The 2020 reading challenges are here!

This year, we’re welcoming back the Everyone Has Read it Except Me challenge. We also introduced a new reading challenge with twelve separate categories to help you read throughout the year. You can choose to complete one or both challenges – there’s no right or wrong way to read!

Each month, we will highlight books in one of the categories. These aren’t the only books we have available in each category but are ideas that can help you spark inspiration, help clarify the category, and (hopefully) make your decision easier.

We’re escaping the cold winter weather this month by reading a book set at the sea! 

Featured below are eighteen fiction and non-fiction books set at sea that are sure to provide enough adventure and escapism to warm even the coldest winter day.

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Day Four by Sarah Lotz

Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Title Wave by Lorna Barrett

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child

The 2019 Reading Challenges are here!  Are you struggling with what to read in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Reading Challenge categories? We can help! Throughout the year, we will highlight several juvenile, YA, and adult fiction (or non-fiction) books in most of the categories.

These aren’t the only books we have available in each category but are ideas that can help you spark inspiration, help clarify the category, and (hopefully) make your decision easier.

We’re continuing our discussion of books with the category “A book by two (or more!) authors.”

What’s better than a book with one author? A book with two (or more) — the more the merrier!  Below, we’ve highlighted some great books that really show two (or more) heads are better than one!

FaceOff by David Baldacci

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War by Jessica Brockmole, Hazel Gaynor, Evangeline Holland, Marci Jefferson, Kate Kerrigan, Jennifer Robson, Heather Webb, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig

Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Happy Reading!