10,000 Experiences - Staff Recommendations

Looking for help finishing your 10,000 Experiences summer reading challenges? Check out these recommendation from Washington County staff.

Updated May 27, 2025
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Margo's got money troubles
Thorpe, Rufi
Paper Book
Highway thirteen : stories
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction Short-listed for the the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction ...
Greta & Valdin
Reilly, Rebecca K.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime'...
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
Nam-Joo, Cho
Paper Book
The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and...
The no-show
O'Leary, Beth
Paper Book
Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man in this smart new rom-com by Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare. Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree...
Black sheep
Harrison, Rachel
Paper Book
Nobody has a 'normal family', but Vesper Wright's is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back - mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she could never return. But then the envelope arrives on her doorstep....
Red rabbit
Grecian, Alex
Paper Book
"Impossible to put down." --Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts--where death is always just around the bend--in this new supernatural horror by...
The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new...
Mapping the Interior
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
A USA Today bestseller * Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction Stephen Graham Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, brings readers on a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's...
The Wren in the Holly Library
Linde, K A.
Paper Book
Set in an alternate day New York filled with monsters, The Wren in the Holly Library is a dark, spicy urban fantasy loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast - perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Leigh Bardugo. She stole from a monster . . . now...

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