A book with a character who has a unique hobby or profession

Between the Lines 2025 Reading Challenge Book Prompt #1

Updated January 11, 2025
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American Dirt
Cummins, Jeanine.
Paper Book
**Jeanine Cummins' new novel Speak to Me of Home is available to pre-order now** 'Heartstopping... doesn't let up... you will urge them on, fists clenched' The Times An extraordinary story of the lengths a mother will go to to save her son,...
The cartographers : a novel
Shepherd, Peng
Paper Book
'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice 'A story about magical maps that lead to your heart's desire [and] the people who would do anything to find them ... A vastly rich experience...
The collected regrets of Clover
Brammer, Mikki
Paper Book
Clover Brooks has forgotten how to live. It might be because she spends her time caring for people in their final days, working as a death doula in New York City. Or it might be because she has a regret of her own - one she can't bring herself to let go of. ...
Crime scene a novel
Kellerman, Jonathan
Paper Book
The demon crown
Rollins, James
Paper Book
"Bone-chilling." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "One of the best in the series." -Booklist (Starred Review) To save mankind's future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil's bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this...
First lie wins
Elston, Ashley
Paper Book
🔥 Don't be the last to discover the twist that a million readers didn't see coming 🔥 The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month, soon to become a major TV series. _______________ You meet a stranger at a party. She looks like...
Ghost music : a novel
Yu, An
Paper Book
For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to...
The henna artist
Joshi, Alka
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK "Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."--Reese Witherspoon Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle...
Killers of a certain age
Raybourn, Deanna
Paper Book
Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. But now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates their real-world...
The light between oceans : a novel
Stedman, M. L.
Paper Book
The global bestselling debut, now a word-of-mouth classic - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who face a life-changing moral dilemma when a baby in a boat washes up on their island. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2.3 million copies sold
Love radio
LaDelle, Ebony
Paper Book
"LOVE RADIO is mega swoonworthy, effortlessly cool, and full of heart. Turn this one all the way up." Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE and ONE LAST STOP"Prepare to swoon, LOVE RADIO gives voice to some of the sweetest hopes and the hardest truths. Readers...
The Midnight Library
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
* New novel THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE available in paperback now * THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon,...
A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Audiobook
Roller girl
Jamieson, Victoria
Paper Book
Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for a summer camp, she's sure Nicole will be right by her side - until Nicole signs up for ballet camp instead, with Astrid's biggest rival. So begins the hardest summer of...
State of wonder
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012There were people on the banks of the river.Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is...
The taxidermist's daughter
Mosse, Kate
Paper Book
Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to walk. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At twenty...

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