Year-long Reading Challenge
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.
- My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman
- Home Work by Julie Andrews
- Surrender: 40 songs, one story by Bono
- A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
- Cher: the memoir, part one by Cher
- Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins
- Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
- Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
- Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
- Split Decision by Ice-T
- A Natural Woman by Carole King
- My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee
- Set the Boy Free by Johnny Marr
- What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald
- Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
- Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith by Joe Perry
- Hip-hop is History by Questlove
- Me and a Guy Named Elvis by Jerry Schilling
- Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
- Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
- My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
- Does the Noise in my Head Bother You? by Steven Tyler
How to Participate
- Register: Visit ReadSquared to get started.
- Read: Enjoy books that fit the monthly theme and log your pages online or with a paper log.
- Win: Log your pages to be eligible for exciting prizes!