Adult summer reading challenge 2025

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Adult summer reading challenge illustration with pizza box and pizza slices

Read books, complete activities, win prizes. Tasty!

It’s back again! Join us for books, fun, sun, chats…and pizza.

Registration opens Monday, June 30. You can register online or in person at the 2nd and 3rd floor info desks in City Library.

How to play

Grab a slice of the action! Each book you read and activity you complete equals a slice of pizza.

Track your slices using challenge slips and your personal challenge checklist, available in your registration package.

Fill in a paper challenge slip or submit online to track your progress each time you finish a book or activity. Then, mark it off on your checklist. Each slice also equals one entry into our prize draws! More info on those tasty prizes to come!

Variety is the spice of life

When you fill in your challenge slip, tell us which challenges you completed. Each challenge matches a different pizza topping.

How many toppings can you put on your pizza? Will you make the tastiest pizza of the summer?

Six slices make a whole pie

When you put your 6th challenge slip in for the summer, you earn a bonus entry in the grand prize draws. That’s seven entries total for every six slices!

Reading challenges

Read a book published in 2025

Read a book by a North Shore author

Read a summer-themed book

Read outside

Read a fantasy genre book

Visit the seed library and check out some seeds

Read with a friend or family member

Read a genre you never tried before

Reread a favourite book from your early years

Play a game — board, puzzle, video, crossword

Read a book set in a place you want to visit

Attend a program or event at City Library or in Civic Plaza

Read a book by a BIPOC author

Read about a hobby you've always wanted to try

Find a newspaper article from the year you were born

Cook a recipe from a book

Read a book with a 2SLGBTQIA+ protagonist

Read a banned book

Check out a birdwatching backpack

Read a book you never finished — or hated!

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