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February 2024 Keyword Challenge

FEBRUARY 2024 KEYWORDS

Heir, Night, Bride, Down, Women, Hand, Teach, Guest

This challenge was created in 2013 by Kim of @chapter_adventure and Tanya of Girlxoxo.com.  Find more challenges at https://www.chapteradventure.com/  

Your task is simple. Read a book each month with one of the keywords in the title. "Bonus points" if you find a title that has more than one of the month's keywords.

We love this challenge because it's easy to find books to fulfill the monthly keyword requirement and we can create wonderfully eclectic booklists!  You are sure to read out of your comfort zone if you conquer this task each month

Get started with our librarian-curated list of books where you'll find both nonfiction and novels as well as new bestsellers and older well-reviewed books. No worries if you don't like our suggestions. Simply use one of the keywords to find matching titles in the BCCLS catalog or the new BCCLS catalog (in testing right now!)


And the Bride Closed the Door

by Ronit Matalon


Binge times : inside Hollywood's furious billion-dollar battle to take down Netflix

by Dade Hayes


Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon

by Melissa Sevigny




Bright Young Women

by Jessica Knoll


The child is the teacher : a life of Maria Montessori

by Cristina De Stefano


The Connellys of County Down

by Tracey Lange


The Darkling Bride

by Laura Andersen


A Day of Fallen Night

by Samantha Shannon


Down and out in paradise : the life of Anthony Bourdain

by Charles Leerhsen


The Friday Night Club

by Sofia Lundberg


Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott


Good Night Irene

by Luis Alberto Urrea




A Guest at the Feast

by Colm Toibin






The Heir Affair

by Heather Cocks




The heiress : the revelations of Anne de Bourgh

by Molly Greeley


The Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies

by Laura Thompson


It All Comes Down to This

by Therese Fowler


The Italian Teacher

by Tom Rachman


The Kennedy heirs

by J Randy Taraborrelli


Lady Tan's Circle of Women

by Lisa See


Lay Your Body Down

by Amy Suiter Clarke


The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula Le Guin


Mother-Daughter Murder Night

by Nina Simon


Night Will Find You

by Julia Heaberlin


The Object at Hand

by Beth Py-Lieberman


Of orcas and men : what killer whales can teach us

by David Neiwert






Reading with Patrick : a teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship

by Michelle Kuo


Secondhand : travels in the new global garage sale

by Adam Minter


The sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA

by Liza Mundy


Take My Hand

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez


The Teacher of Warsaw

by Mario Escobar


An Unwanted Guest

by Shari Lapena


The Vanished Bride

by Bella Ellis