300 W. Merrill St. Birmingham, MI 48009 | (248) 647-1700

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Books on Foot

This year-round reading challenge is designed to encourage you to enjoy a local pathway or trail while listening to an audiobook. Every month there will be a theme and a suggested route. A recommended list of audiobooks, including the digital service in which you can access them, wil be provided. You are not obligated to follow the suggestions!

Below are previews of monthly themes and suggested titles and walking routes.  Register for the challenge and log your titles via Beanstack.

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300 W. Merrill St.
Birmingham, MI 48009

Library Hours

Monday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Upcoming Closures

June 19: Closed

 

July 4: Closed

 

AUGUST – SHORT STORIES

books on foot August Short Stories

Suggested Titles

The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Tenth of December by George Sanders

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

How Long til Black Futures Month? by N.K. Jemisin

Florida by Lauren Groff

 

Suggested Walk

 Walk Douglas Evans Nature Preserve on Evergreen Road north of 13 Mile

SEPTEMBER – BANNED BOOKS

books on foot September Banned Books

Suggested Titles

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
(also on hoopla)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
(also on hoopla)

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

 

Suggested Walk

Walk Greenwood Cemetery on Oak Street, west of Old Woodward

 

Parking

Free Two-Hour Parking in Chester Street Deck

Metered street parking around Library

Free Parking on Sundays

248-647-1700

300 W. Merrill St.
Birmingham, MI 48009

Library Hours:

Monday – Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Friday & Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Upcoming Closures:

August 31-September 2: Closed

September 20: Closed

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