2021 Reading Challenge
Our year-long Reading Challenge will help you expand your reading choices and have meaningful conversations about books with a community of readers. We challenge you to read or listen to one book from 12 categories before the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2021.
Join our private Facebook group to connect with other readers, share the books you're reading, and hear what other members are reading as you all complete the 12 challenges. Library staff will post suggestions throughout the year in this group and upload the occasional video book chat. You can also find challenge recommendations in our staff blog, Shelf Talk.
You can track your reading in a favourite app or use the checkout history in your library account.
Your 2021 Reading Challenges:
- A book set in a place where you would like to live
- A book related to Black History Month/Black Lives Matter
- A book based on a fairy tale, myth or legend
- A book to make you laugh
- A book about a real person
- A book by an Indigenous author
- A book you picked because you liked the cover or the title
- A book you meant to read in 2020
- A book told from multiple points of view
- A book that celebrates books, reading or libraries
- A book under 200 pages long/ An audiobook under 5 hours long
- A book you consider a classic
Once you've completed your 12 book challenges, please submit your entry online to enter our draw to win a prize. No good read should go unrewarded!
Alternatively, you can print out the following form and submit it to the library in person or by email.
Download a Reading Challenge PDF
Already done your challenge? Feel free to start over and submit another entry!