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Omaha Reading Challenge 2023: Read a book from OPL's Top Shelf lists

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list features titles that have been on one of OPL's annual Top Shelf lists. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

26 items

  • Girly Drinks

    a World History of Women and Alcohol

    O'Meara, Mallory,
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2021] — 394.1 O'Meara 2021
  • Cultish

    the Language of Fanaticism

    Montell, Amanda,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — 306.44 Montell 2021
  • BookNew York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — FICTION Davidson 2022
  • BookToronto : ECW Press, 2020. — FICTION Shraya 2020
  • BookNew York : One World, [2020] — FICTION Peters 2020
  • BookNashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021] — FICTION Turner 2021
  • Book[New York, New York] : Viking, [2021] — B Henderson 2021
  • BookNew York : Berkley, 2021. — SCIENCE FICTION Pinsker 2021
  • Ladder to the Light

    An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage

    Charleston, Steven, 1949-
    BookMinneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2021] — 970.3 Charlest 2021
  • Humor, Seriously

    Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life and How Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.

    Aaker, Jennifer Lynn,
    BookNew York : Currency, [2021] — 152.4 Aaker 2021
  • The Cold Vanish

    Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

    Billman, Jon,
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. — 363.2336 Billman 2020
  • The Elements of a Home

    Curious Histories Behind Everyday Household Objects, From Pillows to Forks

    Azzarito, Amy,
    BookSan Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books LLC, [2020] — 645 Azzarito 2020
  • BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2020. — FICTION Bennett 2020
  • You Were Born for This

    Astrology for Radical Self-acceptance

    Nicholas, Chani,
    BookNew York, NY : HarperOne, [2020] — 133.5 Nicholas 2020
  • Disability Visibility

    First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — 305.9 Disabili 2020
  • Good Talk

    a Memoir in Conversations

    Jacob, Mira, 1973-
    Graphic NovelNew York : Random House, [2019] — GRAPHIC NOVEL B Jacob
  • BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — YAFICTION Mahurin