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
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll Jr.

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll Jr.

272 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Marriage Act by John Marrs

The Marriage Act

John Marrs

432 pages • 2023 • 32 editions

fiction science fiction thriller challenging mysterious medium-paced
Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

Villains of Lore #1

Blood of Hercules

Jasmine Mas

496 pages • 2024 • 50 editions

user-added

fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark funny medium-paced
Murder in an Irish Cottage by Carlene O'Connor

Irish Village Mystery #5

Murder in an Irish Cottage

Carlene O'Connor

9h 26m • 2020 • 8 editions

fiction mystery adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson

Walt Longmire #9.1

Spirit of Steamboat

Craig Johnson

146 pages • 2013 • 10 editions

fiction mystery adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
El oso y el murmullo del viente by Marianne Dubuc

El oso y el murmullo del viente

Marianne Dubuc

72 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

user-added

fiction childrens adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Dark Ivy - Wenn ich falle by Nikola Hotel

Dark Academia Duett #1

Dark Ivy - Wenn ich falle

Nikola Hotel

416 pages • 2022 • 10 editions

fiction romance emotional sad fast-paced
Im Jahrtausendwald by Jirō Taniguchi

Im Jahrtausendwald

Jirō Taniguchi

78 pages • 2005 • 9 editions

comics manga adventurous reflective medium-paced
Staatenlos by Shumona Sinha

Staatenlos

Shumona Sinha

159 pages • 2017 • 2 editions

fiction contemporary feminism literary politics race medium-paced
Kings & Thieves (Band 2) - Der Schrei der Schwarzkraniche: Die Fortsetzung der atemberaubenden Romantasy - Voller Rache, Geheimnisse und dunkler Kräften - mit edlem Farbschnitt nur solange der Vorrat reicht by Sophie Kim

Talons #2

Kings & Thieves (Band 2) - Der Schrei der Schwarzkraniche: Die Fortsetzung der atemberaubenden Romantasy - Voller Rache, Geheimnisse und dunkler Kräften - mit edlem Farbschnitt nur solange der Vorrat reicht

Sophie Kim

587 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced