March 2024
Welcome to the third month of the 2024 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is,
"
Read a book by a neurodivergent author
.
"
Pick one of the great books below or any other book that fits the theme!
If you are new to the challenge, welcome!
Every month, read a book on that month's theme. Log the book on Beanstack and you are able to earn that month's sticker.
There is a monthly prize drawing for those who completed that month's challenge - the winner receives a $25 gift card to a local business!
Complete at least nine months of the year to be entered into a grand prize drawing!
If you are not currently registered for the Adult Reading Challenge,
join the fun on Beanstack
!
Have you picked up
your 2024 notebook?
Everyone who signs up for the challenge receives a reading notebook - newly designed for 2024!
Pick yours up at the front desk of Normal Public Library today, if you haven't already!
Because we are bad : OCD and a girl lost in thought
Lily Bailey
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
Animals in translation : using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior
Temple Grandin
The kiss quotient
Helen Hoang
Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
Scott Kelly
Wintering : the power of rest and retreat in difficult times
Katherine May
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Trevor Noah
BRZRKR. Volume one
Keanu Reeves
No one is too small to make a difference
Greta Thunberg
Superman's not coming : our national water crisis and what we the people can do about it
Erin Brockovich
The murder of Roger Ackroyd : a Hercule Poirot mystery
Agatha Christie
Canada
Richard Ford
Act your age, Eve Brown : a novel
Talia Hibbert
How to build a dinosaur : extinction doesn't have to be forever
John R. Horner
Broken (in the best possible way)
Jenny Lawson
Normal sucks : how to live, learn, and thrive outside the lines
Jonathan Mooney
Jamie Oliver's meals in minutes : A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast
Jamie Oliver
An unkindness of ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
Max Brooks
The book eaters
Sunyi Dean
Call us what we carry : poems
Amanda Gorman
The reason I jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
Naoki Higashida
The cider house rules : a novel
John Irving
Must love flowers : a novel
Debbie Macomber
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
No limits : the will to succeed
Michael Phelps
Through my eyes
Tim Tebow
Nothing to see here
Kevin Wilson
Happy Reading!
Remember, you have until March 31 to read a book on the theme and
log it in Beanstack
to be eligible for this month's prize drawing.
To place a hold, click on the cover and go to our online catalog.