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Omaha Reading Challenge 2022: Read a Book Mentioned on The Book Drop Podcast

In April 2020, OPL launched its very own podcast: The Book Drop! Each week, OPL staff share their favorite reads and explore topics related to our community, libraries and the joy of reading. Each episode is accompanied by a resource list of all the books and media mentioned. Listen to an episode at omahalibrary.org/the-book-drop or on your favorite podcast app! OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop podcast" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

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  • The Book Drop is a weekly podcast from Omaha Public Library that explores topics related to our community, libraries and the joy of reading. Listen in as a team of OPL staff offers up reading suggestions, chats with guests and occasionally…
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  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — FICTION Andrews 2021
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2021. — FICTION Kawakami 2021
  • ¡Hola Papi!

    How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

    Brammer, John Paul, 1991-
    Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — B Brammer 2021
  • Chatter

    the Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

    Kross, Ethan,
    BookNew York : Crown, [2021] — 158.1 Kross 2021
  • The Jakarta Method

    Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

    Bevins, Vincent,
    BookNew York, NY : PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group, [2020] — 327.73 Bevins 2020
  • BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021] — FICTION Feito 2021
  • BookPortland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2017. — 811 Pico 2017
  • BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — FICTION Danforth 2020
  • BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — B Brunson 2021
  • Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend

    Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump

    Philippe, Ben,
    BookNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — B Philippe 2021
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021] — FICTION Nkweti 2021
  • BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — FICTION Alam 2020
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2020. — 811 Smith 2020
  • Modern Love

    True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

    BookNew York : Broadway Books, 2019. — 808.84 Modern 2019