2020 JUNE 2020 Adaptations - CH Booth Library

2020
              Reading Challenge for Adults
              JUNE 2020
               Adaptations

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Your challenge for June: Read a book that was adapted
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2020
Reading Challenge for Adults
                Suggested Reading List*
* This list is for ideas only. Chosen book should fit the theme, but no specific titles are required to
participate in the reading challenge. Please enjoy!

June: Adaptations

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer
guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting
influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she
hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced
to a rich and scheming family that strongly opposes their son's relationship
with an American girl.

Normal People by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a
lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year
at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but
self-destructive.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman
Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and
becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating
consequences for both families.

Annotations from Library Aware

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London's
postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and
the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into
young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England. Readers young and
old will fall in love with this beloved classic, at once a lively portrait of
nineteenth-century family life and a feminist novel about young women
defying society's expectations.

Lion/A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Describes how the author was accidentally separated from his family and
home in India as a child, how he survived as an orphan in Kolkata, his
adoption by an Australian family, and his search for his biological family as
an adult.

Arrival (and other stories) by Ted Chiang
A collection of science fiction short stories, including "Story of Your Life," in
which a linguist's insight into the language of alien lifeforms on Earth and its
nonlinear structure help her deal with her divorce and death of her
daughter.

Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
Relates how African American detective Ron Stallworth went undercover to
investigate the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs in 1978, describing how he
disrupted Klan activities and exposed white supremacists in the military
during the months-long investigation

The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Relates the story behind the founding of Facebook by Harvard University
undergraduates, and describes how conflicting ideas for the future of the
site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo
Saverin. Inspiration for "The Social Network."
Annotations from Library Aware.

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Trapped in a dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer
Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters—and
falls in love with—Carol Aird, a suburban housewife in the midst of a
divorce.
Inspiration for the movie "Carol."

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder
hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme
devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of
the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could
destroy the plot. Inspiration for the movie "The Handmaiden."

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's
African-American women mathematicians to America's space program,
describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white
counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic
novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired
guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill
Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
The founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain tells of his early business
ventures and his success in developing a single restaurant in Illinois into an
international operation. Inspiration for "The Founder."

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
On the eve of her husband's receipt of a prestigious literary award, Joan
Castleman, who has put her own writing ambitions on hold to support her
husband, evaluates her choices and decides to end the marriage

Annotations from Library Aware