Love Your Library

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33 participants (159 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Borrow and read at least 12 books from your local public library in 2025.

A lot of libraries are only able to stay open if they can show a certain amount of footfall and books borrowed.

Read as many as you can!

Challenge Books

All books added
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

89 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

Matt Siegel

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays food and drink history funny informative fast-paced
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health by Karen Tang

It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health

Karen Tang

384 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health challenging informative medium-paced
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

The Gravity of Us

Phil Stamper

314 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ romance young adult lighthearted slow-paced
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

304 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation

Southern Reach #1

Jeff VanderMeer

208 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction horror science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv

276 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative reflective medium-paced
The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto

The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents #1

Nicki Pau Preto

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced
Assassin of Shadows by Lawrence Goldstone

Assassin of Shadows

Lawrence Goldstone

275 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical mystery challenging mysterious slow-paced
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

309 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics historical dark emotional sad medium-paced