Support Your Local Library

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62 participants (895 books)

10 Mar 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Libraries are the backbone of knowledge and key to preserving the integrity of humanity’s wisdom. Libraries provide free access to information and educational resources, promote literacy, preserve history, build community, and also offer a safe space for people to learn, explore, and connect with their local culture. Libraries act as a vital hub for knowledge and community engagement, regardless of socioeconomic background.
In order to preserve this vital service, they must be used.
For this challenge, I am proposing that we read 15 books from our libraries. 
Be it a physical paper book or an ebook from your library’s digital collection, or even an audiobook. Every book checked out signals that libraries are still relevant, still important, still necessary and useful. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Women Talking

Miriam Toews

240 pages • 2018 • 52 editions

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera

320 pages • 2021 • 30 editions

fiction middle grade science fiction adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Unraveling Oliver

Liz Nugent

6h 50m • 2013 • 35 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious medium-paced
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent

Lying in Wait

Liz Nugent

8h 36m • 2018 • 30 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
How Does that Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague

How Does that Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

Anna Montague

8h 58m • 2024 • 5 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ hopeful lighthearted slow-paced
Francine's Spectacular Crash and Burn by Renee Swindle

Francine's Spectacular Crash and Burn

Renee Swindle

320 pages • 2025 • 4 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful medium-paced
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Amgash #1

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

4h 11m • 2016 • 65 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Amgash #5

Tell Me Everything

Elizabeth Strout

326 pages • 2024 • 14 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

Douglas W. Tallamy

256 pages • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent

Little Cruelties

Liz Nugent

10h 36m • 2020 • 26 editions

fiction mystery thriller mysterious reflective fast-paced