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Winter Reading Challenge: Live Laugh Library

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Join the Winter Reading Challenge and Live Laugh Library!

January 2, 2025 - February 28, 2025

What better way to spend your winter than with a reading challenge? Complete ten hours of reading and be entered into a drawing to win a gift card from The Library Store.

How do you play?

  • Register and track your progress online or on the Beanstack Tracker App, or pick up a game board at any Los Angeles Public Library location.
  • Read for 15 minutes and then color in a circle.
  • When all the circles are colored in, the challenge is complete!

Winter Reading Challenge: Books for Adults

  • Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

    Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

    Sloan, Robin
  • The Case of the Missing Books

    The Case of the Missing Books

    Sansom, Ian
  • Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World

    Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World

    Myron, Vicki
  • Love at First Book

    Love at First Book

    McKinlay, Jenn
  • The Book Charmer

    The Book Charmer

    Hawkins, Karen
  • The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel

    The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel

    Natsukawa, Sōsuke
  • The Last Chance Library

    The Last Chance Library

    Sampson, Freya
  • The Lending Library

    The Lending Library

    Fogelson, Aliza
  • The Librarianist

    The Librarianist

    deWitt, Patrick
  • The Library at the Edge of the World

    The Library at the Edge of the World

    Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
  • The Library Book

    The Library Book

    Orlean, Susan

    On the surface, The Library Book is about the history of the Los Angeles Public Library, particularly about the devastating fire

  • The Library of Borrowed Hearts

    The Library of Borrowed Hearts

    Gilmore, Lucy
  • The Library of Lost and Found

    The Library of Lost and Found

    Patrick, Phaedra
  • The Littlest Library

    The Littlest Library

    Alexander, Poppy
  • The Personal Librarian

    The Personal Librarian

    Benedict, Marie
  • The Reading List: A Novel

    The Reading List: A Novel

    Adams, Sara Nisha
  • The Strange Library

    The Strange Library

    Murakami, Haruki
  • Upright Women Wanted

    Upright Women Wanted

    Gailey, Sarah

    Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow (man-eating hippo mayhem!,) and last year’s excellent Magic

  • What You are Looking for is in the Library

    What You are Looking for is in the Library

    Aoyama, Michiko

Winter Reading Challenge: Books for Teens

Winter Reading Challenge: Books for Kids


This program was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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