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11,315 pages read and 1,339 team points

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2,385 pts
(2,385 pages read)
  • Orbital

    By Samantha Harvey
    3 stars

    Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. During those 24 hours they observe 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over their silent blue planet, spinning past continents and cycling past seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans.

  • The rest of our lives

    By Ben Markovits
    3 stars

    When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned 18. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact.

  • Shuggie Bain

    By Douglas Stuart
    5 stars

    Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.

  • Butter

    By Asako Yukuzi
    4 stars

    Japanese novel about a female serial killer who seduces men with her cooking.

  • Strange Pictures

    By Uketsu
    5 stars

    Japanese mystery-horror novel, famous for its unique, integrated artwork—creepy drawings that are clues to solving interconnected, chilling mysteries, making the reader a detective piecing together a larger sinister truth from disturbing images and layered visuals.

  • Flashlight

    By Susan Choi
    5 stars

    A ten-year-old girl survives a mysterious night walk with her father, who vanishes near the sea. The story traces family secrets and grief across generations covering Japan, Korea and America.

  • Flesh

    By David Slazay
    4 stars

    Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize, focusing on a young Hungarian man's life and struggles in a globalized world, exploring themes of identity and trauma through spare, dialogue-heavy prose.

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