Read Great Things Challenge

• A book being turned into a movie or tv show in 2018
• A biography, autobiography, memoir, or a fictionalized account of a real person's life
• A book about or that features sports
• A book of poetry or a book written in verse
• A book you previously started or were assigned and never finished
• A book that takes place in a country or place you'd like to visit
• A book you chose for the cover
• A book that takes place during or is about a historical event 50 years or more in the past [1968 or before]
• A popular science book [nonfiction books that talk about scientific topics from a non-textbook point-of-view]
• A book with a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event
• A book about cooking or food
• A book suggested by a Durham Tech librarian either in-person or on the Durham Tech Library Blog

Each year, winners of the Read Great Things Challenge can opt into getting a prize to celebrate their accomplishment.

The 2018 prize was a tote bag with a book stack and/or a button with your reading mascot animal.

On the tote bag, each book in the stack has an image representing one of the categories.

The reading mascot buttons had nine different options: a penguin (for loyal readers of one book at a time), a dinosaur (reader of history/historical fiction), a jellyfish (just cool tbh), a squirrel (book collector/TBR list builder), a cheetah (fast reader), a raccoon (reader of "trash," but really trash is quite clever and enjoyable isn't it?), an octopus (reader of many genres), a sloth (slow and steady reader), and a bee hive (fan of reading with others, book clubs, or community reading). Or you could just pick the animal you liked the best.