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Adult Summer Reading Contest
Saturday July 1 2023 @ 12:00 am - Saturday September 2 2023 @ 11:59 pm
Win Book Prizes!!
Monthly draws through July and August.*
Download the Adult Summer Reading Game Board here or pick one up at the library.
List of Game Squares (also see full list below)
Game Guide
- Just email library@nelson.ca by the end of July and August with the game square you completed and what you read or did to complete it.
- You’ll earn one entry for every square!
Be sure to contact the Library if you need help finding or choosing materials!
*Last day to enter for prizes is Saturday Sept. 2nd
List of Game Squares
- Curious? NEW AUTHOR
- Be Rebellious BANNED BOOK
- travel BACK IN TIME
- book set in BC
- #BFF a book about friends
- play an OUTDOOR GAME
- read about the IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
- concert time! BOOK ABOUT MUSIC
- pets! BOOK WITH ANIMALS
- AUDIOBOOK
- time to cosplay! GRAPHIC NOVEL
- lead a life of CRIME
- read a book by a 2SLBGTQIA+ AUTHOR
- read a ROMANCE
- A ROAD TRIP book
- OUT of this world
- BEACHY read
- INDIGENOUS AUTHOR
- YA COLLECTION
- book with a NUMBER in the title
- re-read a KIDS BOOK
- joke time! FUNNY BOOK
- read a MEMOIR
- all the feelings! POETRY
- game day! SPORTS BOOK
- NON FICTION
- NYT ARTICLE
- EBOOK
- LIBRARY OF THINGS
- curious? NEW GENRE
- book about TRAVEL
- MOVIE NIGHT
- read OUTSIDE
- take out a GO PRO
- set in a DIFFERENT COUNTRY
- AWARD WINNER
- book UNDER 100 PAGES
- CANADIAN AUTHOR
- book about SUMMER
- book set in a LIBRARY
- SHORT STORY
- published in 2023
- published in the YEAR YOU WERE BORN
- BIOGRAPHY
- EBOOK
- sign up for KANOPY
- LOCAL AUTHOR
- curious? try an ONLINE COURSE
- SCARY! read a horror
- read ALOUD
- book about CLIMATE
- try a FANTASY
- read a MAGAZINE
- attend a LIBRARY EVENT
- REREAD something you love
- SHARE THIS GAME
- MOVIE NIGHT
- solve a MYSTERY
- book set in a SMALL TOWN
- read something WILD
- recommend to a FRIEND
- SHARE your favourite read this summer