July 2024
Welcome to the seventh month of the 2024 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is,
"
Read a book about or set in Africa
.
"
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 our satellite location at 201 W. College Ave., if you haven't already!
Ghost season : a novel
Fatin Abbas
A spell of good things
Ayobami Adebayo
A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
Ishmael Beah
Africa is not a country : notes on a bright continent
Dipo Faloyin
The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope
William Kamkwamba
Red Island House : a novel
Andrea Lee
A girl is a body of water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
When the plums are ripe
Alain Patrice Nganang
Wife of the gods : a novel
Kwei Quartey
Rosewater
Tade Thompson
Aya
Marguerite Abouet
Flavors of Africa : discover authentic family recipes from all over the continent
Evi Aki
At night all blood is black
David Diop
Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard W. French
Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives
Siddharth Kara
Walking the bowl : a true story of murder and survival among the street children of Lusaka
Chris Lockhart
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Trevor Noah
City of thorns : nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp
Ben Rawlence
Petals of blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe
The house of rust : a novel
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
The death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Secret son / : A Novel
Laila Lalami
Palace walk
Naguib Mahfouz
The shadow king : a novel
Maaza Mengiste
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
The old drift : a novel
Namwali Serpell
Desert flower : the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad
Waris Dirie
Happy Reading!
Remember, you have until July 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.