CEO Lita's Picks for Reading Challenge 2026Like this list

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• The Tiger and the Cosmonaut

  Boudel Tan, Eddy

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  January theme: A book about a journey

• Crying in H Mart

  a Memoir

  Zauner, Michelle

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  February theme: A book that makes your heart skip a beat

• Hair for Men

  Winters, Michelle

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  March theme: A book that makes you laugh out loud

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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  April theme: A book published at least 25 years ago

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  May theme: A book with extraordinary or magic elements

• Universality

  Brown, Natasha

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  June theme: A book that explores identity and acceptance

• Station Eleven

  Mandel, Emily St. John

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  July theme: A book with a number in the title

• Night

  Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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  August theme: A book about a real person or event

• If the Dead Belong Here

  Faust, Carson

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  September theme: A book by an Indigenous author

• The Paris Library

  Skeslien Charles, Janet

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  October theme: A book that features a library

• King Sorrow

  Hill, Joe

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  November theme: A book that sends shivers down your spine

• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda

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  December theme: An old favourite or a new discovery

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