Hello Friends! We are back at it with more bookish thoughts! This semester I'm taking INFO 5410- Adult Materials and Reading Interests. As part of this course, we have 30 prompts to read/watch/listen to. This will be a running list that will link you to the blog posts for each of the prompts. Come along for the ride!
Genres / Formats / Characteristics
Read/listen/watch one item from each of the following:
1. Genre - Literary Fiction: The Great Gatsby
2. Genre - Realistic/Contemporary Fiction (includes Adrenaline & Relationship): Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
3. Genre - Historical Fiction: America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
4. Genre - Western: The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour
5. Genre - Romance: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
6. Genre - Mystery:
7. Genre - Psychological Suspense:The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8. Genre - Horror:Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
9. Genre - Fantasy: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
10. Genre - Science Fiction:
11. Genre - Science, Math, and/or Nature: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
12. Genre - True Crime: Zodiac
13. Genre - Travel: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
14. Genre - True Adventure:Wild: From lost to found on the pacific crest trail by Cheryl Strayed
15. Genre - History: The Boys on the Boat
16. Genre - Memoir: The Happiest Man on Earth: the Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
17. Genre - Biography: A beautiful mind
18. Genre - Cooking or Food: Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, and Unlikely Family and the American Dream by Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning and Lyn Nguyen
19. Genre - Instructional (i.e., learn a skill): Taylor Swift Crochet
20. Genre - Reference (e.g., encyclopedia, lists, etc.): Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
21. Characteristic - Originally written and published in a non-English language-dominant
country (i.e., international book translated into English):My friends
22. Characteristic - Published before 1970: animal farm
23. Characteristic - Published after 2000: rooster bar
24. Characteristic - Written by an author with and featuring a main character from an
underrepresented identity (i.e., LGBTQ, female, disabled, or a person of color):The Bones Beneath My Skin
25. Format - Graphic Novel: Batman
26. Format - E-Book:
27. Format - Audiobook: The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison
28. Format - Podcast (1 item only; 2 episodes minimum): Dorky, Geeky, Nerdy Trivia Podcast by Brian Rollins
29. Format - Television Series (1 item only; 2 episodes minimum):
30. Format - Movie (1 item only):
Extra Credit Formats
• Collection of Essays or Short Stories (1 item only):
• Poetry Collection (1 item only):
• YouTube Series (1 item only; 2 videos minimum): Critical Role
• Video Game (rated teen or mature; 1 item only):Borderlands
• App for Leisure/Fun (1 item only):
• App for Tasks or Information (1 item only):
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