A New Fall Reading Challenge!    Open to ages 13-113, Starts Sept 1st!

Go to atchisonlibrary.beanstack.org or your Beanstack app to enroll in this fall reading challenge which gives you ten types of books to try!
This fall you'll read

• a banned book
• a biography or memoir
• a book turned into film or television
• a book about food
• a book translated from another language
• a book with a long title
• one by a Native American author
• one on the Staff Picks list below
• a book having to do with another country
• and a young adult book

What could you win?

Everyone who completes the challenge will get a free book

BUT

We will be drawing

One adult to receive a $50 Riverhouse Restaurant

AND

One teen to receive a $50 Fox Theater gift card!

How do I register?

If you already have a Beanstack account (the same program we used for Summer Reading!) log in and join the 10 to Try challenge to get started!
If you did not do Summer Reading, go to atchisonlibrary.beanstack.org to make a Beanstack account and learn how to download the app onto your phone. Log your books and get your badges from your phone or tablet!

Staff Picks List

Kia-

1. American Gods- Neil Gaiman
2. Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert Heinlein
3. Dragonsdawn- Anne McCaffrey
4. A Spell for Chameleon- Piers Anthony
5. Death Come for the Archbishop- Willa Cather
6. A Grief Observed- C.S. Lewis
7. Cocaine Blues, a Phryne Fisher mystery- Kerry Greenwood
8. The Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Live in your Home- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
9. The Rowan- Anne McCaffrey
10. The Shining- Stephen King
11. Dracula- Bram Stoker
12. Alice Isn’t Dead - Joseph Fink
13. Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. The country of the pointed firs- Sarah Orne Jewitt
15. Gathering Blue- Lois Lowry
16. Uzumaki- Junji Ito
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

Emma-

1. Radiance- Catherynne M. Valente
2. The Mysterious Benedict Society- Trenton Lee Stewart
3. Dealing with Dragons- Patricia C. Wrede
4. Othello- William Shakespeare
5. Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo
6. Danny the Champion of the World- Roald Dahl
7. Princess of the Midnight Ball- Jessica Day George
8. Fablehaven- Brandon Mull
9. The Martian- Andy Weir

Grace-

1. The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien
2. Project Hail Mary- Andy Weir
3. Mr. Blue- Myles Connolly
4. Watership Down- Richard Adams
5. Jurassic Park- Michael Crichton
6. Bolivar- Sean Rubin
7. Escargot- Dashka Slater
8. Redwall- Brian Jacques
9. I, Robot- Isaac Asimov
10. The Soul of an Octopus- Sy Montgomery
11. Tyrannosaurus Sue- Steve Fiffer
12. The Secret Keepers- Trenton Lee Stewart
13. The Dark is Rising- Susan Cooper
14. Sherlock Holmes- Arthur Conan Doyle
15. The Lunar Chronicles- Marissa Meyer
16. Howl’s Moving Castle- Diana Wynne Jones

Liz

1.  Night Journey--Kathryn Lasky
2. Chronicles of Narnia--C.S. Lewis
3. Harry Potter Series--J.K. Rowling
4. Above the Bay of Angels--Rhys Bowen
5. The Winter Sea--Susanna Kearsley
6. Outlander Series--Diana Gabaldon
7. Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other--Sam Heughan
8. All the Wrong Questions Series--Lemony Snicket
9. Navigating Early Clare Vanderpool
10. Echo--Pam Munoz Ryan
11. Paris in the Present Tense and Soldier of the Great War (tie) by Mark Helprin
12. Anything by Dorothy Gilman or Agatha Christie
13. The Night Watchman--Louise Erdrich
14. Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman
15. Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman
16. Royal Spyness Series by Rhys Bowen

Patrick
1.      Claire Dewitt & The City of the Dead- Sara Gran
2.      The Thicket- Joe R. Lansdale
3.      Any of the Hap & Leonard books- Joe R. Lansdale
4.      The Buried Giant- Kazuo Ishiguro
5.      The Quiet American- Graham Greene
6.      The Grifters- Jim Thompson
7.      Moonglow- Michael Chabon
8.      Wizard & Glass (Dark Tower V.4)- Stephen King
9.      Horns-Joe Hill
10.  The Land of Laughs- Jonathan Carroll
11.  Jitterbug Perfume- Tom Robbins
12.  Good Omens- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
13.  Up In Honey’s Room- Elmore Leonard
14.  The Border Trilogy (1. The Power of the Dog, 2. The Cartel, 3. The Border)- Don Winslow
15.  The Spy and the Traitor- Ben Macintyre
16.  In The Heart of the Sea- Nathaniel Philbrick
17.  The Bully Pulpit- Doris Kearns Goodwin
18.  The Wax Pack- Brad Balukjian
19.  Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman
20.  The Inquisitor’s Tale- Adam Gidwitz
21.  His Dark Materials Trilogy (1. The Golden Compass, 2. The Subtle Knife, 3. The Amber Spyglass)- Philip Pullman
22. Bitter Root (GN Series)- Walker
23. Saga (GN Series)- Vaughan
24. Sandman (GN Series)- Gaiman
25. Baltimore (GN Series)- Mignola
26. Batman: The Long Halloween- Loeb
27. Superman: Red Son- Millar

Mary
1.The Martian-Andrew Weir
2. The Stand-King
3.Talking Gods-Hillerman Any in the Leaphorn/Chee series
4.Hell is Empty-Johnson  Any in the Longmire series
5.Mists of Avalon-Bradley
6.Finders-Burton
7.Sworn to Silence-Castillo Any in the Burkholder series
8.Open Season-Box Any in the Joe Pickett series
9.Stiff:  The Curious Life of the Human Cadaver-Roach
10.Grave Surprise-Charleaine Harris
11.Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time-Haddon
12.Sean Stranahan series-McCafferty
13. Virgil Flowers series-Sandford
14.Prey series-Sandford
15. The Last Apprentice-Delaney