Orillium Year Long Challenge 2024 - hosted by asahome

July
The next month's prompt is based on what you did in May. The numbers correspond to the prompt.

1 or 3: Complete and keep an extra strong healing potion: book about a topic you care about

2 or 4: Befriend and tame a messenger crow: read a friend's favorite
All books added
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by B.R. Burg

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

B.R. Burg

264 pages • paperback • 1983

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603 by Anne Chambers

Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603

Anne Chambers

205 pages • hardcover • 1979

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

David Cordingly

296 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

The Bad Beginning

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1

Lemony Snicket

180 pages • hardcover • 1999

fiction middle grade mystery adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Emily Austin

258 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional funny medium-paced
Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History by Gavin Hanke, Martha Black, Lorne Hammond

Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History

Gavin Hanke, Martha Black, Lorne Hammond

216 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction nature adventurous hopeful informative medium-paced
Gender Rebels: 30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present by Katherine Locke

Gender Rebels: 30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present

Katherine Locke

120 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction lgbtqia+ middle grade young adult informative fast-paced
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

Richard Cohen

784 pages • hardcover

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Part of Your World

Part of Your World #1

Abby Jimenez

10 hours, 5 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
We Are the Land: A History of Native California by William J Bauer, Damon B Akins

We Are the Land: A History of Native California

William J Bauer, Damon B Akins

15 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced