The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and New York Magazine have announced the return of “One Book, One New York,” the exciting city-wide initiative that brings book-loving New Yorkers together to read the same book at the same time. Just like last year, they’re giving New Yorkers the choice to pick which book […]
The National Endowment for the Arts has just named Edwidge Danticat’s memoir, Brother, I’m Dying the first nonfiction book to join the Big Read library. The book tells the story of Danticat’s family, and their journey from Haiti to the United States. Danticat herself came to the U.S. at age 12, joining her parents after […]
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We are excited to share our new One Book, One Community Catalog, filled with a wide selection of books perfect for your library’s Community Reads programming. We’ve included suggestions that will appeal to both your adult and YA readers, your fiction and nonfiction lovers, and those interested in books with themes ranging from identity to […]
Exciting news today. Coming May 25, Goodreads.com will be unveiling a new project: The Goodreads Book Club, and will be encouraging their 5 million members to read [drumroll]… A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD! (If you are not already our friend on Goodreads, you can add us here.) Is this really it? One Book, One…World? […]
We have gotten a lot of emails throughout the last few weeks about some of the titles chosen for the One Book, One Community program from libraries all over the country- we are very excited about the titles chosen- some are our personal favorites- and other titles we know the community will be able to get […]
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By now you all are probably familiar with CommonReads, a blog dedicated to One Book, One Community and other common reading programs. If you haven’t already, please visit the CommonReads Facebook page and “like us”! Does your library or institution have a common read? Visit this page to learn more about linking up […]
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Boston! It’s about time you held a city-wide reading program. And we’re thrilled that, for their first-ever city-wide read, Beantown has selected DARK TIDE by Stephen Puleo. It’s a strange, strange story. In January 1919, a 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents in a […]
