Reading Ideas
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.
Want to participate from home? Submit an online form.
Scroll through to see each month's theme:
August: Celebrate serendipity! Read a book that you find serendipitously while browsing the shelves at the library or bookstore (or virtual library). Try and choose one that you’ve never heard of!
September: Read a book about an issue that is important to you.
October: Read a book that crosses genres (like a fantasy/mystery or romantic thriller).
November: Read a book in translation.
December: Read an epistolary novel (one that’s written as a series of letters, diary entries, or emails) or a non-fiction collection of letters.
January 2020: Read Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin, this year's One Book, One Beaverton pick.
February 2020: Read an #OwnVoices book. #OwnVoices refers to a book that was written by a member of a marginalized community that depicts that same community through its characters and setting.
March 2020: Celebrate Women’s History Month! Read a book by or about a woman/women in science (fiction or non-fiction).
April 2020: Read a book written by someone under 35 years of age.
May 2020: Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Read a book by an Asian, Pacific Islander, or Asian-American author.
June:
July: Read a travel adventure (fiction or non-fiction).