Reading Challenge
Mix up your reading routine and broaden your horizons in 2022! OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. Take on one challenge each month or complete them on your own timeline. Finish all 12 to qualify for a prize!
How it works:
- Read or listen to a book for each of the 12 challenges.
- Track your reading in your Reading Challenge notebook and complete the log sheet on the final page, or download one here, opens a new window.
- Starting April 1, 2022, you may submit your entries online, opens a new window or bring in your printed sheet to any OPL branch by December 31, 2022, to receive a pin and to be entered into a drawing for a book store gift card!
As you read through the challenges, share what you’re reading on social media and tag @omahalibrary on Facebook, Twitter, opens a new window or Instagram, opens a new window.
Join a Reading Challenge Book Club for a lively discussion of the challenges. Share the books you're reading and get ideas for titles that apply to the different challenge themes. Registration is required.
If you have any questions about the Reading Challenge, contact readingchallenge@omahalibrary.org.
2022 Challenge
| Read a comic book/graphic novel written/illustrated by a woman | Blog | Titles, opens a new window |
| Read a book about sports | Blog, opens a new window | Titles, opens a new window |
| Read a book from OPL's 2021 Top Shelf | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a book about neurodiversity | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a book by an Asian American or Pacific Islander author | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a book about or featuring water | Blog | Titles |
| Read a book about travel | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a book by a Midwestern author | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a microhistory | Blog, opens a new window | Titles |
| Read a book mentioned on The Book Drop Podcast | Titles |
| Read a book published or set in the decade you were born | Titles |
| Read a collection of short stories or essays | Titles |
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