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Read Harder Book Group Recap: October

October was our second month of Read Harder Book groups; take a look at the books our members are discussing.

Jenn Northington Nov 3, 2015

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Jenn Northington

Director, Editorial Operations

Jenn Northington has worked in the publishing industry wearing various hats since 2004, including bookseller and events director, and is currently Director of Editorial Operations at Riot New Media Group. You can hear her on the SFF Yeah! podcast nerding out about sci-fi and fantasy. When she’s not working, she’s most likely gardening, running, or (obviously) reading. Find her on Tumblr at jennIRL and Instagram at iamjennIRL.

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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

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

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)

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

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

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