Adult summer reading club 2024
Relax with a good book this summer... and win prizes for doing it! The adult summer reading club is back, so join in the fun by completing challenges and entering weekly prize draws.
This year’s grand prize draw is for a Kobo ereader!
Not sure where to start? Check out this booklist. Each book fulfills at least two challenges!
Quick links
Club information
- Complete a reading challenge and then submit your challenge via the blue button below. You can also submit challenges in person at the 2nd or 3rd floor desks.
- To be eligible to win prizes, you must register for the adult reading club online via the green button above, or in person at the 2nd or 3rd floor desks.
- Each completed challenge gets you an entry into that week’s prize draw, as well as into the grand prize draw at the end of the summer.
- Every five completed challenges count as an additional entry into the grand prize draw.
- Draws are every Friday from July 12 to Aug. 23 and the Grand Prize draw is on Aug. 30.
- One book or activity can be counted for multiple challenges. Each challenge may only be completed once per person.
- Challenges may be completed in any order.
- This challenge is open to anyone 17+. Older teens are welcome to complete the Adult Summer Reading Challenge and the Teen Summer Reading Challenge at the same time.
- All book formats can be counted towards the challenge, including ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, or however else you like to read!
Submit your challenge completion form to be eligible for weekly prize draws!
- Read the first book in a series
- Read a book by a BIPOC author
- Read a book outside
- Read a book by a 2SLGBTQIA+ author
- Read a book by a North Shore author
- Cook a recipe from a cookbook
- Read a book set in a different time period
- Read a book published in 2024
- Visit our library's seed library and check out some seeds
- Listen to an audiobook or podcast
- Read a book from a different culture
- Read a romance
- Read a book translated from another language
- Attend a program or event at City Library or in The Plaza
- Read a book with an Indigenous protagonist
- Read a genre you've never tried before
- Read a nonfiction book
- Build a puzzle or play a board game
- Read a magazine or newspaper
- Read a book set on another continent
- Borrow a birding or hiking backpack from City Library
- Read a book that's been adapted into a movie or TV show
- Read your favourite genre
- Read a mystery
- Read a book set in the summer
The Sign for Home
A Novel
The Water Dancer
A Novel
My Brilliant Friend
Book One, Childhood, Adolescence
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Novel
Fire Weather
The Making of A Beast
The Book of Charlie
Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life of A 109-year-old Man
Bad Cree
A Novel
Upcoming events
Authors & writers
Keiko Honda: How do we bloom, not just survive, in chaos?
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Book clubs
Adult book club: "A Grandmother Begins the Story"
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
