November 2024
Welcome to month eleven of the 2024 Adult Reading Challenge!
This month's theme is,
"
Read a book about someone experiencing housing insecurity
.
"
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!
Missing
Karin Alvtegen
Little family
Ishmael Beah
Gun love
Jennifer Clement
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
Matthew Desmond
The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
Ruth Hogan
To play the fool
Laurie R. King
The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
Steve Lopez
I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond
Michael Oher
This is all I got : a new mother's search for home
Lauren Sandler
From the ashes : my story of being mâetis, homeless, and finding my way
Jesse Thistle
The heart goes last
Margaret Atwood
The double bind
Chris Bohjalian
The guest
Emma Cline
The least among us
Gwen Florio
Brave girl, quiet girl
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Rachel and her children : homeless families in America
Jonathan Kozol
Burntown : a novel
Jennifer McMahon
My abandonment
Peter Rock
At the edge of the Haight
Katherine Seligman
The salt path
Raynor Winn
Lost memory of skin
Russell Banks
Parable of the sower
Octavia E Butler
The edge of belonging
Amanda Cox
Same kind of different as me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Ron Hall
Rough sleepers : Dr. Jim O'connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder
Pretty baby
Mary Kubica
Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard
Liz Murray
Sunbelt blues : the failure of American housing
Andrew Ross
A free man : a true story of life and death in Delhi
Aman Sethi
Under the overpass
Michael Yankoski
Happy Reading!
Remember, you have until October 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.