Start a NEW Reading Challenge!!
The annual Bookworms United Book Challenge begins January 2, 2026. Read 50 books in 50 categories and win a prize!*
The Bookworms United Challenge is a unique, fun way to promote reading in the community and give readers a chance to win prizes!
The challenge is open to all residents of Cascade County who own a library card. The library has culled a list of categories for people to read from, and each person who reads one book per category and one category per book for a total of 50 books by December 26, 2026.
People can pick up a reading log at the library or download the PDF to track their progress. starting on Jan. 2, 2026. Some of the categories include “200 pages or fewer,” “Published in 2026,” “Native American Author,” “Science Fiction,” “Book from Your TBR List” and “An Old Favorite,” among others.
To earn the prize for completing the challenge, one must submit their completed log to the library by December 28 for staff to verify. Books read for other reading programs, book clubs, or assignments can be counted toward the challenge, provided they fit into the categories. Books in print, audio and electronic formats all will be accepted for the challenge. For more questions about the Bookworms United program, contact Sarah Cawley at (406) 453-0349 ex. 209 or email her at scawley@greatfallslibrary.org.
*The first 50 people to complete the challenge will be eligible to receive an engraved wooden book log tracker/bookmark/ornament created by MNMImpressionsCo .
2025 Montana Book Award Nominees List
| The 2025 Montana Book Award Nominees | |
|---|---|
| Book Title | Author |
| Baited | Colleen O’Brien |
| The Silver Squad | Marty Essen |
| Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football | Rick Bass |
| Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West | Mark Sundeen |
| A History of Montana in 101 Places | The Montana Historical Society |
| The Mollys B. | Joann Howeth |
| If I Fall for You | Myra Johnson |
| Savage Malice | Kit Karson |
| Landscapes of a Montana Heart: Ballad of the Drover | C.G. Eberts |
| Indian Country | Shobha Rao |
| If I Had Said Beauty | Tami Haaland |
| Dinosaur Dreams | BJ Hollars |
| Rooted at the Edge | Donna L. Erickson |
| American Sky | James Grady |
| The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks | Fred Haefele |
| Death of a Fly by Russell Dobrzynski | Russel Dobrzynski |
| The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere | Nicholas Triolo |
| Grit to Grind: Shaping Montana Communities One Skatepark at a Time | Andy Kemmis and Chris Bacon |
| Beartooth | Callan Wink |
| The Boxcar Librarian | Brianna Labuskes |
| Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie | James Lee Burke |
| A Mountain’s Idea of Time | Charles Finn |
| Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana | Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling and John B Wright |
| Harlo | Brian Petersen |
| Your Mother’s Bear Gun | Corrie Williamson |
| A Time of Legends: The Story of Two Fearless Wolves – and One Rebel (Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves #2) | Rick McIntyre and David A. Poulsen |
| Pastoral, 1994 | Joe Wilkins |
| Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress | Lorissa Rinehart |
| The Bunch Quitter | Philip J. Burgess |
| Into This Radiance: Kayaking Flathead Lake | Gary W. Hawk |
