Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library

On July 13, the Ohioana Library and the State Library of Ohio, in collaboration with the Ohio Center for the Book and Choose to Read Ohio advisory council members, hosted a reception of recent Floyd’s Pick Book Award winners and honorees at the State Library of Ohio in Columbus. Ohio Center for the Book Coordinator …

A selection of novelists, poets, and essayists to explore as we commemorate Juneteenth… Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the one of the first Black women to be published in the United States with her Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, published in 1854. See a selection of her poems at The Poetry Foundation. Langston Hughes (1901-1967), …

Every year since 2002, the Ohio Center for the Book has the honor of selecting a book to represent our state in the national Great Reads from Great Places initiative. Those titles are highlighted at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, every year, as well as being placed on the permanent list of honoree …

Pride Month provides Ohioans with a chance to either revisit or to learn about all the LGBTQ+ literary figures who were born in Ohio or have called the Buckeye State home. And before you say “What about….?!”, we acknowledge this is ONLY a very small selection! Consider this an enticement for you to explore well …

The Ohio Center for the Book is hosting a number of book discussions and events in northeast Ohio over the summer. Mark your calendars, and we hope to see you there! For full details, see below or contact us at ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org or call 216-623-2881. Saturday, July 30 – 10:30 am – Severance by Ling Ma …

Download the new Choose to Read Ohio Booklist The State Library of Ohio, the Ohioana Library Association, and the Ohio Center for the Book along with the Choose to Read Ohio Advisory Council has announced the 2023 & 2024 Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO) booklist. The CTRO 2023 & 2024 booklist was developed by an …

NOTE: Be sure to add your name to the Participants List on Wikipedia! You can also ask questions at the Project’s Meet-up’s Talk Page! For better or worse, Wikipedia has become the first stop for information for many people. With that in mind, the Ohio Center for the Book, in collaboration with the State Library …

In December 2020, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 325 which officially designated February 18th, the birthday of the Nobel-Prizewinning author, as Toni Morrison Day. When President Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to Toni Morrison in 2012, he described Toni Morrison as follows: Toni Morrison. The first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison …