Ranger Reading Challenge!

Category List pictured above: 1 - Read a memoir or biography/autobiography 2 - Read a book by a Mississippi author (or about MS) 3 - Read a book by a diverse author 4 - Read a book suggested by a librarian 5 - Read a book written before 1990  6 - Read a fantasy or science fiction book 7 - Read a thriller/mystery 8 - Read a children's book (bonus points for reading to a child) 9 - Read a self-help/inspirational book 10 - Read a Young Adult book 11 - Read a book about another country or international author 12 - Read a book made into a movie/TV show 

Bonus Points Pictured Above:

2 Extra Points: Read a history book -- Read a science book -- Read a book about travel -- Try and audio or eBook using the library's Hoopla app -- Read a graphic novel/manga -- Read a mythology or folklore book

1 Extra Point: Take a selfie reading someplace you don't typically read -- Follow and/or tag NWCC Libraries on social media -- Write a review of a book you loved for us to share with other readers -- Write a review of a book you loved for us to share with other readers -- Checkout an art/craft book. Then, draw or make something from the book and show us!

Books listed above in the image: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover; Unfinished: A Memoir by Priyanka Chopra Jonas; Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford; Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb; My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson; Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang; The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura; Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of An American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper; The Last Queen by Clive Irving; Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond; Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci; A Promised Land by Barack Obama; The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch; You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union

Books listed above in the image: Larry Brown and the Blue Collar South edited by Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry; The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor; Nick by Michael Farris Smith; The Past is Never: a novel by Tiffany Quay Tyson; Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music by Josephine Matyas and Craig Jones; The Devil's Bones by Carolyn Haines; The Heathens by Ace Atkins; A Time for Mercy by John Grisham; Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward; Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of The Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell; The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant; Long Division by Kiese Laymon; Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South by Mike Selby; In The Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow by Robert H. Mayer; The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's by Malcolm White and Ginger Williams Cook; Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant.

Books listed above in the image: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead; Black Water Rising by Attica Locke; Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu; The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera; The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi; Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin; There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange; Poet Warrior: A Memoir: by Joy Harjo; Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi; Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang; The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Books listed above in the image: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris; Caul Baby: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins; Razorblade Tears: A Novel by S. A. Cosby; The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles; The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki; Shadows Reel by C. J. Box; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; The Good Girl by Mary Kubica; The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel; Summer Darlings by Brook Lea Joster; An Ember in the Ashes by Saba Tahir; The Judge's List by John Grisham; The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins; Rivers: A Novel by Michael Farris Smith; The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh; The End of Her by Shari Lapena

Books listed in the image above: The Shining By Stephen King; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; The Sound of Summer Voices by Helen Tucker; Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan; The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett; Christy by Catherine Marshall; Kindred by Octavia E. Butler; The Cater Street Hangman: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel by Anne Perry; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery; 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke; The Godfather by Mario Puzo; The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Books listed above in the image: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig;  A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab; Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna; Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chroncles of St. Mary's by Jodi Taylor; The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski; The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan; To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini; Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas; The Cruel Prince by Holly Black; A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer; Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo; The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin; The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Books listed above in the image: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides; The Paris Apartment: A Novel by Lucy Foley; Run Rose Run: A Novel by Dolly Parton and James Patterson; The Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose; The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris; Greenwich Park: A Novel by Katherine Faulkner; Reckless Girls: A Novel by Rachel Hawkins; Still Life: A Novel by Louise Penny; The Therapist by B. A. Paris; Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica; Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena; A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins; The Night She Disappeared: A Novel by Lisa Jewell; The Push: A Novel by Ashley Audrain; The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith; Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Books listed in the image above: Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel; Boo Hoo Bird by Jeremy Tankard; I Can Help by Reem Faruqi and Mikela Prevost; Time For School, Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry; Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall; Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn and Rosalind Beardshaw; Curious George at the Baseball Game by Margret and H. A. Rey; Outside, Inside by LeVyen Pham; We Are All Under One Wide Sky by Deborah Wiles and Andrea Stegmaier; Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by Kimberly and James Dean

Books listed above in the image: Anxious For Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World by Max Lucado; The Kindness Method: Changing Habits for Good by Shahroo Izadi; Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler; The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve by Rheeda Walker, PhD; Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Conversation and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown; Outer Order Inner Calm; Declutter and Organize To Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin; Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink; Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven; Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe; Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You're Going to Do About It by Bob Goff; The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Principles of All by Jon Gordon; Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear; Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at the Time by Brenda Salgado; Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Learn: Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses by John C. Maxwell

Books listed above in the image: The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky; Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi; Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan; Tristan Strong Punches A Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia; The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline; Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo; Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas; Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; The Ivies by Alexa Donne; To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han; With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Books listed above in the image: The Woman Next Door: A Novel by Yewande Omotoso; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel by Lisa See; Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor; Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Acheba; Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi; Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson; Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese; The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton; Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney

Books listed above in the image: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah; The Stranger by Harlan Coben; Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng; Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens; Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan; A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness; Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough; The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness; Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott; Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty; The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis; Virgin River by Robyn Carr