Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing - Fiction Selection - Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge

Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing - Fiction Selection

Time to read a pair of books - a fiction and a nonfiction book that go together. Either about a similar topic, with a similar setting, or maybe with the same author.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver with Coleen Marlo (Narrator)

16 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction literary thriller challenging dark tense slow-paced

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver with Coleen Marlo (Narrator)

16 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction literary thriller challenging dark tense slow-paced

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with Shayna Small (Narrator), Aaron Goodson (Narrator), Michael Crouch (Narrator), Lee Osorio (Narrator)

13 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah with Shayna Small (Narrator), Aaron Goodson (Narrator), Michael Crouch (Narrator), Lee Osorio (Narrator)

13 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced

The Porcelain Maker
Sarah Freethy

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

The Porcelain Maker

Sarah Freethy

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir

476 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

Love Beyond Body, Space & Time by Hope Nicholson

Love Beyond Body, Space & Time
Hope Nicholson with Grace L. Dillon (Contributor), Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Contributor), Cherie Dimaline (Contributor), Gwen Benaway (Contributor), Richard Van Camp (Contributor), Mari Kurisato (Contributor), Nathan Adler (Contributor), Daniel Heath Justice (Contributor), Darcie Little Badger (Contributor), Cleo Keahna (Contributor), David A. Robertson (Contributor)

121 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction short stories young adult adventurous reflective medium-paced

Love Beyond Body, Space & Time

Hope Nicholson with Grace L. Dillon (Contributor), Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Contributor), Cherie Dimaline (Contributor), Gwen Benaway (Contributor), Richard Van Camp (Contributor), Mari Kurisato (Contributor), Nathan Adler (Contributor), Daniel Heath Justice (Contributor), Darcie Little Badger (Contributor), Cleo Keahna (Contributor), David A. Robertson (Contributor)

121 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction short stories young adult adventurous reflective medium-paced

Feel the Fire
Hotshots #3

Annabeth Albert with Iggy Toma (Narrator)

9 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional slow-paced

Feel the Fire

Hotshots #3

Annabeth Albert with Iggy Toma (Narrator)

9 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional slow-paced

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

560 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

560 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced

Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot #17

Agatha Christie

256 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot #17

Agatha Christie

256 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

388 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

388 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced

The Stranding
Kate Sawyer

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction hopeful reflective medium-paced

The Stranding

Kate Sawyer

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction hopeful reflective medium-paced

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