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May 2025 – A book with a first sentence of eight words or less

Here are some title suggestions based on a book about books bookstores, or libraries to help you get started with the May challenge!

Suggested TitlesCall Number
The AlchemistFIC/COELHO
All the Light We Cannot see by Anthony DoerrFIC/DOERR
Blue Sisters by Coco MellorsFIC/MELLORS, LP/MEL
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth OzekiFIC/OZEKI
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke611.98/RADK
Catch 22 by Joseph HellerPB/HEL
Christmas Carol by Charles DickensYA/DICKENS
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerFIC/WALKER
Colored Television by Danzy SennaFIC/SENNA, LP/SEN
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgFIC/NG
From Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyLP363.75/DOUG
The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonFIC/LAWHON
Full Speed to Crash Landing by Beth RevisSCIENCE FICTION/REVIS
Funny Story by Emily HenryFIC/HENRY
The God of the Woods by Liz MooreFIC/MOORE, LP/MOO
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle PorterFIC/PORTER
Horse by Geraldine BrooksFIC/BROOKS, LP/BRO
I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueFIC/SUE
Intermezzo by Sally RooneyFIC/ROONEY, LP/ROO
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabFANTASY/SCHWAB, LP/SCH
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonFIC/ELLISON
The Martian by Andy WeirSCIENCE FICTION/WEIR
Moby Dick by Herman MelvilleBOCD/MEL
Night Circus by Erin MorgensternFIC/MORGENSTERN
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFIC/VUONG
The Overstory by Richard PowersFIC/POWERS
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerSCIENCE FICTION/BUTLER
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley HellerFIC/HELLER, LP/HEL, BOCD/HELLER
Paradise by Toni MorrisonFIC/MORRISON
People You Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryFIC/HENRY
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy ChevalierFIC/CHEVALIER
A Shore Thing by Joanna LowellFIC/LOWELL
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutYA/VONNEGUT, FIC/VONNEGUT
State of Paradise by Laura Van den BergFIC/VAN DEN BERG
Stranger by Albert CamusFIC/CAMUS
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. HarrowFANTASY/HARROW
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren GroffFIC/GROFF, BOCD/GROFF
What My Bones Know by Stephanie FooBIOGRAPHY/FOO
Books in the Merrimack Valley Consortium
Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa
The Bone Ships by RJ Baker
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Crow Road by Iain Banks
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Idol Burning by Rin Usami
In Other Lands by Sarah Reese Brennan
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
McClue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Peter Pan by J M Barrie
A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Spear by Nicola Griffith
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

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