Curtis Memorial Library will be hosting an Adult Winter Reading Bingo Challenge in 2025. The Winter Reading Challenge encourages busy adults to delight in the joy of books during the dark months of winter. Starting on January 6, participants can pick up a BINGO board in person at the second floor Help Desk or print one here. Turn in your completed card by March 31 for a chance to win the one of the four $25 gift certificates to Gulf of Maine bookstore.

Complete any five challenge activities in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to create a BINGO. When returning the completed BINGO sheet, make sure to include contact information. On April 1st, we will be drawing 4 random names to receive a prize.

Need book suggestions? We have included some suggestions below, but make sure to check out our first floor displays in the Library.

A Book Set in a Warm Climate

The Lost Man by Jane Harper
All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
Sufside Sisters by Nancy Thayer
The Siren by Katherine St. John
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Naked Came the Florida Man by Tim Dorsey

A Goodreads Readers’ Choice Pick

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Poverty by Matthew Desmond
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

A Book that is less than 200 pages

Wildlife by Richard Ford
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The American Wife by Elaine Ford
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
We have always lived in a castle by Shirley Jackson

A Book that has been adapted into a Movie/TV Series

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Room by Emma Donoghue
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

 

Happy reading!