52 Book Challenge

This year we're doing a 52 book challenge! We hope you follow along, and join us by taking the challenge yourself. You can borrow from our list or create your own! 

When we first opened the bookstore, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was a little nervous answering questions and holding conversations about books from unfamiliar genres. We all have the books that speak to us, and others that feel like foreign languages. There's nothing wrong with that!

Over the past few months though, I made it a goal to broaden my reading horizons, and I want to continue that resolution into the next year! Therefore, I'm challenging myself to read 52 books in 2026 (I'm counting books read in December of this year....it's not cheating...okay, maybe it is a little, but we all have lives so get off my back!). To spice up the challenge even more, we'll pull books from all the different genres Birdwhistell Books has to offer.

Here is the list that we will update every month throughout the year. The good thing about this challenge is that once the book is finished, it goes right onto our shelves ready for the next reader! I hope you create your own list to share with us so we can see what we should read next!
  
General / Literary Fiction: 1/10

1. ​Audition by Katie Kitamura - Slow-burn look at the roles people play and the narratives we construct. It's not a mystery but you begin the book thinking the story is one thing and then it completely flips. 

Mystery/Thriller: _/5
Si-Fi / Fantasy: _/5
Kentucky: 1/5

1. Pauline's by Pauline Tabor - The memoir of the Madam of Clay Street in Bowling Green, KY! If you like the Bluegrass Conspiracy and The Cornbread Mafia then you need to read this one as well, and it's actually really well written too.

Romance: _/3
Poetry & Plays: _/3
Classics: _/3
Memoir & Biography: _/3
Religion & Philosophy: _/3
History: _/3
Society & Culture: _/3
Science & Nature: _/3
Arts, Culture, and Sports: _/3

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