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2026 DCL Reading Challenge: Author's Last Name is a First Name

What's in a name? Judging by this list, a lot of great reads! Get going.

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  • Win a $200 gift card to Shanahan's Steakhouse in this year's random prize drawing of challenge finishers! Read any of the titles on this list, or choose your own, for your chance to win.
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  • What is going wrong with the Barnes family? Their car business is going under, the straight-A teenage daughter is getting into trouble, and the son is planning to run away. This is family drama to the max.
    Book, 2023New York [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — MURRAY, P
  • Two journalists compete for the chance to write the biography of an aging heiress. Another winner for bestselling Henry!
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, [2025] — HENRY, E
  • Following “The Nightingale” and “The Four Winds,” Hannah’s latest centers on a young nurse whose life is changed by the Vietnam War.
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — HANNAH, K
  • Bradley’s clever debut features romance and cloak-and-dagger plotting within a British government experimental time travel ministry.
    Book, 2024New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. — BRADLEY, K
  • Francis's debut launches a romantasy trilogy with this tense foray into a dystopian future. Full of twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
    Book, 2025New York : Del Rey, [2025] — FRANCIS, D
  • What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
    Book, 2017New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] — 523.01 TYS
  • The first in the reliable Inspector Gamache series, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal.
    Book, 2008New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008. — PENNY, L
  • Born a Crime

    Stories From a South African Childhood

    Noah, Trevor, 1984-
    Born to a black African mother and a white Swedish father, Noah violated the Immorality Act of 1927, which outlawed interracial relationships, making for a fascinating and complex life story.
    Book, 2016New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2016. — B NOAH, T
  • This is the latest in the bestselling Murphy Shepherd series. Start with “The Water Keeper” to get the full backstory on this character and the interesting people he picks up along the way.
    Book, 2025Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2025] — MARTIN, C
  • Owen Michaels has disappeared, and all he left his wife is a note that says "protect her." That, and a duffel bag containing over half a million dollars in cash…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — DAVE, L