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Make Time for Grownup Books

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2018

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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Anne Tyler

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2018 Publication Dates

Audience is grownups

We represent ourselves!

This is NOT a Best Books list

We are serial abandoners

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Grownup books have grownup problems

We need to practice what it is like to struggle with a text

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Eloquent Rage:

A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By Brittney Cooper

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You Think It,

I’ll Say It

By Curtis Sittenfeld

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If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi

By Neel Patel

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Calypso

By David Sedaris

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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

By Dolly Chugh

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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

By Cecile Richards with Lauren Peterson

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts

By Brené Brown

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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By Maxwell King

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Educated: A Memoir

By Tara Westover

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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

By Lawrence Wright

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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

By Keith O’Brien

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The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

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The Immortalists

By Chloe Benjamin

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The Female Persuasion

By Meg Wolizer

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An American Marriage

By Tayari Jones

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A Spark of Light

By Jodi Picoult

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America is Not the Heart

By Elaine Castillo

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Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens

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Clock Dance

By Anne Tyler

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White Houses

By Amy Bloom

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White Chrysanthemum

By Mary Lynn Bracht

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There There

By Tommy Orange

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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

By Sarah Smarsh

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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten American

By Sarah Kendzior

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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

By Rebecca Solnit

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My Sister, The Serial Killer

By Oyinkan Braithwait

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Becoming

By Michelle Obama

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Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

By Sara K. Ahmed

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Game Changer: Book Access by All Kids

By Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp

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Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School

By Carla Shalaby