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
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart #1

This Poison Heart

Kalynn Bayron

10h 17m • 2021 • 37 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

9h 32m • 2023 • 136 editions

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

The Folk of the Air #3.5

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Holly Black

173 pages • 2020 • 94 editions

fiction fantasy short stories young adult adventurous fast-paced
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Jesselyn Cook

272 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale by Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #7

Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale

Nathan Hale

124 pages • 2017 • 4 editions

nonfiction graphic novel history middle grade adventurous fast-paced
Lost Landmarks of Orange County by Chris Epting

Lost Landmarks of Orange County

Chris Epting

300 pages • 2024 • 1 edition

user-added

nonfiction historical travel
The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley by Melissa Marr, Jenn St-Onge

The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley

Melissa Marr, Jenn St-Onge

171 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

fiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous funny fast-paced
The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Nix

Nathan Hill

21h 44m • 2016 • 51 editions

fiction historical literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Coffee, Tea, or Murder? by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain

Murder, She Wrote #27

Coffee, Tea, or Murder?

Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain

281 pages • 2007 • 4 editions

fiction mystery lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale by Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #6

Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale

Nathan Hale

122 pages • 2016 • 5 editions

nonfiction graphic novel history middle grade adventurous informative medium-paced