Year-long Reading Challenge

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Join us for Turn the Page, our year-long reading program designed to celebrate the joy of reading and discovery. Open to teens and adults, this program invites you to dive into captivating monthly themes and explore a variety of literary genres. Here’s how it works:

Program Details

• Registration: Sign up anytime throughout the year via ReadSquared or the “Reading Programs” dropdown on our website. Registration is open to everyone—library cardholders and non-cardholders alike.
• Reading Goals: Log your pages starting January 2! To qualify for monthly prize drawings, read and log at least 300 pages per month. For the year-end grand prize, log a total of 3,600 pages by December 31.
• Prizes: Each month, one lucky reader will win a special prize. Complete the program’s reading goal to be entered into the drawing for the grand prize!
• Booklists: Every month features a new literary theme, complete with curated booklists to inspire your reading. You can find this month’s list below.
• Flexibility: Choose from our curated list or explore books outside the list that fit each month’s theme. Paper reading logs are available at the library for those who prefer to track their progress offline.

April’s Reading List: Environmental Science

Explore these stories of some of history’s most amazing women:

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
• The Bear by Claire Cameron
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• How to Cool the Planet by Jeff Goodell
• The River by Peter Heller
• Unnatural Disasters by Jeff Hirsch
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• The Planet Remade by Oliver Morton
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
• Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Playground by Richard Powers
• Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell
• On a Farther Shore by William Souder
• The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan
• The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
• Against the Wind by Jim Tilley
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

How to Participate

1. Register: Visit ReadSquared to get started.
2. Read: Enjoy books that fit the monthly theme and log your pages online or with a paper log.
3. Win: Log your pages to be eligible for exciting prizes!

Questions?

Visit the library or contact us for more information. Happy reading!