Summer 2025

Reading Challenge

Here’s the plan, Stans.

  • Sign Up

    Fill out this quick form to let us know you’re in. (It’s, like, gentle accountability.)

  • Choose 5 Books

    Take this list to your local library, or buy from us at a steal of a deal. ⬇️

  • Read Them

    As you finish each book, let us know by tagging us on social media to get a gold star.

  • Get Snail Mail

    Finish your 5 books by September 15 to get Double Dog swag.

The deal:
Buy 4, get 1 free.

This assumes you’re snagging all your Summer Challenge books at once. If that’s too spendy, no sweat: Go one at a time and we’ll send over a coupon after your fourth purchase. Just make sure you’re registered for the challenge.

  • If you’re local*, we’ll hand-deliver your books to you.

  • If you’re allllmost local, you can have your books shipped to you, or when your order arrives you can fetch them at an upcoming event.

  • If you’re a farther-away friend, you get to pay $12 in shipping. (Booo. We know.)

  • Audiobook humans, sign up for a Libro.fm membership to get two of your books for free.

Depending on where you are in the world, your books may take a minute to arrive—maybe even, like, 10 days’ worth of minutes. But supporting your local indie bookshop makes it worth the wait, right? (The answer is yes. It does.)

*Local means Wentzville, Flint Hill, Wright City, Foristell, Lake Saint Louis, Dardenne Prairie, or O’Fallon.

View all challenge books on this page, or tap a button for a specific genre. Tap the cover for details.

Summer Reading Challenge

A Curious Beginning
$19.00
WANT.
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
$18.00
WANT.
All Boys Aren't Blue
$12.99
WANT.
The Art of Gathering
$18.00
WANT.
The Berry Pickers
$17.95
WANT.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
$19.00
WANT.
The Bone Season
$19.99
WANT.
Braiding Sweetgrass
$22.00
WANT.
The Bright Years
$27.99
WANT.
The Color Purple
$18.00
WANT.
Credence
$18.00
WANT.
Crying in H Mart
$17.00
WANT
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
$18.00
WANT.
Demon Copperhead
$21.99
WANT.
Done and Dusted
$17.99
WANT.
Educated
$20.00
WANT.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Contributor(s): Sheldrake, Merlin (Author)
$20.00
WANT.
The Fabric of Our Souls
$17.99
WANT.
Far From the Tree
$24.99
WANT.
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
$18.00
WANT.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
$19.00
WANT.
First-Time Caller
$19.00
WANT.
The Forbidden Daughter
$19.99
WANT.
The Frozen River
$18.00
Want.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$16.95
WANT.
Gideon the Ninth
$19.99
WANT.
The Good Part
$18.00
WANT.
Great Big Beautiful Life
$29.00
WANT.
Grief is for People
$18.00
WANT.
Half a Soul
$18.99
WANT
Happily Never After
$18.00
WANT.
Here Beside the Rising Tide
$17.99
WANT.
Hidden Pictures
$17.99
WANT.
Hood Feminism
$17.00
WANT.
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
$21.99
WANT.
How to End a Love Story
$18.99
WANT.
How to Solve Your Own Murder
$18.00
WANT.
I Who Have Never Known Men
$16.95
WANT.
Just for the Summer
$17.99
WANT.
Just Mercy
$20.00
WANT.
Killers of a Certain Age
$19.00
WANT.
Kindred
$17.00
WANT.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
$18.99
WANT.
Martyr!
$18.00
WANT.
The Ministry of Time
$18.99
WANT.
Murder by Cheesecake
$16.99
WANT.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
$19.99
WANT.
One Golden Summer
$19.00
WANT.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
$12.00
WANT.
The Paradise Problem
$17.99
WANT.
The Patron Saint of Liars
$19.00
WANT.
Pretty Girls
$19.99
WANT.
The Quarry Girls
$15.95
WANT.
The Reason I Jump
$19.00
WANT.
Red, White & Royal Blue
$16.99
WANT.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
$19.99
WANT.
Right on Cue
$18.00
WANT.
Romantic Comedy
$18.00
WANT.
Sandwich
$18.99
WANT.
Sociopath: A Memoir
$19.99
WANT.
Starter Villain
$18.99
WANT.
Swept Away
$19.00
WANT.
Symbiote
$18.99
WANT.
Thick
$16.99
WANT.
This is How You Lose the Time War
$17.99
WANT.
The Vanishing Half
$18.00
WANT.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
$19.00
WANT.
We Solve Murders
$19.00
WANT.
The Winemaker's Wife
$18.99
WANT.
The Worst Best Man
$18.99
WANT.
Why We Sleep
$18.00
WANT.