Summer Reading Challenge Kick-Off Event

Summer Reading Kick-off Event

Read books, make friends, earn prizes!

Our Summer Reading Challenge is an opportunity to meet your fellow Mercantile members, and have some literary adventures along the way. We'll be raffling off tickets to one of our always sold-out Signature Series lectures. You can get some personalized recommendations to load up your TBR. And there'll be free T-shirts. What could be better?

WHEN

• June 1 through August 1

• Join us at 6 p.m. June 8 for a Kick-off Party where you can meet other readers, get your book tracker, and ask our librarians for personalized recommendations

• We’ll celebrate our summer of reading with a Wrap-up Party, 6 p.m. August 3!

HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS

• Keep track of every book you read June 1 through August 1

• One book = one raffle ticket in our grand prize drawing

• Select books, including Make Believe by Mac Barnett, our 2026 Innovation speaker, count for two raffle tickets

• Grand prize is two tickets to the 2026 Memoir Lecture with Roxane Gay!

Questions? Email hillary@mercantilelibrary.com