March 2026
Welcome to the third month of the 2026 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is,
"
Read a book about an inspirational woman
.
"
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
!
Registration Prizes!
Everyone who signs up for the 2026 challenge receives a set of magnetic bookmarks
and a reading notebook!
Pick yours up at the front desk of the library!
The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Selma Blair
Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier
The Christie Affair
Nina De Gramont
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register
Piper Huguley
The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher
Becoming
Michelle Obama
White Houses
Amy Bloom
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg
Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke
Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace
Jennifer Chiaverini
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart
107 Days
Kamala Harris
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
Circling the Sun
Paula McLain
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Mayukh Sen
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict
The Great Mrs. Elias
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik
Diva
Daisy Goodwin
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America
Elise Hooper
The Secrets of Mary Bowser
Lois Leveen
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura
She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Sarah Smarsh
My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Alice Wong
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.
