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 Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

341 pages • 1997 • 17 editions

nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

400 pages • 2022 • 194 editions

fiction historical literary emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore

478 pages • 2024 • 73 editions

fiction historical literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar

The Museum of Failures

Thrity Umrigar

358 pages • 2023 • 9 editions

fiction contemporary emotional reflective medium-paced
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

454 pages • 2024 • 105 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

545 pages • 1998 • 79 editions

fiction historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

245 pages • 2020 • 124 editions

fiction fantasy literary speculative fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

724 pages • 2023 • 44 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

246 pages • 2019 • 112 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger

450 pages • 2019 • 22 editions

fiction historical literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced