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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
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment by Zoë Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment

Zoë Playdon

416 pages • 2021 • 9 editions

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

453 pages • 2019 • 92 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library

The Stonewall Reader

The New York Public Library

305 pages • 2019 • 13 editions

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative inspiring medium-paced
Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age by Sarah Hendrickx

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

Sarah Hendrickx

368 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction gender psychology self help medium-paced
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle

352 pages • 2024 • 9 editions

nonfiction history race true crime emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans by Jamie Raines

The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans

Jamie Raines

264 pages • 2023 • 8 editions

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir self help informative medium-paced
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

448 pages • 2019 • 206 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty

How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity

Stuart Getty

240 pages • 2020 • 5 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ funny informative reflective fast-paced
We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

We'll Prescribe You a Cat #1

We'll Prescribe You a Cat

Syou Ishida

297 pages • 2023 • 40 editions

fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis #1-4

The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

341 pages • 2000 • 94 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced