Adult Summer Reading Program

Beginning June 1, track your progress at lacnm.beanstack.org or on the Beanstack iOS/Android app. Library staff can help you with your Beanstack account and with tracking your progress, even if you don't own a computer. Once you have registered, come in to one of the libraries to pick up your registration prize! Registration prizes this year include (while supplies last): sturdy canvas tote bag, farmers market produce mesh bag, recipe card collection, red chile pen, or garden tool pouch.

Explore the challenges on Beanstack and start collecting badges in Beanstack by completing an activity in each challenge. For every badge you collect, you'll also be collecting tickets in Beanstack to enter prize drawings. Share your challenge activities.  Tag us on Instagram or Facebook or send pictures and details to libweb@losalamosnm.gov

Log your reading during the challenge to collect more badges. Explore suggested titles from our reading lists or choose your own books to read. And yes, audiobooks count as reading!

Once you've collected tickets, enter your tickets into the prize drawings on Beanstack. You can spend all your tickets on one prize or spread them among the many prizes.  This year we will have 5 grand prizes:

• Plant a Seed, Cultivate Your Garden: Indoor Garden Bundle:  a combination of terracotta pots, grow kits in wood boxes, assorted herb seeds, a watering can, a mini garden tool kit, and for those who lack the green thumb, a bonsai 3-D puzzle.

• Plant a Seed, Grow Your Art: Botanical-themed Art Bundle: a canvas tote bag filled with botanical themed art supplies, a green Leuchtturm notebook, a leather leaf shaped bookmark, plant scented bookmarks, and a daisy patterned sashiko embroidery mending set.

• Plant a Seed, Kindle Your Curiosity: Kindle Paperwhite Bundle:  a 12th generation Kindle Paperwhite with 16 GB of storage. The prize also includes a beautiful jade green fabric cover to protect your new Paperwhite.

• Plant a Seed, Read: Book Bundle 1:  a canvas tote bag packed with inspiring reads celebrating trailblazing New Mexican women including Georgia O’Keeffe, Esther Martinez, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the women scientists of the Manhattan Project. But that’s not all: the bag also includes a copy of the National Book Award–winning Soldiers and Kings by Jason de León. And to top it off, you’ll find a $100 gift card to our local bookstore, Samizdat.

• Plant a Seed, Read: Book Bundle 2: a tote bag packed with inspiring reads celebrating trailblazing New Mexican women including Peggy Pond Church, Nina Otero Warren, Laura Gilpin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the women scientists of the Manhattan Project. But that’s not all: each bag also includes a copy of the National Book Award–winning Soldiers and Kings by Jason de León. And to top it off, you’ll find a $100 gift card to our local bookstore, Samizdat.

Complete all the challenges by July 26, and you'll collect one last completion badge. Congratulations you've conquered our Summer Reading Program!

The drawings for the prizes will occur on Beanstack after the challenge has been closed. Winners will be contacted directly and announced on the Los Alamos Public Library's social networks. Prizes must be collected in person. 

Click on the images below to see the recommended reading list for each challenge.