The Great American Read--The Book of Books

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by PBS

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  Texas Book Festival: texasbookfestival.org

  Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago: printersrowlitfest.org

  EVERYDAY LITERATURE

  Little Free Libraries: littlefreelibrary.org

  Poetry in Motion: web.mta.info/mta/aft/poetry/

  LITERARY TOURISM

  #LiteraryTourism archives on Book Riot: bookriot.com/category/literary-tourism/

  Scan through pages of articles for literary tourism inspiration.

  Poets & Writers Literary Places: pw.org/literary_places

  Browse a map of writing- and writer-related sites countrywide, or plug in your area to search what’s nearby. You can create your own map of everything from historical sites to literary archives to writing spaces.

  PUBLIC LIBRARIES WORTH A VISIT

  Boston Public Library, Boston, MA: The second-largest library in the US was also the first to create a children’s section, which opened in 1895 and contained over 3,000 books.

  Central Library, Los Angeles, CA:

  Celebrated for its architecture and its size, this is the third largest central library in the US.

  The Floating Library, Minnesota:

  It’s a library on a boat!

  Homer Public Library, Homer, Alaska:

  Sustainable by design, this library is made of recycled local material.

  Library of Congress, Washington, DC:

  The largest library in the world is none other than the LOC; it has millions of books and reference materials in its collection.

  McAllen Public Library, McAllen, Texas:

  Once a WalMart, this former-big-box retail space is now home to two football fields’ worth of books.

  New York Public Library, New York, NY:

  The Big Apple boasts the largest public library system in the country, with 92 locations helping 17 million people each year.

  Peterborough Public Library, Peterborough, NH:

  This public library is the oldest in the world! It was founded in 1833, when a local reverend used public funds to create a place where anyone could borrow a book for free.

  Provincetown Public Library, Provincetown, MA:

  The building began as a Methodist church built in 1860, and now it’s the town library and on the National Register of Historic Places; it also houses a model of a schooner, the Rose Dorothea, inside.

  Seattle Public Library, Seattle WA:

  This modern-looking building opened in 2004 and offers patrons an amazing skylight and a four-level book spiral, in addition to its collection.

  WRITERS’ HOUSES AND MUSEUMS

  Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace and Museum, Oak Park, IL

  The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA

  F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery, Alabama

  H.P. Lovecraft’s Providence, Rhode Island

  Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Indianapolis, Indiana

  Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, Atlanta, GA

  Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, CT

  The Mount (Edith Wharton’s home), Lenox, MA

  National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, California

  O. Henry House and Museum, Austin, TX

  Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia

  Willa Cather’s childhood home, Red Cloud, Nebraska

  William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, Oxford, MS

  IMAGE CREDITS

  here Pride and Prejudice, first page of first edition. Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland.

  here The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, cover, first edition, second printing, The American Publishing Company, 1876. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Portrait of Mark Twain. Courtesy Library of Congress.

  here One of Mark Twain’s later Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer manuscripts entitled “Tom Sawyer, Detective.” Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

  here The Alchemist, cover, first English edition, HarperSanfrancisco, 1993. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com, © HarperCollins.

  here Author Paulo Coelho. © Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Page from the original manuscript for The Alchemist. Courtesy of Paulo Coelho & Christina Oticicia Foundation.

  here Covers of Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, and Pop Goes the Weasel. Courtesy Hachette Books.

  here Four Blind Mice, cover. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com, © Hachette Books.

  here Author James Patterson at his home office. © AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee.

  here Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, cover, first edition, Macmillan, 1865. © Christies Auctions/Bridegman Art Library.

  here Portrait, Lewis Carroll. Courtesy Library of Congress.

  here Dedication, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” original manuscript for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. © British Library/Granger Images.

  here Americanah, 2013 hardcover edition. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo by Monica Schipper/WireImage.

  here University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Courtesy Mobolaji Sokunbi & Akin Akinboro / The 234 Project (www.the234project.com).

  here And Then There Were None, first edition, 1939. Courtesy Harper Collins.

  here Agatha Christie in 1926. © Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Cover of the Daily Sketch. Photo by Hulton Archives/Getty.

  here Anne of Green Gables, first edition cover. Courtesy Bonhams Auctions.

  here Portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1908. L. M. Montgomery Collection, Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library.

  here The birthplace of L. M. Montgomery. Photo by Dave G. Houser.

  here Another Country, cover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Portrait of James Baldwin. © Van Vechten Trust, via the Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  here Plaque in front of James Baldwin’s Horatio St. home in New York City. simon leigh / Alamy Stock photo.

  here Atlas Shrugged, cover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Portrait of Ayn Rand. Photo by Oscar White/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images.

  here Handwritten notes by Ayn Rand for Atlas Shrugged. © ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Beloved, first edition, 1987. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Penguin Random House.

  here Toni Morrison, 2009. Photo by Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images.

  here Handwritten draft of Beloved. Copyright Toni Morrison Papers (C1491); Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

  here Bless Me, Ultima, classic cover. Courtesy Hachette Books.

  here Author Rudolfo Anaya in 2005. Photo by Steve Snowden/Getty Images.

  here Bless Me, Ultima, movie tie-in cover. Courtesy Hachette Books.

  here The Book Thief, anniversary edition cover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Markus Zusak, 2009. Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images.

  here Still from The Book Thief film. © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved./courtesy Everett Collection.

  here “The Shower of Cards,” illustration. © The Shower of Cards, illustration from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll (1832-98) (colour litho), Tenniel, John (1820-1914) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images.

  here The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, title page illustration. Courtesy Heritage Auctions.

  here Illustration for 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice. Photo by, Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images.

  here Engraving of Don Quixote. Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

  here The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, hardcover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Junot Díaz, 2008.
Photo by Matt Carr/Contour by Getty Images.

  here Junot Díaz’s notebook for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Photo by Jens Mortensen.

  here The Call of the Wild, first edition. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Portrait of Jack London, 1896. JLP 588, The Jack London Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

  here “Buck” of The Call of the Wild. JLP 13, The Jack London Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

  here Catch-22, first edition cover. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Simon & Schuster.

  here Joseph Heller, 1965. © Inge Morath © The Inge Morath Foundation/Magnum Photos.

  here Joseph Heller with his crew in the 488th Bomb Squadron. Courtesy 57th Bomb Wing Association.

  here Catcher in the Rye, first edition cover. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Hachette Books.

  here Author J. D. Salinger, 1952, Brooklyn. Photo by Antony Di Gesu/San Diego Historical Society/Hulton Archive Collection/Getty Images.

  here Ice skaters, Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York, 1951. Bettmann/Getty Images.

  here Charlotte’s Web, first edition cover, 1952. Courtesy Harper Collins.

  here Author E. B. White with dog, 1952. Courtesy of White Literary LLC.

  here Charlotte’s Web, original illustration, 1952. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Harper Collins.

  here The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, first edition cover, 1950. Illustration by Pauline Baynes. © CS Lewis Pte Ltd 1950. Courtesy HarperCollins.

  here Author C. S. Lewis, 1958. Wolf Suschitzky/Pix Inc./The LIFE Images Collection/ Getty Images.

  here Aslan from the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Harper Lee, 1960. Photograph by Michael Brown ©.

  here Kurt Vonnegut, 1990. Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

  here The Clan of the Cave Bear, first edition cover, 1980. Courtesy Heritage Auctions, HA.com © Penguin Random House.

  here Author Jean M. Auel, 2011. Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images.

  here The Coldest Winter Ever cover, 1999. Courtesy Simon & Schuster.

  here Author Sister Souljah. Photo © Brian Velenchenko, Courtesy Simon & Schuster.

  here Sister Souljah speaking to the media, 1992. Photo by Kimberly Butler/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images.

  here The Color Purple, first edition cover, 1982. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

  here Author Alice Walker in Seattle, 2013. Dana Nalbandian/WireImage.

  here Theater marquee, Broadway, 2016. Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images.

  here A Confederacy of Dunces, first edition cover, 1980. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Author John Kennedy Toole. Courtesy Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.

  here Letter from Toole to Simon & Schuster. Courtesy John Kennedy Toole Papers, Tulane University.

  here The Count of Monte Cristo, first edition cover, 1846. Photo by Kelly Welch, Courtesy Quill & Brush Booksellers.

  here Author Alexandre Dumas, 1846. Photo by Apic/Getty Images.

  here Illustration from The Count of Monte Cristo, “My name is Edmond Dantès.” Project Gutenberg.

  here Chateau d’If fortress prison. © David Crossland / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Cover of Crime and Punishment. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, 1865. Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images.

  here Illustration for Crime and Punishment by Mikhail Petrovich (Baron) Klodt, Russian State Library. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.

  here Cover, Bless Me, Ultima. Courtesy Hachette Books.

  here The Call of the Wild, first edition. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, first edition cover, 2003. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Mark Haddon, 2016. Photo by Awakening Getty Images.

  here Actor Graham Butler as Christopher Boone, London National Theatre, 2017. Photo Geraint Lewis / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here The Da Vinci Code, first edition cover, 2003. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Dan Brown, 2016. Photo by Patrick Fouque/Paris Match/Contour by Getty Images.

  here Photo of “cryptex” made for the film The Da Vinci Code. Ray Tang/REX/Shutterstock.

  here Opening pages of first English translation of Don Quixote, 1620. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Author Miguel de Cervantes. Courtesy Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Illustration of Chapter 1 of Don Quixote. Courtesy Heritage auctions/HA.com.

  here Doña Bárbara, first edition cover. Courtesy University of Chicago Press.

  here Author Romulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela, 1947. Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images.

  here President Gallegos with Harry S. Truman. Courtesy nsf / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Cover, Dune. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Frank Herbert, 1978. Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images.

  here Original art for the David Lynch film version of Dune, 1984. © Dune / Photo © Collection CSFF / Bridgeman Images.

  here Cover, Fifty Shades of Grey. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author E. L. James, 2015. Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images.

  here Poster for film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Gray. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Focus Features.

  here Jack London, 1905. Photo Bettmann/Getty Images.

  here Flowers in the Attic, first edition cover, 1979. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com and the Andrews Family.

  here Author V. C. Andrews. Courtesy of the Andrews Family.

  here Flowers in the Attic, 2014 edition cover. Courtesy Simon and Schuster.

  here Cover, Foundation. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Isaac Asimov. © Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Astounding magazine. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Frankenstein, 1831 edition. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Title page from Frankenstein, 1831 edition. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Author Mary Shelley. © GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Villa Diodati, Switzerland. Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images.

  here Ghost, hardcover. Courtesy Simon & Schuster.

  here Author Jason Reynolds. Photo © Ben Fractenberg; courtesy Simon & Schuster.

  here Jason Reynolds talking with Daniel José Older, 2016. Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

  here Gilead, first edition cover, 2004. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com; © Macmillan.

  here Author Marilynne Robinson. Photo by Ulf Anderson/Getty Images.

  here The Giver, cover. Courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

  here Author Lois Lowry, 2014. Photo by Logan Werlinger/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images.

  here Poster for the movie, The Giver. © Weinstein Company/Courtesy Everett Collection.

  here The Godfather, classic cover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Mario Puzo, 1979. Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage.

  here Letter from Puzo to Marlon Brando, 1970. © Autograph letter to Marlon Brando, Private Collection / Photo © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images.

  here Gone Girl, hardcover edition, 2012. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author Gillian Flynn. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Movie tie-in cover for Gone Girl. © Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Gone With the Wind, first edition cover. Courtesy Peter Harrington Books by permission of GWTW Partners, LLC.

  here Author Margaret Mitchell, 1941. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

  here Poster from the movie, Gone With the Wind. Pictorial P
ress Ltd / Alamy Stock Photos.

  here The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin Classics cover. Courtesy Penguin Random House.

  here Author John Steinbeck, 1930. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

  here Migrant Mother. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/ OWI Collection.

  here Great Expectations, first edition cover, 1891. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Author Charles Dickens, 1867. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

  here Harper’s Periodicals. Public domain.

  here The Great Gatsby, first edition cover. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. Image by permission of the Trustees of the Fitzgerald Estate Under Agreement Dated July 3, 1975, Created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.

  here Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1928. © Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo.

  here Pages from original manuscript of The Great Gatsby. Courtesy F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187); Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. By permission of the Trustees of the Fitzgerald Estate Under Agreement Dated July 3, 1975. Created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.

  here A page from the Codex of Leicester. Photo © Boltin Picture Library / Bridgeman Images.

  here Charles Dickens’ letter opener, made from a cat’s paw, c. 1866. Copyright New York Public Library.

  here Gulliver’s Travels, first printing, 1726. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com.

  here Author Jonathan Swift. © Jonathan Swift, 1875 (mezzotint), Rajon, Paul Adolphe (1843-1888) / Photo © Historic Royal Palaces/Claire Collins / Bridgeman Images.

  here Engraving from Gulliver’s Travels, 1795. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

  here The Handmaid’s Tale, first US edition. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com © Houghton Miffin Harcourt.

  here Author Margaret Atwood, 1981. Photo by Dale Brazao/Toronto Star via Getty Images.

  here Handwritten pages from the original manuscript of The Handmaid’s Tale. Courtesy Fisher Library, University of Toronto.

  here Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, cover. Courtesy Heritage Auctions/HA.com. © Scholastic Corporation.

  here Author J. K. Rowling, 2016. Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

 

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