We invite you to join the BPL Adult Summer Reading Club 2024!

No matter your reading tastes, habits, and goals, we hope reading brings you joy, relaxation, and fulfillment this summer. Pick up your BPL Adult Summer Reading booklet from the second floor Information Desk.

Use your booklet to keep track of your reading challenges. When you have completed a challenge, bring your booklet to the second floor Information Desk to report your reading and enter the draw.  Visit us throughout the summer to claim your entries and tell us what you've been reading.  You can also submit your challenges using the form at the bottom of this page.

Guidelines:

• Complete as few or as many challenges as you’d like.
• For each reading challenge you complete you can earn 1 entry to win fun prizes.
• The same book cannot be used to complete more than one challenge.
• It’s 100% okay to abandon a book if you are not enjoying it.

Be sure to have your entries in before these dates! All entries will stay in the ballot box after each draw.

• July 16: Mid-Summer Prize #1 (book bag, mug, socks, $25 Indigo gift card))
• August 13: Mid-Summer Prize #2 (book bag, mug, socks, $25 Indigo gift card))
• August 31: Grand Prize (book bag, mug, socks, $50 Indigo gift card)

Adult Summer Reading Club Bash: Saturday, August 24 at 2pm

Celebrate with us! Chat with fellow readers about the challenges you completed and the books you enjoyed (and the ones you didn’t love) over the summer. There will be treats and special draw prizes for ASRC participants!

Everyone is welcome to join the club and pick up a booklet. A valid Belleville Public library card is required to enter the prize draws.

We encourage you to try something new this summer. You might just find your new favourite author, genre or format!

Need help finding books that fit a challenge? Check out the booklists below, or call, email or visit the library. We are always delighted to help you find something based on your readings tastes. 

Booklists on our online catalogue:

• Retelling – Retellings of myths, folklore, fairy tales or classic novels  
• So it Begins – Books that are the first in a series  
• New Release – Some popular books published in 2024
• Future Fiction – Books that take place in the future
• Short and Sweet – Short story collections
• Not Lost in Translation – Translated books
• Time Travel – Books that involve time travel
• Based on a True Story – Fiction based on real people or events
• Words and Images –  Graphic novels
• Non-Fiction and more – Popular non-fiction reads
• Yours Truly - Epistolary novel (books written in letters between characters)
• Try YA – Popular Young Adult reads
• Nostalgia – Classic children’s fiction
• Shhhhh – Books with “secret” in the title
• Page to Screen – Books that have been adapted to film or television
• Are We There Yet? – Road trip stories
• Evergreen - The 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen nominees
• Challenge Accepted and more – Books that have been challenged in North America

 

Between June 17 and August 31, fill out the form below to let us know which reading challenges you have completed. You can report multiple reading challenges at a time.

Remember: 

• For each reading challenge you complete you will earn 1 entry to win fun prizes.
• The same book cannot be used to complete more than one challenge.

 

First Name*

Last Name*

Email Address*

Which challenge(s) did you complete? *

What did you read for the challenge(s)?*

What is your library card number?

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