The 2026 Reading Challenge has begun! Every 10 books you read earns you a raffle ticket for a grand prize. Patrons who read 50 books by the end of the year will win Marshall Public Library swag. Registration and reading logs are available at our linktree. Happy Reading!
The challenge is to read 50 books in 50 weeks. However, the challenge is tiered to allow for different rewards at different checkpoints! Even if you aren’t sure you can read 50 books this year, it’s still worth trying to hit checkpoints. Each checkpoint completed earns a raffle ticket for the grand prize.
Categories are up to interpretation. If you can justify how it fits into the category, we’ll count it. You can use the title, author, setting, plot, or something on the cover to justify it. This is for fun, so don’t stress the details!
Registration is limited to teens. The youngest patrons for this challenge are students entering the 6th grade in the 2026-2027 school year. The oldest patrons must be 19 years of age for at least one day during 2026.
Finish and report completion by January 5th, 2027. No late entries will be accepted.
Record the books you finish! You may do so using this reading log, the Google Sheets log, or on a different method of your choosing. Record the title, indicate which category it matches, and give it a 1-5 star rating. Your completed log, whether online or on paper, must be shown to a librarian at the conclusion of the challenge.
Books you read for other programs, such as the YRCA book club or the MPL teen summer reading challenge may be used for this challenge as well. This includes book you read in school.
Audiobooks, manga, and graphic novels may be counted for the teen book challenge.
Participants who read 50 books and report before the deadline will be eligible for the teen reading challenge completion prize.
Prizes will not be ordered until the conclusion of the challenge and will be available for pick up after March 1st, 2027. The Marshall Public Library wil not ship prizes.