Broader Bookshelf Reading Challenge
Ready to broaden your reading horizons? Here's how it works.
DISCOVER
Use fresh reading prompts each year to discover authors, genres and books you might not otherwise pick up. Current year's prompts are listed below.
SHARE
Take a photo of the book cover and share it on social media using #BroaderBookshelf.
Don't forget to jot each title down next to the prompt on your tracking sheet. Yes! You can check off more than one category with the same book! E-books and Audiobooks count.
WIN
Complete all 14 reading prompts and turn in your paper tracking record at your preferred location or e-mail a picture of your completed tracking record to readfreely@richlandlibrary.com. You'll receive a Richland Library #Broader Bookshelf tote bag and a small prize. Your name will be entered into a Grand Prize drawing for an e-Reader. Submissions are due by December 31, 2024.
2024 Reading Prompts
- Read a book suggested by a Richland Library staff member.
- Read a fiction or nonfiction title that confronts the topic of aging or death.
- Read a book by or about someone that identifies as ability diverse.
- Read a book set in Georgia or Alabama.
- Read a book about war.
- Read a graphic novel by a marginalized author or illustrator (BIPOC or LGBTQIA+).
- Read a Blind Date with a Book selection (March, July and December).
- Read a book with If or When in the title.
- Read a book that takes place on a college or university campus.
- Read a novel set in the 1980s.
- Read a book based on the theme of addiction.
- Read a book by or about someone from an Indigenous culture (Native American, Aboriginal, First Nations, etc.).
- Read a book that has been on your TBR forever.
- Read a book by a Pulitzer or Nobel Prize winning author.
Find staff recommendations for each of the #BroaderBookshelf 2024 prompts, here or try our personalized recommendation service, here.
2023
Check out the 2023 prompts.
2022
Check out the 2022 prompts.
2021
Check out the 2021 prompts.
2020
Check out the 2020 prompts.
2019
Check out the 2019 prompts.
2018
Check out the 2018 prompts.
2017
Check out the 2017 prompts.