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Summer 2025 Reading Road Trip

Rules and recommendations for our Summer 2025 reading event!

7. Mishap - B. Lost!

Beautiful Ugly

An author's wife disappears.  After a year of grief and desperation, he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like her.

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Implementing different techniques and strategies into your workflow to decrease stress, increase work-life balance, and increase product quality levels over long periods of time.

The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the amazon

Tells the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett's obsessive quest for a lost civilization in the Amazon jungle, and Grann's own journey to uncover what happened to Fawcett 80 years later.

Our Missing Hearts

A dystopian novel set in a near-future United States where an economic crisis and new law called PACT lead to a state of fear and surveillance.

The Berry Pickers

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

The God of the Woods

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

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7. Mishap - B. Lost!

The seventh decision on your road trip is what mishap you'll experience along the way!  You'll have three road trip mishaps to choose from, and the second choice you can make getting Lost along the way!

Complete the Lost! choice by reading any title that features a lost or missing theme in any capacity, at any point in the story and recording the title on your Road Trip tracking sheet. 

There are lots of ways to interpret this choice, so feel free to get creative!   Some interpretations could include:

  • the word Lost or Missing in the Book Title
  • featuring a Character that is Lost or Goes Missing (nonfiction or fiction)
  • featuring a Lost or Missing Place, Object, Person, Pet, etc. (nonfiction or fiction)
  • featuring a feeling of being Lost or Missing Out on Something

 

You can use any title that you’d like, but here are some suggestions to complete the Lost choice.

 

The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs: a new history of their lost world by Stephen Brusatte (Print

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel (I-Share Print

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Print)

Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Print) (Libby Audio)

Holly: a novel by Stephen King (Print)

The City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (Print) (Libby Audio)

The Soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music by Steve Lopez (I-Share Print)

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (Print)

I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll (Print)

Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (Print)

 

Example by Example (I-Share Print) (I-Share Audio) (Libby eBook) (Libby Audio)

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