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Participants may select any title that meets the category and program requirements. If you need help finding a title that meets your specific needs and wants, please contact the Meridian Library and staff will be happy to assist you.  \n0. Wild Card-Discard 1 category & replace with 1 of your own  \nChoose any one category to discard and replace with a book of your choosing. This is an optional category that will count toward your 50 books.  \n1. An Alex Award Winner  \nSuggestions:  \n●  Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (2021)  \n●  The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2021)  \n● A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher (2020)  \n●  Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2020)  \n●  The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (2019)  \n●  Roughneck by Jeff Lemire (2018)  \n●  In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero (2017)  \n●  In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang (2016)  \n●  Cinder by Marissa Meyer (2015)  \n●  El Deafo by Cece Bell (2014)  \nLooking for more suggestions? Check here for a list of all the award winners  \n2. A book from the bottom shelf/last page online  \n3. A book with a famous landmark in it  \nSuggestions:  \n● A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Susanne Joinson  \n●  Lonely Planet's Wonders ofthe World : 101 Great Sights by Oliver Berry and Joe Bindloss  \n●  1636 : Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint and Griffin Barber  \n●  Carte Blanche: 007: the New James Bond Novel by Jeffery Deaver  \n●  Meet Me in Atlantis : My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City by Mark Adams  \n●  Heirs of the Motherland by Judith Pella  \n●  Greek to Me : Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris  \n●  Humankind : a Hopeful History by Rutger Bregmenn  \n● A Deadly Edition by Victoria Gilbert  \n● Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926 : From Nature to Architecture by Maria Antonietta Crippa  \n4. A book with a verb in the title  \nSuggestions:  \n●  The Night Swim by Megan Goldin  \n●  Clock Dance by Anne Tyler  \n●  Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward  \n●  The Ugly Cry : a Memoir by Danielle Henderson  \n●  Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  \n●  To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano  \n●  When You Read This by Mary Adkins  \n●  When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole  \n●  Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam  \n●  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini  \n5. A book by an author whose name has a color in it  \nSuggestions:  \n●  Paper Towns by John Green  \n●  The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan  \n●  The Number of Love by Roseanna White  \n●  Cleo: The Cat Who Mended a Family by Helen Brown  \n●  The Promise of Palm Grove by Shelley Shepherd Gray  \n● All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood  \n●  Lord of the Flies by William Golding  \n●  Wolf on a String by Benjamin Black  \n●  Mary Coin by Melissa Silver  \n●  Sister Stardust by Jane Green  \n6. A book that features music or a musician  \nSuggestions:  \n●  The Beautiful Ones by Prince  \n●  Just Kids by Patti Smith  \n●  They Can ’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib  \n●  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett  \n●  The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu  \n●  Face It by Debbie Harry  \n●  High School by Sara Quin and Tegan Quin  \n●  IAm Brian Wilson by Brian Wilson  \n●  Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen  \n●  How Music Works by David Byrne  \n7. A book you are passionate about  \n8. A book with gemstones or jewelry in it  \nSuggestions:  \n●  Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan  \n●  The Lost Jewels by Kristy Manning  \n●  Cartier's Hope by M. J. Rose  \n●  The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson  \n●  Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman  \n●  The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden  \n●  The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith  \n●  Black Opal by Victoria Holt  \n●  The Curiosity Keeper by Sarah E. Ladd  \n●  Chasing the Thrill by Daniel Barbarisi  \n9. 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