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
Seraphim: 266613336 Wings by Mamoru Oshii

Seraphim: 266613336 Wings

Mamoru Oshii

268 pages • 2010 • 4 editions

fiction fantasy manga adventurous dark slow-paced
Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Ikegami, Nankidai

Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game #2

Your Turn to Die: Majority Vote Death Game, Vol. 2

Tatsuya Ikegami, Nankidai

196 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

fiction horror manga mystery
Only the Flower Knows Vol. 2 by Rihito Takarai

花のみぞ知る Hana no mizoshiru #2

Only the Flower Knows Vol. 2

Rihito Takarai

178 pages • 2011 • 12 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ manga romance adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
Hook, Line and Murder by Jessica Fletcher

Murder, She Wrote #46

Hook, Line and Murder

Jessica Fletcher

265 pages • 2016 • 9 editions

fiction mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Killer in the Rain by Raymond Chandler

Killer in the Rain

Raymond Chandler

584 pages • 1964 • 3 editions

fiction crime mystery short stories emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

The Wishing Game

Meg Shaffer

278 pages • 2023 • 57 editions

fiction contemporary literary magical realism adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

Magic Hour

Kristin Hannah

416 pages • 2006 • 61 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

12h 36m • 1813 • 2.7k editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced
Funny Story by Emily Henry

Funny Story

Emily Henry

11h 23m • 2024 • 133 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

340 pages • 2024 • 54 editions

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced