Big Read
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What We're Reading
The Big Read encourages all citizens of Charlottesville to read and talk a thought-provoking book each year to foster community and civic awareness. J-MRL is proud to cooperate with the Virginia Foundation's Center for the Book, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Arts Midwest. Past titles were:
2011 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
2010 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
2009 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2008 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2007 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What America Is Reading
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Sun, Stone, and Shadows edited by Jorge F. Hernandez
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Washington Square by Henry James
- The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
- The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Old School by Tobias Wolff
