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Helping You Meet Those Reading Goals
Posted 02/12/21 by Brittany G
Have you started a reading challenge yet this year? Maybe you need a little inspiration to log a few more books for TLCPL’s Winter Read. Maybe you want to challenge yourself to “read harder” this year. No matter what, the team at Kent Branch has you covered! We have curated a list of challenges to diversify your reads this year, and our staff has provided suggestions of some of their faves to match!
Read a Book from our Tatum Center Collection
Why Didn't We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Dick Gregory's Political Primer
Read an Autobiography/Memoir by a Person you May be Unfamiliar With
In the Dream House: A memoir
eBook | eAudiobookWhat We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
eBookHaben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
eAudiobookRead a Book About a Lesser-Known Historical Event
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
eBook | eAudiobook | Spoken CD | Large PrintThe Cold Millions
eBook | Spoken CD | eAudiobookThe Huntress: A Novel
eAudiobook | eBook | Large Print | Spoken CDRead a Book from our Steinem Sisters Collection
The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
Recollections of My Nonexistence
eBookHood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
eAudiobook | eBookRead a Novel by a LGBTQ+ Author
The City in the Middle of the Night
eBook | eAudiobookThe Thirty Names of Night
eBookThe Death of Vivek Oji
Large Print | eAudiobook | eBookRead a Novel by a Latinx Author
Mexican Gothic
eBook | eAudiobookA Long Petal of the Sea : A Novel
eBook | Large Print | Pocket Audiobook | eAudiobookThe Book of Lost Saints
Read a Book by an Ohioana Book Award Winner
All the Light we Cannot See: A Novel
eBook | eAudiobook | Large Print | Spoken CDLittle Fires Everywhere
eBook | Large Print | Spoken CD | eAudiobookThe Volunteer
Read a Book Written by an Author from Toledo
Inspiration in my Shoes
eAudiobookI'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
eBook | eAudiobookA Dirty Job
Large Print | eBook | eAudiobookRead a Book About our Local History
Historical Tales of Toledo
The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It
East of the Maumee River: A Pictorial History of East Toledo, Oregon, & Other Communities East of the River
Read a Banned/Challenged book
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
eBookThe Hate U Give
eBook | eAudiobook | Large PrintThirteen Reasons Why: A Novel
eBook | eAudiobook | Spoken CDRead a Novel by an Indigenous Author
The Night Watchman: A Novel
eBook | eAudiobook | Large PrintA Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Black Sun
eBook | eAudiobook | Spoken CDRead a Novel Featuring a Character with a Mental Illness
The Midnight Library
eBook | eAudiobook | Spoken CD | Pocket AudiobookEverything Here is Beautiful: A Novel
Large Print | Spoken CD | eAudiobookEvery Last Word
eBook | eAudiobookRead a Book with a Nature Theme
Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays
eBook | eAudiobookThe Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
eAudiobookThe Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
eBook | eAudiobookRead a Book That’s Been Adapted into a Movie/TV Series
The Duke and I
eBook | Large PrintThe Good Lord Bird: A Novel
eAudiobook | Spoken CD | eBookLovecraft Country
eBook | eAudiobookRead a Book by an Independent Publisher
Queen of the Owls: A Novel
Whiskey & Ribbons
This is How it Begins: A Novel
Read an Epistolary Novel
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Large Print | eBook | eAudiobookThis Is How You Lose the Time War
eAudiobook | eBookLast Tang Standing
eBook | eAudiobookRead a Novel Featuring Ability Diverse Characters
The Kiss Quotient
Large Print | eBookA Piece of the World: A Novel
eAudiobook | eBook | Large Print | Spoken CDMe Before You: A Novel
eBook | eAudiobook | Spoken CD | Large PrintRead a Book Written Over 100 Years Ago
Hunger
eBookThe Book of Khalid
eAudiobook | eBook | Large Print | Spoken CDFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
eAudiobookRead a Book of Poems or Essays
Whiskey Words & A Shovel II
eBookWow, No Thank You: Essays
eAudiobook | eBookThe Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Read an Own Voices Book Set Outside the U.S.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
eBook | Spoken CDThe Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
eBookCall Me American: A Memoir
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