Results: Have You Read These? Weeks 9 to 15
Published on 01/11/2025
It’s time for the 2025 B&N Book Challenge! Every year Barnes & Noble posts their challenge to help get us reading, and this year, they are making it a little easier by giving everyone four books per week to choose from. This year, they're also grouping the books into themes, while offering four titles in each theme to choose from.
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The books for week 9 are about Pioneering, in one way or another. Which of these have you read or would like to?
The Martian By Andy Weir
6%
136 votes
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel
7%
152 votes
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House Series: Classic Stories #1) By Laura Ingalls Wilder
19%
403 votes
The Seed Keeper: A Novel By Diane Wilson
6%
122 votes
None
68%
1436 votes
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2.
Week 10 offers books that are Devastating (yes, you are almost guaranteed to cry). Which of these books have you read or want to?
Circe By Madeline Miller
4%
78 votes
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano
9%
190 votes
The Fault in Our Stars By John Green
11%
241 votes
Sophie's Choice By William Styron
12%
259 votes
None
72%
1520 votes
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3.
Week 11 offerings are all Memoirs. How many of these have you read or want to?
Lovely One: A Memoir By Ketanji Brown Jackson
6%
132 votes
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear By Junji Ito
6%
127 votes
What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts) By Stanley Tucci
9%
180 votes
Connie: A Memoir By Connie Chung
5%
113 votes
None
80%
1679 votes
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4.
For week 12, all the books suggested are Award Winners. Which have you read or want to read?
Sing, Unburied, Sing (National Book Award Winner) By Jesmyn Ward
4%
85 votes
The Sympathizer (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Viet Thanh Nguyen
7%
148 votes
The Color Purple (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) By Alice Walker
18%
373 votes
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (National Book Award Winner) By Jason De León
5%
111 votes
None
73%
1524 votes
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5.
Week 13 books are grouped under the intriguing umbrella of Avoided. I would suggest these books are to be read, and not avoided. Which have you read or want to?
The MANIAC By Benjamín Labatut
5%
95 votes
To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Harper Lee
34%
704 votes
Wicked Collector's Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West By Gregory Maguire
8%
167 votes
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
15%
325 votes
None
56%
1168 votes
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6.
For week 14, B&N suggests these books, that touch of STEM. Which have you read or want to read?
Lessons in Chemistry Special Edition By Bonnie Garmus
6%
122 votes
A Rover's Story By Jasmine Warga
6%
120 votes
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry By Neil deGrasse Tyson
8%
174 votes
The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang
5%
101 votes
None
81%
1691 votes
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7.
Week 15 books all are Historical books. Which have you read or want to read?
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had By Helen Rappaport
5%
110 votes
Roots: The Saga of an American Family By Alex Haley
17%
355 votes
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King By Dan Jones
9%
190 votes
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague By Geraldine Brooks
7%
148 votes
None
72%
1504 votes
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