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kelly_virginia
Librarian Early Bird
Currently reading (2)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Clark G. Gilbert

Mainly reads fiction books that are reflective, emotional, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long.

Read recently
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir

To-Read Pile
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Challenges

2024 Reading Goal

60 books

68% (41 books)

2024 Pages Goal

20,000 pages

71% (41 books), 14,220 pages

Hosted challenges
Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners

16 prompts | 1 participant | 96 books added

NYT Best Books since 2000

24 prompts | 10 participants | 235 books added

National Book Award's Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Winners

36 prompts | 2 participants | 166 books added

National Book Awards - 5 Under 35

18 prompts | 6 participants | 94 books added

Pen Hemingway Award Winners

48 prompts | 12 participants | 48 books added

National Book Award for Fiction 1990s

10 prompts | 4 participants | 50 books added