Summer Reading Challenge: Double-point Books

Our Summer Reading Challenge has begun!

Readers have a chance to win two guaranteed seats to the 2026 Memoir Lecture with Roxane Gay! Each book read is worth one raffle ticket in the grand prize drawing.

But the real goals here are to have some literary adventures and make some new friends at the Library. So some books, ones connected to Library programs, are worth two raffle tickets.

Here's a complete list of double-point books:

• The Business of Being A Writer, Jane Friedman
• Miracle Cure, William Rosen
• The Sojourn, Andrew Krivak
• Tore All to Pieces, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
• American Men, Jordan Ritter Conn
• Bloodroom, Kay Bancroft
• The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
• The Odyssey, Homer (tr. Daniel Mendelsohn)
• Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
• The Long Season, Jim Brosnan
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee
• The Chicken Runs at Midnight, Tom Friend
• To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• The Palace of Illusions, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burker
• Make Believe, Mac Barnett
• The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh
• Sounds Like Trouble to Me, Jean Trounstine