What are we reading?  June 2023 Monthly Book Selection *** Make your donation here! 

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Augustravaganza: Book Suggestions

This year Mocha Girls Read book club is doing a Book Bingo Reading Challenge.  There will be one bingo card from August 1, 2022, to August 30, 2022.  There is a total of 24 squares (1 Free Space) with each square containing a unique genre or description of a book to be read.  Once you fill one (1) line on the card you get a Bingo!  That is when you can come back here at the end of the month and enter the giveaway.

Here are some book suggestions to help you fill a few of the squares.  Click the covers to go to the book’s Amazon page.  Purchase the book or anything while you are there and a portion of your purchase goes to support the giveaways on this site.

Need a card. Click this one and hit print.

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Main character’s name is August

WONDER by R. J. Palacio

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.

MGR August’s Monthly Selection

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

“Wilkerson transports you across the decades and around the globe accompanied by complex, wonderfully drawn characters.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising

Banned Book

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this love story of shared humanity and history Hypable calls “an interconnecting web that will leave you emotionally exhausted and absolutely thrilled to have read something so beautiful and unique.” 

Best Seller

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

Manga or Graphic Novel

Good Girls Don’t Make History by Elizabeth Kiehner

History has rarely been told from a woman’s point of view. 
Good Girls Don’t Make History  is an important graphic novel that amplifies the voices of female legends from 1840 to the present day. 

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Mocha Girl Alysia

Founder at Mocha Girls Read
Founder of Mocha Girls Read book club. But basically, just another girl who loves to read and then read some more and wants to meet others like me. If you add a cup of green tea with lemon and honey I will be overjoyed.
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