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Support Your Local Library

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63 participants (1,016 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
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

240 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction history memoir dark informative reflective medium-paced
Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

320 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

370 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Candice Millard

9 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2011

nonfiction biography history politics informative medium-paced
Powerless by Lauren Roberts

Powerless

The Powerless Trilogy #1

Lauren Roberts

497 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison

Sarah Mirk

191 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography comics history emotional reflective slow-paced
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

187 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

The Tower of Nero

The Trials of Apollo #5

Rick Riordan

12 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous emotional funny fast-paced
The Man in the McIntosh Suit by Rina Ayuyang

The Man in the McIntosh Suit

Rina Ayuyang

212 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction graphic novel mystery adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt

Izzy, Willy-Nilly

Cynthia Voigt

336 pages • paperback • 1986

fiction young adult emotional reflective slow-paced