Reading Challenge 2021

The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Get Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Movie Tie-In (Paperback) by Agatha Christie and other crime/mystery fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

How To Alienate Friends & Avoid People: The Lazy Goth Method is a graphic novel that not only depicts the struggles of being a square peg in a round hole, but celebrates it. Our hero is on a continuous journey to figure out her role in every aspect of life. Be it at home, work, on the internet, in relationships, or in her own feelings of self-worth and identity, The Lazy Goth discovers that no matter what, she is "enough."

Get The Lazy Goth Method: How to Alienate Friends and Avoid People (Hardcover) by Molly Mercier and other illustrated humor books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚Slate‚Chronicle of Higher Education‚Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—“one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author

Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Get The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback) by Michelle Alexander and other reference books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Winner of the 2016 Financial Times Emerging Voices Award, and longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation.

Get Man Tiger: A Novel (Paperback) by Eka Kurniawan and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

An exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own—a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.

Love. Death. Revenge. These age-old tropes come to life as the semesters unfold. The threesome came to study writing, to be writers, and this is the story they’ve woven together: of friendship and passion, of competition and envy, of creativity as life and death. Now, they submit this story, We Wish You Luck, for your reading pleasure.

Get We Wish You Luck: A Novel (Hardcover) by Caroline Zancan and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A beautiful, immersive, fully illustrated edition of Neil Gaiman’s beloved #1 bestselling novel, featuring illustrations by Elise Hurst.

“They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .”

A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that nothing is as he remembered.

Get The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Illustrated Edition (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman and other Science Fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and their teens

Acclaimed parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. Now, with this revolutionary guide, they tackle the tough issues teens and their parents face today.

Get How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk (Paperback) by Adele Faber and other Parenting books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A New York Times Notable Book

The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives.

Get Missionaries, Export Edition (Paperback) by Phil Klay and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and the rest of the cast are captured in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton. The iconic text has been artfully distilled by Fred Fordham, who also adapted the graphic novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Blake Hazard, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter, contributes a personal introduction.

Get The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel (Hardcover) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Fordham, Aya Morton and other classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines

A gorgeous illustrated edition of the third book in the beloved A Song of Ice and Fire series, for fans of HBO's Game of Thrones.

A STORM OF SWORDS
A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK THREE
With a special foreword by Neil Gaiman

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. 

Get A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3, The Illustrated Edition (Hardcover) by George R. R. Martin and other science fiction and fantasy books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

From the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) novel.

Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired.

Get A Door in the Earth (Paperback) by Amy Waldman and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer—coming December 18, 2020!

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries.

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.

Get Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Paperback) by Agatha Christie and other crime and mystery books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the country into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers—her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and of course, love.

Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation—and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.

Get Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (Paperback) by Mira Jacob and other non-fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 immigrant women who have shaped, and will continue to shape, our world.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present, this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: some for new opportunities, some out of necessity.

Get Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World (Hardcover) by Elena Favilli and other  young adult books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.

Get A Promised Land  (Hardcover) by Barack Obama and other biography books online at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

When their catastrophic first meeting goes viral, social media becomes obsessed with their chemistry. The competition on the show is fierce…and so is the simmering desire between Ashna and Rico. Every minute they spend together rekindles feelings that pull them toward their disastrous past. Will letting go again be another recipe for heartbreak—or a recipe for persuasion…?

In Recipe for Persuasion, Sonali Dev once again takes readers on an unforgettable adventure in this fresh, fun, and enchanting romantic comedy.

Get Recipe for Persuasion, A Novel (Paperback) by Sonali Dev and other romance books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and the rest of the cast are captured in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton. The iconic text has been artfully distilled by Fred Fordham, who also adapted the graphic novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Get The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel (Paperback) by F Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Fordham, Aya Morton and other Independent graphic novel online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.

Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

Get How To Be An Antiracist (Hardcover) by Ibram X. Kendi and other History books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place.

Get A Deadly Education: Scholomance, Book 1, Export Edition (Paperback) by Naomi Novik and other Science Fiction books online and at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan--a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won't let her forget--well, she doesn't need a man to complete her.

Yet when a chance encounter with charming, wealthy entrepreneur Eric Deng offers her a glimpse of an exciting, limitless future, Andrea decides to give Mr. Right-for-her-family a chance.

Get  Last Tang Standing (Paperback) by Lauren Ho and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.