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.

July: Read a book by an Author born outside of the United States!

Trust by Díaz, Hernán
Yellowface : A Novel by Kuang, R. F
The Moor
Free Food for Millionaires by Lee, Min Jin
How Beautiful We Were : A Novel by Mbue, Imbolo
The Sympathizer : [a Novel] by Nguyen, VIet Thanh
Boy, Snow, Bird : A Novel by Oyeyemi, Helen
A World of Curiosities by Penny, Louise
Good Omens : the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Gaiman, Neil
Born A Crime : Stories From A South African Childhood by Noah, Trevor
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
Maus : A Survivor
Americanah by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
A Man Called Ove : A Novel by Backman, Fredrik
And the Mountains Echoed by Hosseini, Khaled
Crazy Rich Asians by Kwan, Kevin
The Lowland : A Novel by Lahiri, Jhumpa