Life-Changing
The book with the highest average rating, recommended by this person.
(Answer should include title and person)
What is "Piranesi", recommended by Laura?
This is the book with the most DNFs - four - recommended by this person.
(Answer should include title and person)
What is "Significant Figures", recommended by Gabbi?
An object in "In Watermelon Sugar" that changes color every day, creating different colored watermelons and different atmospheres.
What is the sun?
The names given to the Native American vampire central to the story "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter".
(List at least one)
What are "Weasel Plume", "Good Stab", "Takes No Scalps", "Fullblood", "Blackie", "Bear Sleep", "Bear Dreamer", and "Tender of the Dead"?
The hobby taken up by Mabel as she adjusts to life in the Alaskan wilderness; this hobby allows her to connect with her sister, who lives far away in the lower 48.
What is "painting"?
In "Happy City", mayor Enrique Penalosa eliminated deaths from a certain cause in his city for an entire day by implementing this.
What is the "Day Without Cars"?
The two later books in an incest-ridden trilogy about gods, magic, social status, and power.
(Name both titles)
What are "The Broken Kingdoms" and "The Kingdom of Gods"?
This anthropomorphic ingredient is used as a weapon in "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking".
(Name and type of ingredient)
Who is "Bob", the aggressive sourdough starter?
This is the name of the skeleton construct Viv and Fern find damaged and washed ashore in "Bookshops and Bonedust".
Who is "Satchel"?
The reason Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret move into a modest cottage in Devonshire in "Sense and Sensibility".
What is the death of Mr. Dashwood (the husband and father of the main characters), who left his wife and three daughters with very little money?
Having recommended the books with the lowest cumulative ratings (2.85/5), Gabbi has recommended only two books with averages of 4/5 or higher, including these titles.
(List one or more)
What are "Homegoing" and "The Husbands"?
The book with the lowest average rating, recommended by this person.
(Answer should include title and person)
What is Kate's recommendation, "The People We Keep"?
The method by which the Wayfarer, the ship central to "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", travels through space.
What are "wormholes", punching hyperspace shortcuts through the galaxy?
The river god associated with the Zambezi River, which narrator Bridget Crocker worked on as a white water tour guide.
Who is "Nyaminyami" (or "Nyami Nyami")?
Regan's hobby or obsession in "Alone With You in the Ether" - ostensibly very different from Aldo's obsessions of math, hexagons, and bees.
What is "painting" or "art"?
In our first book club book ever, "Going Postal", character Stanley has a vast collection of these.
What are "pins"?
The occupations held by the author of "When Santa Was a Shaman".
(List one or more)
What is "a Dutch war hero", "a cinematographer", and "a script writer for history movies"?
The term is "bụi đời", often translated as "dust of life".
(Provide the definition)
What are mixed-race individuals, especially those born to Vietnamese mothers and American servicemen abandoned after the Vietnam War, called?
The main characters of "The Secret History", who take (or teach) ancient Greek Classics classes at Hampden College in Vermont.
(Name at least two)
Who are Richard, Henry, Edmund "Bunny", Charles, Camilla, Francis, and Julian?
The crime for which H, last son of Anna and Kojo, is sentenced to work in a coal mine for ten years in "Homegoing".
What is "wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman"?
With the lowest average rating given to books (2.63/5), Nick has awarded only three 5/5 ratings, including these titles.
(List all three)
(Nick may not answer this question)
What are "This is How You Lose the Time War", "Less", and "The Husbands"?
The food served in "The Dinner" by Herman Koch.
(List at least two foods served in the book)
What are "Olives", "Crayfish", "Chantrelles", "Lambs-neck sweetbread", "Oysters", "Vitello tomato", "Grapes", "Guinea fowl", "Tournedos", "Lasagna", "Blackberry parfait", "Warm goat cheese", "Dame blanche (Vanilla ice cream)", "Grappa", "espesso", and a "cheese plate"?
In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Macondo is founded upon this vision by one of the main characters.
(Name the character and the vision)
What is Jose Arcadio Buendia's dreams of "a city of mirrors"?
Medusa's two sisters, who provide alternating point-of-view narrators throughout the book "Medusa's Sisters".
(Name both)
Who are "Stheno" and "Euryale"?
Lauren takes a plane to this location to visit someone she has never met before (in this dimension) in "The Husbands".
(City, name, occupation)
What is "Denver, Colorado" to visit "Carter", a "real estate agent"?