Open Books Challenge 2026: About a Missing Person or Object

The Open Books Reading Challenge is a year-long reading challenge for people interested in pushing the boundaries of their reading. For full details of the program, please check-out our page at: https://www.rplmn.org/books-more/discover-more/open-books-reading-challenge

These are some ideas that fit the 2026 category "About a missing person or object."

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Updated December 31, 2025
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The boy from the woods
Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
THE LATEST BOOK FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HIT NETFLIX DRAMAS THE STRANGER AND THE WOODS, described by Dan Brown as ''the modern master of the hook and twist'' ''I read The Boy From The Woods. I...
The girl who was taken
Donlea, Charlie
Paper Book
If you loved THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, don't miss this sensational suspense thriller, that will keep you guessing to the very end . . . Her truth is only half the story . . . Megan McDonald is a high school senior when she disappears from the small town of Emerson Bay. Miraculously, after...
Find her
Gardner, Lisa
Paper Book
InvestiGators
Green, John Patrick
Paper Book
"When I'm faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren't enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York Times With more than four million copies in...
The lost man
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." --Stephen King Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harper...
Keeper of lost things, the
Hogan, Ruth
Paper Book
*THE PERFECT UP-LIT SUMMER READ, RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF READERS* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 'One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don't lose it. Keep it' Richard & Judy<...
Then she was gone
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author A LibraryReads Pick Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar. The unanswered questions she's tried so hard to put to rest begin to haunt Laurel anew...
All the missing girls
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
The memory police
Ogawa, Yo ko
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE** 'A masterpiece' GuardianDiscover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the Entertainment Weekly 'Quarantine Book Club'.Hat, ribbon, bird,...
The President is missing
Patterson, James
Paper Book
'The dream team delivers big time ... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee Child ________________________________ The President is Missing. The world is in shock. ...
Three women disappear
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Sarah, his personal chef Anna, his wife Serena, his maid Mob accountant Anthony Costello has a talent for manipulating both numbers and people. When he's found murdered in his own home, the three people who had most reason to want him dead are missing....
Life or death
Robotham, Michael
Paper Book
The lovely bones
Sebold, Alice
Paper Book
A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have...
The hundred lies of Lizzie Lovett
Sedoti, Chelsea
Paper Book
From bestselling author Chelsea Sedoti comes a comedic young adult mystery with "one of the most relatable characters in recent young adult literature" (Book Page), perfect for fans of John Green and Jandy Nelson. Hawthorn Creely's not one to get involved in other people's business. But a missing...
Where'd you go, Bernadette
Semple, Maria
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction Now a major motion picture, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup 'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' RED...
Pretty girls
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
The compelling new standalone novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Unseen and Cop Town. With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can't help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared twenty years ago in a mystery that was never solved. But when Claire begins to learn the...

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