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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
Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Unwind Dystology #1

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

335 pages • 2007 • 77 editions

fiction dystopian science fiction young adult adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Rise of the Empress #1

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao

363 pages • 2017 • 9 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark fast-paced
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

388 pages • 1994 • 48 editions

nonfiction history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

If You Tell

Gregg Olsen

428 pages • 2019 • 32 editions

nonfiction true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians by Laurel Beckley

Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians

Laurel Beckley

88 pages • 2020 • 1 edition

fantasy science fiction emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
After Annie by Anna Quindlen

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

285 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith

Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

Tanya Smith

432 pages • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction memoir adventurous emotional informative medium-paced
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Incidents Around the House

Josh Malerman

367 pages • 2024 • 22 editions

fiction horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The One by John Marrs

The One

John Marrs

416 pages • 2016 • 86 editions

fiction science fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Last One by Will Dean

The Last One

Will Dean

448 pages • 2023 • 19 editions

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced