Support Your Local Library

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63 participants (1,023 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
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Amgash #1

Elizabeth Strout

4 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2016

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Tell Me Everything

Amgash #5

Elizabeth Strout

326 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction contemporary literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

Douglas W. Tallamy

256 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent

Little Cruelties

Liz Nugent

10 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction mystery thriller mysterious reflective fast-paced
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Fiona Davis

10 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction historical emotional mysterious medium-paced
How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris

How to Sleep at Night

Elizabeth Harris

304 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary lighthearted slow-paced
The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

The Last Lifeboat

Hazel Gaynor

384 pages • digital • 2023

fiction historical medium-paced
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

233 pages • paperback • 2006

fiction graphic novel middle grade young adult emotional funny reflective fast-paced
The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan

The Tyrant's Tomb

The Trials of Apollo #4

Rick Riordan

13 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 2019

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous emotional funny fast-paced
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Bois Sauvage #3

Jesmyn Ward

285 pages • paperback • 2017 user-added

fiction contemporary literary magical realism dark emotional sad medium-paced