Helping You Meet Those Reading Goals

Posted on February 12, 2021

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

Cover of Why Didn't We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland

Cover of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Cover of Dick Gregory's Political Primer

Read an Autobiography/Memoir by a Person you May be Unfamiliar With

Cover of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Cover of Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Read a Book About a Lesser-Known Historical Event

Cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Read a Book from our Steinem Sisters Collection

Cover of The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Cover of Recollections of My Nonexistence

Cover of Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Read a Novel by a LGBTQ+ Author

Cover of The City in the Middle of the Night

Read a Novel by a Latinx Author

Cover of A Long Petal of the Sea : A Novel

Read a Book by an Ohioana Book Award Winner

Cover of All the Light we Cannot See: A Novel

Read a Book Written by an Author from Toledo

Cover of I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Read a Book About our Local History

Cover of The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It

Cover of East of the Maumee River: A Pictorial History of East Toledo, Oregon, & Other Communities East of the River

Read a Banned/Challenged book

Cover of Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

Read a Novel by an Indigenous Author

Cover of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Read a Novel Featuring a Character with a Mental Illness

Cover of Everything Here is Beautiful: A Novel

Read a Book with a Nature Theme

Cover of Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays

Cover of The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

Cover of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Read a Book That’s Been Adapted into a Movie/TV Series

Read a Book by an Independent Publisher

Read an Epistolary Novel

Cover of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Cover of This Is How You Lose the Time War

Read a Novel Featuring Ability Diverse Characters

Read a Book Written Over 100 Years Ago

Cover of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Read a Book of Poems or Essays

Cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Read an Own Voices Book Set Outside the U.S.

Cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Cover of The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

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Helping You Meet Those Reading Goals

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

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Read a Book About a Lesser-Known Historical Event

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

The Cold Millions

The Huntress: A Novel

Read a Book from our Steinem Sisters Collection

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Recollections of My Nonexistence

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Read a Novel by a LGBTQ+ Author

The City in the Middle of the Night

The Thirty Names of Night

The Death of Vivek Oji

Read a Novel by a Latinx Author

Mexican Gothic

A Long Petal of the Sea : A Novel

The Book of Lost Saints

Read a Book by an Ohioana Book Award Winner

All the Light we Cannot See: A Novel

Little Fires Everywhere

The Volunteer

Read a Book Written by an Author from Toledo

Inspiration in my Shoes

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

A Dirty Job

Read 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

The Hate U Give

Thirteen Reasons Why: A Novel

Read a Novel by an Indigenous Author

The Night Watchman: A Novel

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Black Sun

Read a Novel Featuring a Character with a Mental Illness

The Midnight Library

Everything Here is Beautiful: A Novel

Every Last Word

Read a Book with a Nature Theme

Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Read a Book That’s Been Adapted into a Movie/TV Series

The Duke and I

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel

Lovecraft Country

Read 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

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Last Tang Standing

Read a Novel Featuring Ability Diverse Characters

The Kiss Quotient

A Piece of the World: A Novel

Me Before You: A Novel

Read a Book Written Over 100 Years Ago

Hunger

The Book of Khalid

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Read a Book of Poems or Essays

Whiskey Words & A Shovel II

Wow, No Thank You: Essays

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Read an Own Voices Book Set Outside the U.S.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood