The Mercantile Library

Read with us this summer ❤️‍🔥📚

Summer Reading Challenge with The Mercantile Library
Read books, make friends, earn prizes!

Our Summer Reading Challenge is an opportunity to meet your fellow Mercantile members, and have some literary adventures along the way. We’ll be raffling off tickets to one of our always sold-out Signature Series lectures. You can get some personalized recommendations to load up your TBR. And there’ll be free T-shirts & tote bags. What could be better?

WHEN

June 1 through August 1

Join us at 6 p.m. June 8 for a Kick-off Party where you can meet other readers, get your book tracker, and ask our librarians for personalized recommendations
We’ll celebrate our summer of reading with a Wrap-up Party, 6 p.m. August 3!

HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS

Keep track of every book you read June 1 through August 1

One book = one raffle ticket in our grand prize drawing
Select books, including Make Believe by Mac Barnett, our 2026 Innovation speaker, count for two raffle tickets

Grand prize is two tickets to the 2026 Memoir Lecture with Roxane Gay!

Questions? Email [email protected]

Ready to read with us? Sign up today link in bio!

Falcons can’t read, but they are the fastest animal on earth. And there is a pair that have nested on the 11th Story ledge of the Mercantile Library. Join us for a conversation with raptor experts and enthusiasts, all while viewing the Library’s resident peregrine falcon family.

Free & open to the public. Reservations requested https://www.mercantilelibrary.com/events/calendar/2026/06/04/library-falcons

Panelists:
Jeff Hays, Biologist, Raptor, Inc
David Orban, VP Animal Programs, Cincinnati Zoo
Cedric Rose, Collector, The Mercantile Library
Moderator: John Faherty, Warner Huguenin Executive Director, The Mercantile Library