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Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025

Participate in this year's Adult Winter Reading Challenge!

From January 6th through February 28th, complete any 4 challenges on our Adult Winter Reading Challenge list to be entered into our grand prize drawing! In addition to being entered into our grand prize drawing, participants who complete 4 challenges will receive a Adult Winter Reading Challenge completion prize. You can access the challenges and sign up at mybcpl.beanstack.org or download the Beanstack app to mobile devices. Paper logs are also available at the Reference Desk beginning January 6th.

Try out our reading suggestions for each challenge.

Many titles are also available as ebooks and audiobooks on Libby or Hoopla.

Classic and Fairytale Retellings
  • Book
    • If the Shoe Fits
    • An Offer From a Gentleman
    • By the Book
    • The Sleeper and the Spindle
    • Kiss the Girl
    • A Court of Thorns and Roses
    • Murder of Mr. Wickam
    • Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
    • Cinder
    • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Set on a Road Trip or Voyage
  • Book
    • Finding George Orwell in Burma
    • Migrations
    • Tangled Up in You
    • The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
    • Lincoln Road Trip
    • Hello Girls
    • The Crossing
    • News of the World
    • The Stone in the Skull
    • I Cheerfully Refuse
Inspired a TV Show or Movie
  • Book
    • Outlander
    • Normal People
    • Unorthodox
    • Big Little Lies
    • Nine Perfect Strangers
    • The Underground Railroad
    • Shadow and Bone
    • It Ends With Us
    • A Gentleman in Moscow
    • Turtles All the Way Down
Set in a Hotel, Inn, or B&B
  • Book
    • Hotel Kitsch
    • The Book Club Hotel
    • The Paradox Hotel
    • Hotel Laguna
    • The Hotel Nantucket
    • The Gentleman From Peru
    • Complications
    • Havenfall
    • The Hotel Neversink
    • Bad Luck and Trouble
Set in the Natural World
  • Book
    • Shelterwood
    • A Walk in the Park
    • Where Should We Camp Next?
    • Annihilation
    • The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    • Where the Crawdads Sing
    • The Signature of All Things
    • A Gardener at the End of the World
    • The Comfort of Crows
    • Flatlands
Set During the Civil Rights Movement
  • Book
    • Buses Are a Comin'
    • March Vol. 1
    • Hidden Figures
    • Civil Rights Queen
    • And We Rise
    • The Help
    • The Last House on the Street
    • Moonrise Over New Jessup
    • The First Ladies
    • The Nickel Boys
Features Black Excellence
  • Book
    • The Truths We Hold
    • The Source of Self-Regard
    • Between the World and Me
    • The Hill We Climb
    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    • Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem
    • The Beautiful Ones
    • Just Mercy
    • The Souls of Black Folk: Graphic Interpretation
    • The Black Joy Project
Staff Picks
  • Book
    • Never Whistle at Night
    • Through the Woods
    • Index: A History of The
    • The Love Hypothesis
    • More is More
    • Just for the Summer
    • Crying in H Mart
    • West With Giraffes
    • It Happened One Summer
    • Why We Love Baseball
Chills You to Your Core
  • Book
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    • A Guest in the House
    • Motherthing
    • A Touch of Jen
    • Lost Man's Lane
    • The Blue Hour
    • Middle of the Night
    • You Like it Darker: Stories
    • I'll Be Waiting
    • Holly
Young Adult
  • Book
    • Compount Fracture
    • Poemhood
    • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
    • Your Lonely Nights Are Over
    • Infinity Alchemist
    • Wander in the Dark
    • Courage to Dream
    • Into the Sunken City