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
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education

The Scholomance #1

Naomi Novik

320 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

Burn Our Bodies Down

Rory Power

343 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Tenant by Freida McFadden

The Tenant

Freida McFadden

8 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin

The Keeper of Hidden Books

Madeline Martin

10 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction historical hopeful sad medium-paced
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards!

Discworld #8

Terry Pratchett

13 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 1989

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

271 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife by Robert Garland

What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife

Robert Garland

8 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz #1

Heather Morris

288 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

Mark Kurlansky

307 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

The Hidden Oracle

The Trials of Apollo #1

Rick Riordan

10 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2016

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced