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Adult Reading Challenge

Adult Reading Challenge (ARC)

Winter 2025–26

Winter 2025-26, Adult Reading Challenge: Sapphire Spring

Are You Up for the Challenge?

Join us for the fall season of the Adult Reading Challenge! Bookmarks with 10 reading prompts will be available at all KPL locations, or print one here (PDF).

Read a book, or listen to an audiobook, of your choice for 3 of the 10 prompts listed below to earn a prize. If you need inspiration, check out the collections hyperlinked in the reading prompts below. After you’ve read three or more books from the challenge, claim your prize by either:

  • Filling out your bookmark and bring it to any branch to trade it in for your prize, or
  • Fill out the online form below then come into any branch to claim your prize.

Prizes

Each quarter (winter, spring, summer, and fall) will feature a custom seasonal pin design. Collect all four and show them off for bragging rights!

Prizes can be claimed at any KPL location at branch circulation desks or the reference desk on the 1st floor of Central Library beginning December 1.

Adult Reading Challenge Winter 2025-26 Winter Sapphire Spring enamel pin

Reading Prompts

  1. A book from a library display
  2. A novel set during wartime
  3. A book written by a Mexican or Mexican-American author
  4. A book set in at least two different time periods
  5. A book with a wintery cover
  6. Build a pillow fort and read a cozy mystery or romance book inside it!
  7. A book with a song lyrics in the title
  8. A book by multiple authors
  9. A book about social justice issues
  10. A book that is a retelling of a classic

Online ARC Log

  • Which book(s) did you read?