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2024 Online Reading Challenge
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Intro to 2024 ORC
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Spend the year reading books set in different decades
January: 1800s
Book: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
February: 1900s & 1910s
Book: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
March: 1920s & 1930s
Book: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
April: 1940s
Book: The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman
May: 1950s & 1960s
Book: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
June: 1970s
Book: Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
July: 1980s
Book: Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
August: 1990s
Book: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
September: 2000s to present
Book: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
October: Future
Book: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
November: Spanning Decades/Time
Book: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
December: Dual Timelines
Book: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Get ready for our ninth year of reading recommendations with our super-casual, low-stress reading club! It is run online through the Davenport Library’s reference blog Info Café and, new in 2024, you can participate in the Online Reading Challenge through the Beanstack app!
Our theme for 2024 is Decades! Each month we will be traveling to a different decade and highlighting a main title set in that decade. Besides the main title, we’ll have suggestions for books set in the same decade as well as many more on display at each of our buildings. You can choose to read the main book or alternate titles or even something else completely! At the end of the month I’ll write about the main title, pose some questions, and invite you to comment your observations about the title you read.
Of course, as always, you may do as you please – there are no Library Police! If you wish to skip a month or read more than one book in that month or read a book from a different month, go for it! No one will drag you off to Library Jail if you choose your own path!
You can participate in the Online Reading Challenge on our Info Cafe Blog (https://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/re...) or join the challenge on Beanstack (https://davenportlibrary.beanstack.co...). Our 2024 book list can be found here (https://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/re...).