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Mary Havens: The Reading Challenge (TRC) 2024

Reference Librarian/Associate Professor

What is TRC?

  1. The Reading Challenge is a year long (January 1st - December 31st) challenge.
  2. Any book read during this challenge, that fulfills a category, applies!
  3. Only one book per category, please.
  4. It cannot be a book you have read before unless otherwise indicated (example: revisit a childhood favorite). 
  5. Once you sign-up, you will be added to a Google Sheet where you can keep track of what books you read.
  6. A list of suggested ACC titles is available. 

Questions? Email Mary at mary.havens@austincc.edu

Suggested Titles

man and woman in blue jackets with their backs turned

Locked Room Mystery Category - Anxious People by Frederick Backman

The 2024 Reading Challenge

illustration of woman on beach chair with book

Join TRC!

What are the categories?

**Categories can be completed in any order**

Essential

  1. Locked Room Mystery
  2. Ends on Odd Numbered Page
  3. Plot Contains Music
  4. Purple Cover
  5. Sets in a State You Live/d In
  6. Name in Title
  7. Becoming Movie/TV Show in 2024
  8. Treat Yo'Self (author you love)
  9. Short Read (poetry, novella, graphic novel, play)

Advanced (essential categories plus the following)

  1. Ends on Even Numbered Page
  2. Features Indigenous Culture
  3. Guilty Pleasure/Indulgent Read
  4. Set During a Holiday You Don't Celebrate
  5. Start/Finish/Continue a Series
  6. Published in the Year of the Dragon 
  7. Cover Without People on it
  8. Apostrophe in Title
  9. Title Starts with "L"
  10. Features Water
  11. Contains Cryptids/Monsters
  12. Young Adult
  13. Vacation Destination!
  14. Author of Asian Descent
  15. Banned/Challenged Book
  16. One Word Title
  17. Bottom of Your To-Read List
  18. Author from a Different Background Than Your Own
  19. Narrative Non-Fiction
  20. Picked for the Cover
  21. Secret, Secret, I've Got a Secret

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