Adult Reading Challenge Community Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. 39 women live imprisoned underground in a cage, until the 40th woman reveals herself to be their key to escape. (HINT: Battle of the Books read)
  2. 6. Billy-Ray Belcourt examines everyday life through an anthropological lens. (HINT: ‘Poetry Collection’)
  3. 9. Leading biology researcher and member of the Potawatomi nation attempts to relate to the environment beyond scientific methodology. (HINT: ‘Set in Nature’)
  4. 10. Japanese horror manga about a town haunted by spirals. (HINT: ‘Graphic Novel’)
  5. 14. Ali Hazelwood’s romance novel about a Ph.D. candidate and a hotshot professor (HINT: ‘Book About STEM’)
Down
  1. 1. Helen Knott’s memoir about the loss of her mother and grandmother within the same six months. (HINT: ‘Indigenous Author’)
  2. 2. A book about a pirate crew in the Indian Ocean in the 12th Century (HINT, ‘Has A Map’)
  3. 4. Collection of breakup poems about a sad clown. (HINT: ‘Local Author’)
  4. 5. An Indigenous woman’s memoir about her family history and generational abuse. (HINT: Battle of the Books read)
  5. 7. Steamy hockey romance with an infamous audiobook narrator—or maybe listeners just want Hudson and Connor. (HINT: ‘Audiobook’)
  6. 8. Izzy dreads her family’s Chinese New Year party... until her grandmother kisses a woman in front of everyone. (HINT: Battle of the Books read)
  7. 11. A secretary in Shanghai, 1911 learns the manor she works at has a dark past. (HINT: Battle of the Books read)
  8. 12. Catherine Herandez’s novel about a Filipina film editor whose remembers the Scarborough Stalker that terrorized her childhood. (HINT: ‘Set in Ontario’)
  9. 13. Canisia Lubrin’s debut fiction that explores and dismantles the set of historical decrees by King Louis XIV of France of the same name. (HINT: ‘Black Author’)