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Support Your Local Library

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63 participants (1,024 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
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten by Ina Garten

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

Ina Garten

8 hours, 29 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction business food and drink memoir inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Caught Up by Navessa Allen

Caught Up

Into Darkness #2

Navessa Allen

10 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction romance dark emotional funny fast-paced
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone

Shadow and Bone #1

Leigh Bardugo

358 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark medium-paced
Darkness of Dragons by Tui T. Sutherland

Darkness of Dragons

Wings of Fire #10

Tui T. Sutherland

10 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2017 user-added

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous fast-paced
The Medusa Protocol by Rob Hart

The Medusa Protocol

Assassins Anonymous

Rob Hart

320 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction mystery adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Don't Open Your Eyes: A Novel by Liv Constantine

Don't Open Your Eyes: A Novel

Liv Constantine

336 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction thriller medium-paced
A Lover's Game by Max Walker

A Lover's Game

Stonewall Investigations #4

Max Walker

314 pages • digital • 2019

fiction contemporary crime lgbtqia+ romance mysterious fast-paced
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden

Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

Aja Raden

356 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction history psychology science informative reflective fast-paced
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television

Todd S. Purdum

368 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction art biography medium-paced
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

341 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction contemporary literary mystery emotional funny hopeful medium-paced