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Support Your Local Library

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63 participants (1,025 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
Winging It With You by Chip Pons

Winging It With You

Chip Pons

382 pages • digital • 2025

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

384 pages • digital • 2003

nonfiction memoir informative reflective slow-paced
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #3

Richard Osman

342 pages • digital • 2022

fiction crime mystery adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey

Abaddon's Gate

The Expanse #3

James S. A. Corey

18 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2013 user-added

fiction science fiction adventurous tense medium-paced
The Hollow by Agatha Christie

The Hollow

Hercule Poirot #25

Agatha Christie

320 pages • hardcover • 1946

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

Three Act Tragedy

Hercule Poirot #11

Agatha Christie

249 pages • paperback • 1934

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

272 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

Dead Man's Folly

Hercule Poirot #31

Agatha Christie

226 pages • paperback • 1956

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
The Emma Project by Sonali Dev

The Emma Project

The Rajes #4

Sonali Dev

386 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Hercule Poirot #28

Agatha Christie

272 pages • digital • 1951

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced