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Support Your Local Library

rachelbonitzwrites Host

15 participants (66 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
The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

The Arrangement

The Arrangement #1

Kiersten Modglin

226 pages • paperback • 2021 user-added

fiction contemporary thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Keep It in the Family by John Marrs

Keep It in the Family

John Marrs

373 pages • digital • 2022 user-added

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Voice on the Radio by Caroline B. Cooney

The Voice on the Radio

Janie Johnson #3

Caroline B. Cooney

224 pages • paperback • 1996

fiction mystery young adult emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney

Whatever Happened to Janie?

Janie Johnson #2

Caroline B. Cooney

224 pages • paperback • 1993

fiction childrens mystery young adult dark mysterious tense slow-paced
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

Janie Johnson #1

Caroline B. Cooney

192 pages • hardcover • 1990

fiction mystery young adult mysterious reflective fast-paced
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

Crystal Wilkinson

256 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction food and drink history memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

Edward Dolnick

352 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin

Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

Daniel Barban Levin

272 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction memoir true crime dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Love, Theoretically

Ali Hazelwood

12 hours, 33 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

255 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction literary science fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced