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
Der Herr Wälti: Der erste Fall by Marcel Huwyler

Der Herr Wälti #1

Der Herr Wälti: Der erste Fall

Marcel Huwyler

256 pages • 2025 • 2 editions

fiction crime
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

315 pages • 2025 • 28 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad fast-paced
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

16h 16m • 2014 • 93 editions

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

Forget Me Not

Julie Soto

9h 15m • 2023 • 48 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Winter Turning by Tui T. Sutherland

Wings of Fire #7

Winter Turning

Tui T. Sutherland

7h 30m • 2015 • 19 editions

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous mysterious fast-paced
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo

7h 16m • 2017 • 43 editions

fiction romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Horse

Geraldine Brooks

14h 6m • 2022 • 27 editions

fiction historical literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes #1

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

92 pages • 1887 • 975 editions

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
your name., Vol. 1 by Makoto Shinkai

君の名は 漫画 (Your Name - Manga) #1

your name., Vol. 1

Makoto Shinkai

176 pages • 2016 • 34 editions

fiction fantasy manga romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

18h 20m • 1855 • 203 editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional slow-paced