Take the 2024 WINTER READING CHALLENGE For Adults

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

• How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

• The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson

• The Library Book by Susan Orlean

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

• What You Are Looking For is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama

The African Samurai by Craig Shreve

• A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

• The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

• The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

• The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch

• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah

• Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile

• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

• Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

• Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

• Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

• Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

• Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev

• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• Nimona by ND Stevenson

• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

• Wool by Hugh Howey

• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

• Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

• Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

• Glitterland by Alexis Hall

• Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

• Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

• Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

• Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

• Bunny by Mona Awad

• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

• Out There Screaming: an Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca 

• Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

• The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

• Everybody’s Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist by Lillian Stone

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith

• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

• Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

• Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

• Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom

• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

• The Last Ranger by Peter Heller

• The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000 Mile Horseback Journey into the Old West by Will Grant

• Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

• Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

• The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

• Outlawed by Anna North

• West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• The World According to Garp by John Irving

• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

• The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

• Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

• Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre

• Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado

• River of the Gods: Sir Richard Burton, John Speke, Sidi Mubarak Bombay and the Epic Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard

• The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner

• Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

• The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring

• Exes and O’s by Amy Lea

• Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams

• Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

• Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond

• Ramon and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson

• When in Rome by Sarah Adams

• You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

• Bellies by Nicola Dinan

• The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro

• The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

• Homebodies by Tembe Denton Hurst

• Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

• Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

• Roaming by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

• Tomorrow Will be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

• Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

• Bunny by Mona Awad

• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

• Out There Screaming: an Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

• Bunny by Mona Awad

• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

• Out There Screaming: an Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

• Enter the Blue by Dave Chisholm

• Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, In Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

• The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

• Schrader’s Chord by Scott Leeds

• Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

• The Deal by Elle Kennedy

• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

• In These Hallowed Halls: a Dark Academia Anthology edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane

• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

• Speech Team by Tim Murphy

• They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

• True Biz by Sara Novic

• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

• Vladimir by Julia May Jonas