December
The Read More! Reading Challenge suggestions for the month of December are to read an award-winning book or to read a book published in 2023!
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Horror
2021 Shirley Jackson Award winner
Protected by horror movies — especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Coming-of-age stories
2022 National Book Award winner
Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for transcendence that culminates in a shocking act of violence.
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Realistic fiction
2022 National Book Award winner
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Thrillers and suspense
2022 Michael L. Printz Award winner
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.