Read Harder Book Group Recap: October

October was our second month of Read Harder Book groups, and thanks to our sponsor Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira, some lucky attendees walked away with free books! Mark your calendars for November, and take a look below at some of the books the Riot community is reading.

Chicago:

• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
• Nevada, Imogen Binnie
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, Lucy Worsley
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
• Alphabet, Kathy Page
• Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
• H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
• A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel, John Irving
• The Shore: A Novel, Sara Taylor
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel, Mohsin Hamid
• Life After Life: A Novel, Kate Atkinson
• Star of the Sea, Joseph O’Connor
• Dark Lies the Island: Stories, Kevin Barry
• The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two, Elena Ferrante
• The Hummingbird: A Novel, Stephen Kiernan
• Barbara the Slut and Other People, Lauren Holmes
• Fates and Furies: A Novel, Lauren Groff’
• The Gap of Time: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare), Jeanette Winterson

New York

• Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016)
• Sacred Games: A Novel, Vikram Chandra
• If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo (May 2016)
• Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp, Herman Hesse
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Sterling Unabridged Classics), Jules Verne
• L’Etranger (French Edition), Albert Camus
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel, Salman Rushdie
• The New Gods
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, Jared Diamond
• The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
• A Little Life: A Novel, Hanya Yanagihara
• Ring (Ring Series, Book 1), Koji Suzuki
• Smaller and Smaller Circles, F.H. Batacan
• My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind, Scott Stossel
• You’re Fine, Gina Tron
• M Train, Patti Smith
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics), Joan Didion
• Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander), Diana Gabaldon
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (audio)
• Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest, Ginger Adams Otis
• Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir, Alan Cumming (audio)
• Passing
• And the Birds Rained Down, Jocelyn Saucier
• The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman
• We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel, Matthew Thomas

Boston

• Daughters unto Devils , Amy Lukavics
• Fates and Furies: A Novel, Lauren Groff
• Pretty Girls: A Novel, Karin Slaughter
• Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral, Mary Doria Russell
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
• The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• A Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock
• Tiger Lily, Jody Lynn Anderson
• Peter Pan: Centennial Edition (Signet Classics), J. M. Barrie

Philadelphia

• Dreamstrider, Lindsay Smith
• Room: A Novel, Emma Donoghue
• Wool, Hugh Howey
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
• NYou’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, Felicia Day
• None of the Above, I.W. Gregorio
• The Dwelling: A Novel, Susie Moloney
• The House, Christina Lauren
• Neverwhere: A Novel, Neil Gaiman
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
• The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
• The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
• More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
• Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay
• The Book of Disquiet , Fernando Pessoa
• Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy), Pat Barker
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
• Lumberjanes Vol. 1,  Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, Shannon Watters
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
• Armada: A Novel, Ernest Cline
• Ready Player One: A Novel, Ernest Cline
• The Storyspinner (The Keepers’ Chronicles), Becky Wallace
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James
• The Children of Men, P.D. James
• We Are Water: A Novel (P.S.), Wally Lamb
• She’s Come Undone (Oprah’s Book Club), Wally Lamb
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
• If I Stay, Gayle Forman
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• A Madness So Discreet, Mindy McGinnis
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Fair Coin, E.C. Myers
• Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book No. 1), Brandon Sanderson (audio)
• Steelheart (The Reckoners), Brandon Sanderson (audio)
• Throne of Glass, S.J. Maas (audio)

Houston

• Hunting and Gathering, Anna Gavalda
• Moving Through The Streets, Joseph Veramu
• The Proud Breed, Celeste De Blasis
• The Son, Philipp Meyer
• Huntress (A Grace Murphy Novel Book 1), Nicole Hamlett
• Gil’s All Fright Diner, A. Lee Martinez
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty
• Odd Thomas series, Dean Koontz
• Ticktock: A Novel, Dean Koontz
• Pym: A Novel, Mat Johnson
• The Intuitionist: A Novel, Colson Whitehead
• Geek Love: A Novel, Katherine Dunn
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Los Angeles

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Erik Larson
• OOne Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• The House of the Spirits: A Novel, Isabel Allende
• The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
• The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
• The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster

Glasgow

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, Susanna Clarke
• The Neopolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante
• Janice Galloway’s works in general
• Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson
• Courtney Milan’s works in general
• Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed
• 750 Years in Paris, Vincent Mahé
• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edward de Waal