Celebrate the coziest reading season with CDPL this winter! From December 27 through January 31, work on a winter reading bingo card to qualify for prizes!
How to get started
You can complete the entire challenge online!
Register/log online
Head to cdpl.readsquared.com to create your account or sign in to your previous account from summer reading.
Register/log on a phone/tablet
Download the app on Apple and Android phones/tablets–just search for ‘ReadSquared.’
Prefer paper?
Visit the Reference desk on the 2nd floor to pick up a bingo card.
The basics
1. Complete any 2 rows (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) and record the names of the books you read. Turn in your bingo card with 2 completed rows before January 31 at the reference desk to receive a reading gift!
2. Blackout your card (complete every square) and turn in before January 31 to be entered into the grand prize drawing!
3. You may read fiction or nonfiction for any challenge. Suggestion lists are shared on this page and on ReadSquared. You do not have to read one of our picks for it to count!
The challenges
Fiction or nonfiction, try a book that involves the Christmas holiday! There are plenty of genre reads if you prefer mysteries, romances, horror, or cozy fiction.
- View Holiday Classics on Hoopla
- View Holiday Mysteries on Hoopla
- View Holiday Romance on Hoopla
- View Christmas fiction on Libby
- The Christmas Train by David Baldacci | FIC Bal | LP FIC Bal | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss | FIC Bay | Ebook | Audiobook
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham | FIC Gri | LP FIC Gri | Ebook | Audiobook
- Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory | FIC Gui | Ebook | Audiobook
- In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren | FIC Lau | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Holiday Swap by Maggie Know | FIC Kno | Ebook
- The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman | FIC Shi | Ebook | Audiobook
- One Day in December by Josie Silver | FIC Sil | Ebook | Audiobook
Large Print Available
- The Christmas Train by David Baldacci | FIC Bal | LP FIC Bal | Ebook | Audiobook
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham | FIC Gri | LP FIC Gri | Ebook | Audiobook
Online only
- The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan | Ebook | Audiobook
- Nick and Noel’s Christmas Playlist by Codi Hall | Ebook
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher | Ebook | Audiobook
- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris | Ebook | Audiobook
- Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva | Ebook | Audiobook
- Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien | Ebook
Fiction or nonfiction, try a book that involves a wintertime holiday like Hanukkah, Diwali, or New Years! Dip your toes into something new and read about diverse wintertime holidays:
- Miracles and Menorahs by Stacey Agdern | FIC Agd (Hanukkah)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie | FIC Chr | Audiobook
- This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens | FIC Cou | Ebook | Audiobook (New Year’s Day)
- A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli | FIC Lal | Ebook | Audiobook (Diwali)
- The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer | FIC Mel | Ebook | Audiobook (Hanukkah)
- Oona Out Of Order by Margarita Montimore | FIC Mon | LP FIC Mon | CDBK FIC Mon | Ebook | Audiobook (New Year’s)
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith | FIC Smi | Ebook | Audiobook (New Year’s Eve)
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles | FIC Tow | Ebook | Audiobook (New Year’s Eve)
Large Print Available
- Oona Out Of Order by Margarita Montimore | FIC Mon | LP FIC Mon | CDBK FIC Mon | Ebook | Audiobook (New Year’s)
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney | LP FIC Roo | Audiobook (New Year’s)
Online only
- The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen | FIC All | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden | FIC Ard | Ebook | Audiobook
- Beartown by Frederik Backman | FIC Bac | LP FIC Bac | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin | FIC Ben | Ebook | Audiobook
- City of Thieves by David Benioff | FIC Ben | Audiobook
- If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino | FIC Cal | Ebook
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah | FIC Han | LP FIC Han | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey | FIC Ive | Ebook
- Snowblind and Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson | FIC Jon | Ebook | Ebook
- The Blizzard Party by Jack Living | FIC Liv
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Maara | FIC Maa | Ebook
- Winter People by Jennifer McMahon | FIC McMah | Ebook | Audiobook
- Blood on Snow and The Snowman by Jo Nesbo | FIC Nes | Audiobook
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik FIC Nov | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Terror by Dan Simmons | FIC Sim | Ebook | Audiobook
- Winter’s Bone by Danielle Woodrell | FIC Woo | Ebook | Audiobook
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent | LP FIC Ken | Ebook
Large Print Available
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson | FIC Atk | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict | FIC Ben | Ebook | Also on Hoopla
- The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye | FIC Fay | Ebook
- Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald | FIC Fit | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Paris Hours by Alex George | FIC Geo | Ebook | Audiobook
- Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston | FIC Hur | Ebook | Audiobook
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | FIC Mor | Ebook
- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine | FIC Val | Audiobook
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo | FIC Vo | Ebook
- A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams | FIC Wil | Ebook | Audiobook
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | FIC Woo | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine | 614.13 Blu | Ebook | Audiobook
- Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby | 813.52 Chu | Audiobook
- Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation | 920 Mac
- Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal | 920 Tay
Check out physical audiobooks at the library by browsing our Books on CD collection.
Click here to browse all audiobooks available on Hoopla.
Click here to browse all audiobooks on Libby/Overdrive.
Here are some popular titles and staff audio favorites if you’re not sure what to look for:
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty | CDBK FIC Mor | On Libby
- Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters | CDBK FIC Pet | On Libby | On Hoopla
- Educated by Tara Westover | CDBK 921 Westover | On Libby
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell | On Libby
- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah | CDBK FIC Han | On Libby
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | On Libby | On Hoopla
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman | On Libby
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon | CDBK FIC Gab | On Libby | On Hoopla
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates | CDBK FIC Coa | On Libby
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | CDBK FIC Owe | On Libby
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert | 153.3 Gil | LP 153.3 Gil | Ebook | Audiobook
- Creative Workshop by David Sherwin | 153.35 She
- Atomic Habits by James Clear | 155.24 Cle | Ebook | Audiobook
- How to Be Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable | 158.1 Ald
- You are a Badass by Jen Sincero | 158.1 Sin | Ebook | Audiobook
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown | 158 Bro | Ebook | Audiobook
- No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien | 158.7 Fos | Audiobook
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach | 294.3 Bra | Ebook | Audiobook | Also on Hoopla
- Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown | 305.8 Bro | LP 305.8 Bro | Ebook | Audiobook
- Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin | 332.024 Rob | Ebook | Audiobook
- You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham | 332.024 Mec | Ebook | Audiobook
- Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life by Suhas Kshirsagar | 612.022 Ksh | Ebook
- The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll | 640.43 Car | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo | 648 Kon | Ebook | Audiobook
- Real Life Organizing by Cassandra Aarssen | 648.5 Aar | Ebook | Audiobook
Large Print Available
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert | 153.3 Gil | LP 153.3 Gil | Ebook | Audiobook
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown | 158 Bro | Ebook | Audiobook
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes | LP 808.225 Rhi | Audiobook
Online Only
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi | Ebook
- Eat That Frog! 31 Ways to Stop Procrastinating by Brian Tracy | Ebook | Audiobook | Also on Hoopla
There are sooo many awards to choose from, do not feel like you have to choose from this list! Feel free to Google “2021 literary awards” and browse any awards list that looks interesting.
National Book Award for Fiction – Short List
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott *Winner | FIC Mot | Ebook
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | FIC Doe | Ebook | Audiobook
- Matrix by Lauren Groff | FIC Gro | Ebook | Audiobook
- Zorrie by Laird Hunt | FIC Hun | Ebook
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – Short List
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel *Winner | FIC Man | Ebook | Audiobook | Also on Hoopla
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | FIC O’Fa | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams | FIC Wil | Ebook | Audiobook
Women’s Prize for Fiction – Short List
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke *Winner | FIC Cla | Ebook
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi | FIC Gya | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | FIC Ben | Ebook | Audiobook
- How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones | FIC Jon | Ebook
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood | FIC Loc | Ebook
- Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller | FIC Ful | Ebook
Pulitzer Prize Winners
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Fiction) | On Libby | On Hoopla
- Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 (General Nonfiction) | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Biography) | Ebook | Audiobook
- Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Poetry)
Hugo Award Winners
- Network Effect by Martha Wells (Best Novel) | FIC Wel | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (Best Novella) | Ebook | Audiobook
- Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (Best Related Work) | 811.6 Hea | Audiobook
- The Murderbot Series by Martha Wells (Best Series) | FIC Wel
Children’s/Middle Grade Winners
- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Newbery Medal) | j FIC Kel | Ebook | Audiobook
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Caldecott Medal) | j E Lin | Ebook | Audiobook | Also on Hoopla
- Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (Coretta Scott King Award) | j FIC Woo | Ebook | Audiobook
GoodReads Choice Winners
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Fiction) | FIC Roo | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (Mystery/Thriller) | FIC Dav | Ebook | Audiobook
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical) | FIC Rei | Ebook | Audiobook
- A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (Fantasy) | FIC Maa | Ebook | Audiobook
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Romance) | FIC Hen | Ebook | Audiobook
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Sci-Fi) | FIC Wei | Ebook
- The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Horror) | FIC Hen | Ebook | Audiobook
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Memoir) | FIC Zau | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (Poetry) | FIC Gor | Ebook | Audiobook
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Young Adult) | FIC Bou | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Nonfiction) | FIC Gre | Ebook | Audiobook
- Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson (Humor) | FIC Law | Ebook | Audiobook
Large Print Available
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel | FIC Man | LP FIC Man | Ebook | Audiobook | Also on Hoopla
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | FIC O’Fa | LP FIC O’FA | Ebook | Audiobook
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | FIC Ben | LP FIC Ben | Ebook | Audiobook
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Sci-Fi) | FIC Wei | LP FIC Wei | Ebook
Read any nonfiction book that is new to CDPL. You can browse regular print new nonfiction on the 2nd floor and large print new nonfiction on the 1st floor. Our staff is happy to show you where these shelves are located if you’re unsure!
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