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Omaha Reading Challenge 2025: Read a Book About or Featuring Books, a Bookstore, or a Library

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 contains titles about or featuring books, a bookstore, or a library. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • The Bookshop

    a History of the American Bookstore

    Friss, Evan,
    Book[New York City] : Viking, [2024] — 381.45 Friss 2024
  • BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — FICTION Liese 2024
  • BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FANTASY Brown 2024
  • Once Upon a Tome

    the Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller, Whereinthe Theory of the Profession Is Partially Explained, With a Variety of Insufficient Examples

    Darkshire, Oliver,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. — B Darkshire 2023
  • BookNew York : Simon and Schuster, 2018. — 027.47 Orlean 2018
  • BookNew York : Alcove Press, 2024. — FICTION Schwartz 2024
  • History in Flames

    the Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    Bartlett, Robert, 1950-
    BookCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 027.009 Bartlett 2024
  • Dear Genius

    the Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

    Nordstrom, Ursula,
    BookNew York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [1998] — 070.5 Nordstro 1998
  • Book and Dagger

    How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

    Graham, Elyse, 1985-
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 940.5486 Graham 2024
  • BookNew York, NY : A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FANTASY Baldtree 2023