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
Die Tage in der Buchhandlung Morisaki by Satoshi Yagisawa

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop #1

Die Tage in der Buchhandlung Morisaki

Satoshi Yagisawa

189 pages • 2010 • 93 editions

fiction contemporary hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Stiller Hass by Christine Brand

Milla Nova #4

Stiller Hass

Christine Brand

448 pages • 2022 • 2 editions

fiction crime
Ich und die Menschen by Matt Haig

Ich und die Menschen

Matt Haig

352 pages • 2013 • 83 editions

fiction science fiction funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

252 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

nonfiction feminism history challenging dark informative fast-paced
The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

The Library of Lost and Found

Phaedra Patrick

352 pages • 2019 • 19 editions

fiction contemporary mystery emotional lighthearted slow-paced
Murder in the Drawing Room by C.J. Archer

Cleopatra Fox Mysteries #3

Murder in the Drawing Room

C.J. Archer

7h 58m • 2021 • 5 editions

fiction historical mystery adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean

Scandal & Scoundrel #1

The Rogue Not Taken

Sarah MacLean

419 pages • 2015 • 18 editions

fiction historical romance emotional medium-paced
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store by Laurie Gilmore

Dream Harbor #2

The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

Laurie Gilmore

371 pages • 2024 • 44 editions

fiction contemporary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

278 pages • 2021 • 24 editions

fiction crime historical mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

11h 23m • 2023 • 42 editions

fiction historical literary romance emotional reflective medium-paced