2024 Reading Challenge

Massachusetts Center for the Book has a fun, unique reading challenge to take on in 2024!

Here is how the challenge works:

  • Sign up using this form.
  • Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge, see below for this month’s suggestions.
  • After you read, fill out this form to tell us about the book.
  • That’s it!
    • If you read at least one book, you will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book.
    • If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books and Massachusetts goodies.

September: Read a Debut Book by a Massachusetts Author

Another Appalachia : Coming Up Queer and Indian In A Mountain Place by Avashia, Neema
Black Radical : the Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Greenidge, Kerri
The Light of Seven Days : A Novel by Adams, River
A Delicate Marriage by Barresi, Margarita
Waiting for the Night Song by Dalton, Julie Carrick
Shark Heart : A Love Story by Habeck, Emily
Mrs. Kimble : A Novel by Haigh, Jennifer
Do Your Om Thing : Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life by Pacheco, Rebecca
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Vuong, Ocean
City of Bones by Clare, Cassandra
Pretend I
Now, Conjurers by Kölsch, Freddie
Ash by Lo, Malinda