Welcome to the 2026 Online Reading Challenge!

Get ready for our eleventh year of reading recommendations with our super-casual, low-stress reading club! It is run online through the Davenport Library’s reference blog Info Café. You can also participate in the Online Reading Challenge through the Beanstack app!

Our theme for 2026 is Know Your History! Each month we will be reading about a different observance month (think Black History Month, for example) and highlighting a main title about that month. Besides the main title, we’ll have suggestions for additional books available on the Info Cafe Blog and on Beanstack, as well as many more on display at each of our buildings. You can choose to read the main book or alternate titles or even something else completely! At the end of the month I’ll write about the main title, pose some questions, and invite you to comment your observations about the title you read.

Of course, as always, you may do as you please – there are no Library Police! If you wish to skip a month or read more than one book in that month or read a book from a different month, go for it! No one will drag you off to Library Jail if you choose your own path!

The 2026 Online Reading Challenge begins on Friday, January 2nd. Be sure to follow the Info Café reference blog or the Online Reading Challenge on Beanstack for more information and updates!