2026 Reading Challenge

Read one book in each of the 26 categories by December 31st, 2026, and win a prize!

One book per category, one category per book, for a total of 26 books ready by December 31st, 2026! To be rewarded for completing the challenge, submit your completed log to the library by December 31st, 2026. The challenge is open to cardholders of the BRPL.

  • Click on the category for descriptions and book title ideas. All titles in BRPL collection and available through the Library.

  • The Plot- Jean Hanff Korelitz

    The Maidens- Alex Michaelides

    Ninth House-Leigh Bardugo

    The Cloisters-Katy Hays

    Camino Island-John Grisham

    The Wasp Trap-Mark Edwards

  • City of Girls- Elizabeth Gilbert

    Daisy Jones & the Six- Taylor Jenkins Reid

    A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara

    Normal People- Sally Rooney

    The Paper Palace-Miranda Cowley Heller

    Writers and Lovers-Lily King

  • Use the “Recently Returned” cart at the BRPL or pick a title that a friend recommended.

  • The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan

    The Thursday Murder Club-Richard Osman

    Supper Club- Lara Williams

    The Camel Club- David Baldacci

    The Lonely Hearts Book Club-Lucy Gilmore

    The Confession Club-Elizabeth Berg

  • Badlands- C.J. Box

    The Revenant- Michael Punke

    Where Coyotes Howl- Sandra Dallas

    Prairie Nocturn- Ivan Doig

    Finding Dorothy- ELizabeth Letts

    One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow-Libbie Hawker

  • Wild Dark Shore- Charlotte McConaghy

    The Sirens- Emilia Hart

    The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan

    Summer Island- Kristin Hannah

    When We Believe in Mermaids- Barbara O’Neil

    Remarkably Bright Creatures-Shelby Van Pelt

  • Sorrowland-Rivers Solomon

    The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic-Breanne Randall

    A Sea of Unspoken Things- Adrienne Young

    The Vanishing Half- Brit Bennett

    The Identicals-Elin Hilderbrand

    The Au Pair-Emma Rous

  • 2025

    2013

    2001

    1989

    1977

    1965

    1953

    1941

    etc.

  • Item description

  • Six of Crows-Leigh Bardugo

    The Art Thief- by Michael Finkel

    The Heist- Daniel Silva

    Artemis- Andy Weir

    The Picasso Heist- James Patterson

    Harlem Shuffle- Colson Whitehead

  • Item description

  • The Seed Keeper- Diane Wilson

    Murder on the Red River- Marcie R. Rendon

    The Mighty Red- Louise Erdrich

    There, There- Tommy Orange

    Where the Dead Sit Talking- Brandon Hobson

    The Firekeeper’s Daughter- Angeline Boulley

  • The Quiet Librarian - Allen Eskens

    Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

    The Last Chance Library - Freya Sampson

    The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

    The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson

    The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles

  • My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult

    Tuesday’s With Morrie- Mitch Albom

    Practical Magic- Alice Hoffman

    Little Women- Louisa May Alcott

    Things You Save in a Fire- Katherine Center

    The Wedding People-Alison Espach

  • For example, Oxygen, Gold, Iron, Helium, Air, Water, Earth, Fire.

  • National Book Award list

  • The Bookish Life of Nina Hill- Abbi Waxman

    Dial A for Aunties- Jesse Q. Sutanto

    Unsheltered- Barbara Kingsolver

    The Son- Philipp Meyer

    Secrets of the Lighthouse- Santa Montefiore

    The Dutch House-Ann Patchett

  • Fourth Wing- Rebecca Yarros

    The Round House- Louise Erdrich

    Girl, Serpent, Thorn- Melissa Bashardoust

    The Snow Child- Ewoyn Ivey

    Circe-Madeline Miller

    A Court of Thorns and Roses- Sarah J. Maas