about what happens when your first love re-enters your life when you least expect it.


Lively, Penelope

Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

In her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings.


McQuiston, Casey

Red, White and Royal Blue

A big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends.


Murdoch, Sierra Crane

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country

Tells the true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it.


Rosner, Jennifer

The Yellow Bird Sings

A mother who goes into hiding when Nazis begin arresting Jewish citizens in Poland considers an impossible choice while struggling to keep her 5-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy, from being overheard.


Waters, Luke

NYPD Green: A Memoir

An Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective traces his childhood in northern Dublin to the bustle of New York City and his twenty-year rise to a lead investigator.

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