April 2025
Welcome to the fourth month of the 2025 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is,
"
Read a book about or set in a historical period outside the United States or United Kingdom
.
"
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 2025 challenge receives an NPL keychain and a reading notebook - redesigned for 2025!
Pick yours up at our branch location at 201 W. College Ave.!
Half of a yellow sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Ottomans : khans, caesars, and caliphs
Marc David Baer
When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
Kara Cooney
The Parisian, or, Al-Barisi
Isabella Hammad
The first Muslim : the story of Muhammad
Lesley Hazleton
Alexander at the end of the world : the forgotten final years of Alexander the Great
Rachel Kousser
The shadow king
Maaza Mengiste
The Vikings
Neil Oliver
The race to save the Romanovs : the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family
Helen Rappaport
The nightingale's castle : a novel of Erzébet Báthory, the Blood Countess
Sonia Velton
Every rising sun
Jamila Ahmed
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome
Mary Beard
The silver pigs : a Marcus Didius Falco mystery
Lindsey Davis
The mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
All of you every single one
Beatrice Hitchman
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The Incas : lords of the four quarters
Craig Morris
Captain Alatriste
Arturo P
é
rez-Reverte
Moth
Melody Razak
The story of China : the epic history of a world power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China dream
Michael Wood
Tsarina
Ellen Alpsten
The glutton
A. K. Blakemore
A ballad of love and glory
Reyna Grande
Jade Dragon Mountain
Elsa Hart
Daughter of Cana
Angela Elwell Hunt
Mozart in motion : his work and his world in pieces
Patrick Mackie
The wolf and the watchman
Niklas Natt och Dag
The end of drum-time
Hanna Pylv
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inen
Shinj
ū
Laura Joh Rowland
Run me to earth
Paul Yoon
Happy Reading!
Remember, you have until April 30 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.