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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
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge

鬼滅の刃 / Kimetsu no Yaiba #1

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1

Koyoharu Gotouge

192 pages • 2016 • 42 editions

fiction fantasy horror manga adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

The Wicked Years #1

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

412 pages • 1995 • 135 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark slow-paced
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

The Woman Destroyed

Simone de Beauvoir

246 pages • 1967 • 87 editions

fiction classics literary short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Queen's Advantage by Jessie Mihalik

Rogue Queen #2

The Queen's Advantage

Jessie Mihalik

206 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

fiction romance science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

166 pages • 1972 • 34 editions

nonfiction art essays philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Reckless by Lauren Roberts

The Powerless Trilogy #2

Reckless

Lauren Roberts

383 pages • 2024 • 72 editions

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

Anton Treuer

8h 16m • 2012 • 8 editions

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced
Final Girls by Riley Sager

Final Girls

Riley Sager

339 pages • 2017 • 89 editions

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

Hallie Rubenhold

512 pages • 2025 • 13 editions

nonfiction true crime dark informative tense medium-paced
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

240 pages • 2025 • 6 editions

nonfiction history memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced