Reading Ideas

Booking Ahead: A year's worth of reading themes


Booking Ahead is Beaverton City Library’s year-long reading program!

You can participate by picking up a Booking Ahead passport at Beaverton City Library Main or Murray Scholls Branch.

Read or listen to books that fit the monthly themes, and enter to win monthly prizes and a Grand Prize at the end of the year.

Scroll through to see each month's theme:

January: Read a book that has been featured on a “Best Books of 2017” list.
February: Read a book with a main character who doesn’t look like you or live like you. #WeNeedDiverseBooks!
March: Read a book set in the decade in which you were born.
April: Read a story that invokes the immigrant experience (fiction or non-fiction).
May: Read a book by an Oregon author. 
June: Read a book set in a place to which you’ve always wanted to travel. 
July: Watch any movie based on a book. 
August: Read a book you choose based on the cover.
September: Be a rebel; read a book that has been challenged or banned in any country. 
October: Read the biography/memoir of someone you admire.
November: Read a book that will teach you a brand-new skill or enhance a skill you already have.
December: Read something you’ve always wanted to read but never got around to.