Can you read 24 books in 2024?

Read one book in each of the 24 categories by December 26, 2024 & WIN a fabulous prize!

The BRPL Book Challenge and Reader Advisory returns for 2024. This year the challenge is expanded to 24 books! Need some help choosing your books? The Library staff is always ready to suggest books.

RULES

The BRPL challenge begins on January 1, 2024 & ends on Thursday, December 26, 2024. The challenge is open to cardholders of the BRPL.

One book per category, one category per book, for a total of 24 books read by December 26th.

Use the linked reading log to track your progress, or create your own log.

To be rewarded for completing the challenge, submit your completed log to the library by December 26 for staff verification.

Find all the categories listed below.

  1. 200 Pages or Fewer
  2. 400 Pages or More
  3. About a Real Person
  4. Any ebook, any audiobook, or re-read an old favorite
  5. Author’s Last Name Starts with a Vowel
  6. Author’s Photo on the Back Cover
  7. Blue Cover
  8. Book from a Series
  9. Book You Abandoned in the Past
  10. Classic You’ve Been Avoiding
  11. Country in the Title
  12. Genre-bending
  13. Made into a Movie/Show
  14. Magical Realism
  15. Published in 2023
  16. Read it for the Title
  17. Recently-deceased Author
  18. Revenge
  19. Seasonal
  20. Set During a War
  21. Spooky
  22. Sports
  23. Takes Place in a Foreign Country
  24. Three Words in the Title

Download your reading log here.

Live music fundraiser for the Library

Let’s get together and celebrate the new Bad Lands mural on the Library’s West Side! Artist, Marie Snavely, has completed a 80 x 10′ mural inspired by the North Dakota Bad Lands. We will have a grand opening on Sunday, July 24th with live music and refreshments to mark the occasion of this new art work in Bowman, North Dakota.

Music will be provide by the Brackel Family Band. It’s a free will offering with proceeds going to the Library’s Green Space project.

Here’s the details: Sunday, July 24th 2PM at the Library. Call or message the library for more details.