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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 Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough

26h 18m • 1977 • 115 editions

fiction classics historical romance emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy #1

Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh

300 pages • 1964 • 35 editions

fiction classics middle grade mystery lighthearted medium-paced
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Brom

305 pages • 2021 • 33 editions

fiction fantasy historical horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

Melinda Taub

416 pages • 2023 • 16 editions

fiction fantasy historical adventurous emotional medium-paced
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Good Dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson

352 pages • 2025 • 14 editions

fiction historical literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Question of Murder by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain

Murder, She Wrote #25

A Question of Murder

Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain

272 pages • 2006 • 5 editions

fiction mystery lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

All Souls #1

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness

23h 56m • 2011 • 115 editions

fiction fantasy romance thriller adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Spring's Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

The Dead God's Heart #1

Spring's Arcana

Lilith Saintcrow

353 pages • 2023 • 5 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous medium-paced
Collected Poems And Verse Of The Austen Family by Jane Austen

Collected Poems And Verse Of The Austen Family

Jane Austen

144 pages • 1996 • 2 editions

classics informative reflective medium-paced
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

336 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced