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New Book Raiders: Read 20 New Releases

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3 participants (28 books)

10 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Librarians bring the freshest books to the New Book Shelf. I relish seeing what awaits me there. Books
with no coffee stains, crumbs between pages, dog-eared pages.  List your discoveries here. The challenge is for twenty finds. More or less, you win. Happy Reading!

Challenge Books

All books added
Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Laura Lynne Jackson

288 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up by Dave Barry

Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

Dave Barry

256 pages • hardcover • 2025 user-added

nonfiction memoir
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir by Brian Buckbee, Carol Ann Fitzgerald

We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir

Brian Buckbee, Carol Ann Fitzgerald

256 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir nature emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

207 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

304 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction health memoir nature hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures by Alix Morris

A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures

Alix Morris

304 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir nature science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
A Change of Habit by Sister Monica Clare

A Change of Habit

Sister Monica Clare

336 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir religion hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh

240 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

Molly Jong-Fast

256 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)

Stanley Tucci

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction food and drink memoir inspiring medium-paced