November Reading Challenge

November is the month of gratitude, and who better to show our appreciation than those who came before us. Let's celebrate the lives and cultures of those who called this land home before we came along!

 

Check out our in-store display for books by and/or about Indigenous Peoples. (BONUS: Buy a staff pick and save 10%!)

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October Reading Challenge

October officially kicks off the spooky season, and we're looking for bone-chilling reads to fright and delight! Regardless of your scare-level, we have options that will haunt you — be it with laughter or fear.

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September Reading Challenge

As an independent bookstore, we can't help but want to support independent publishers. In that vein, September's theme is "from an Indie Press."
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August Reading Challenge

Bookstore Romance Days happen in August, so we figured that was good jumping off point for this month's reading challenge: Romancing the Tome. (A little 80s movie throwback doesn't hurt either!)​

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July Reading Challenge

July is a month of celebration for our country's freedoms, which has us in a nostalgic state of mind. As such, we're digging into history with fiction or nonfiction titles.

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June Reading Challenge

June is Pride Month. Show your Pride with this month's book challenge: a book written by and/or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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May Reading Challenge

May is Mystery Month and to mark this annual celebration, this month's book challenge is to solve a mystery by reading one.

April Reading Challenge

 

April is National Poetry Month and to honor this annual milestone, this month's book challenge is to read a book of poetry.

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March Reading Challenge

 

March is Women's History Month and to honor this annual milestone, this month's book challenge is to read a book by a female author. 

 

February Reading Challenge

February is Black History Month and to honor this annual milestone, this month's book challenge is to read a book by a Black author. Here are few authors to inspire (but there are so many more!):

 

• Colson Whitehead

• Roxane Gay

• Jacqueline Woodson

• Robert Jones, Jr.

• Dorothy Roberts

• Yaa Gyasi

• Lorraine Hansberry

• Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Ashley C. Ford

• Jason Reynolds

• Kwame Alexander

• Ibram X. Kendi

• Nic Stone

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January Reading Challenge

 

Kick off the New Year with a 2023 award-winning book! Here are few book awards worth considering:

 

• Pulitzer

• Nobel Prize in Literature 

• National Book Award

• Nebula

• Hugo 

• The Booker

• Caldecott

• Newbery

• Coretta Scott King

• Stonewall

• Lambda Literary

• Printz