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A reading challenge for the new year

With just 13 prompts, this reading challenge is designed to be fun, accessible, and easy to tailor to your own To-Be-Read list and reading interests. The prompts are open to your interpretation, but library staff and volunteers also have recommendations to help guide your selections.

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Want to join? Here are 3 ways you can do so:

  • Use this webpage to review the prompts and start planning your reading list. Some prompts also include a link to recommended reading lists, but please feel free to interpret prompts as loosely as you want!

  • Prefer a physical version? Come by the library for a bookmark or printout with the prompts.

  • Join the challenge on Storygraph, a website that allows you to log your reading. (It's similar to Goodreads but isn't owned by Amazon. If you're already a Goodreads user and interested in switching over, you can transfer your existing data over to Storygraph.)

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We already have some recommendations up on our Storygraph page and will be linking recommendation lists to the prompts on this page soon.

3 / a book you've been meaning to read for more than a year
5 / a book that would be at home in our Short Reads section (poetry, essays, graphic novels, and comics for adults)
6 / a book set on a continent or in a country you've never visited (fiction or nonfiction)
8 / a book of literary journalism (investigative nonfiction)
10 / a book about art or set in the art world (fiction or nonfiction)
11 / an award-winning book (fiction or nonfiction)
12 / a book set in the place we now know as New England
13 / a book featuring a very old building (in honor of our building's 200th birthday)
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