Welcome to Sages Read 2021!

Below, you will find 20 challenges for this year. Watch this space for information on how to sign up to track your reading as you meet those challenges and earn a few incentives along the way.

This year we'd also like to hear from you. More information will be shared on our social media pages about how you can send recommendations for us to share. As always, you're welcome to use the #SagesRead hashtag if you'd like to share on your own. 

1. Read a book about love
   
2. Read a book by a local/regional author or illustrator
   
3. Read a book recommended by a teacher, librarian, or bookseller
   
4. Read a memoir by a BIPOC author (BIPOC: black, indigenous, and people of color)
   
5. Read a book set in Illinois
   
6. Read an #OwnVoices book with LGBTQ characters (#OwnVoices: the author shares a diverse, minority, or marginalized trait with the main character/perspective) 
   
7. Read a book about books
   
8. Read a picture book or graphic novel
   
9. Read a retelling of a classic (fairytale, myth, Shakespeare, Austen, etc.)
   
10. Read a book that you wouldn't normally pick up based on the cover 
    
11. Read a book about science
    
12. Read an #OwnVoices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain
    
13. Read a book that features a bilingual character
    
14. Read a mystery by an author you've never read before
    
15. Read a book featuring a holiday that you don't celebrate
    
16. Read a book that helps you connect with nature
    
17. Read a book that features engineering, technology, or math
    
18. Read a nonfiction history or historical fiction book not set in WWII
    
19. Read a science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman
    
20. Read a middle grade or children’s book (not YA) that has won a diversity award (Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Jane Addams Children’s Books Awards, Stonewall Book Awards, etc.)