Open Books Challenge 2026: Set in America Between 1600-1800

The Open Books Reading Challenge is a year-long reading challenge for people interested in pushing the boundaries of their reading. For full details of the program, please check-out our page at: https://www.rplmn.org/books-more/discover-more/open-books-reading-challenge

These are some ideas that fit the 2026 category "Set in America between 1600-1800, to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence."

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Updated December 31, 2025
RPL Staff
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The scarlet letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece: A searing portrait of sin and redemption in Puritan New England When Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman in seventeenth-century Boston, becomes pregnant out of wedlock, the unforgiving society in which she lives judges her harshly. Sentenced to...
The age of Phillis
Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
Ebook
Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Poetry 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, Longlist 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, Finalist

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