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  • Make 2024 Your Best Reading Year Yet!

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  • Get Lit January Book Club: Michael Cunningham with Alison Stewart

    Wed, Jan 31 | 6 PM

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) & Online

    Alison Stewart and Michael Cunningham

  • Christian McBride with Nelson George: The Movement Revisited

    Mon, Feb 26 | 7 PM

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

    2 side-by-side headshots: Nelson George, Christian McBride

  • Ruha Benjamin: Imagination

    Mon, Mar 4 | 7 PM

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

    2 side-by-side images: Ruha Benjamin headshot; book cover of Imagination: A Manifesto.

  • Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires

    Tues, Feb 6 | 7 PM

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

    2 side-by-side images: a black-and-white headshot of Álvaro Enrigue sitting on a couch, his arms are crossed; book cover of "You Dreamed of Empires"

  • Get Lit January Book Club: Michael Cunningham with Alison Stewart

    Wed, Jan 31 | 6 PM

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) & Online

    Alison Stewart and Michael Cunningham

  • Christian McBride with Nelson George: The Movement Revisited

    Mon, Feb 26 | 7 PM

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

    2 side-by-side headshots: Nelson George, Christian McBride

  • Ruha Benjamin: Imagination

    Mon, Mar 4 | 7 PM

    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online

    2 side-by-side images: Ruha Benjamin headshot; book cover of Imagination: A Manifesto.
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In the Collection

  • The Collectors: Stories

    edited by A.S. King

    Young AdultFiction
    The Collectors: Stories

  • MexiKid: A Graphic Memoir

    Pedro Martín

    KidsGraphic Novel
    Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

  • Nigeria Jones

    Ibi Zoboi

    Young AdultFiction
    Nigeria Jones

  • Whalefall

    Daniel Kraus

    AdultScience Fiction
    Whalefall

  • Henry, Like Always

    Jenn Bailey

    KidsEarly Reader
    Henry Like Always

  • The Ascent

    Adam Plantinga

    AdultFiction
    The Ascent: a novel by Adam Plantinga

  • The Amish Wife

    Gregg Olsen

    AdultNonfiction
    The Amish Wife: unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free by Gregg Olsen

  • The Bullet Swallower

    Elizabeth Gonzalez James

    AdultFiction
    The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • The Algorithm

    Hilke Schellmann

    AdultNonfiction
    The Algorithm: how AI decides who gets hired, monitored, promoted, & fired & why we need to fight back now by Hilke Schellmann

  • The Waters

    Bonnie Jo Campbell

    AdultFiction
    The Waters: a novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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  • 2024 Winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, King, Belpre & More Awards from the American Library Association

    Top honors went to Dave Eggers's middle grade adventure book The Eyes and the Impossible and Vashti Harrison's picture book Big.
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  • Reading the Oscars 2024 Nominations

    Five of the 10 Best Picture nominees were based on books—explore these and more!
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