Looking for some summer reads? Read 5 books on the list of novels that inspired Oscar-nominated films by August 6th, and receive a free book and mug! Visit raycountylibrary.beanstack.org to sign up and view the full list.
Qualifying books include:
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northrup
What We Talk about when We Talk about Love - Raymond Carver
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
Q & A - Vikas Swarup
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
The Last Manchu - Puyi
Mrs. Miniver - Jan Struther
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
Gentleman's Agreement - Laura Z. Hobson
Howards End - E. M. Forster
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
Argo - Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century - Jessica Bruder
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
To log your books online:
Go to raycountylibrary.beanstack.org
Scroll down to log in or create an account
Your username is your full library card number (929XXXXXXX)
Your default password is: beanstack
Visit the Oscar-Worthy Reads challenge section and log at least 5 of the listed books.
Original source can be found here.
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