📖 The Pennsylvania Center for the Book: Celebrating all things literary in Pennsylvania since 2000!
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🎉 We are excited to announce the winner of the 2026 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize as The Weight by Melissa Mendes (@melissaannemendes ) from @drawnandquarterly !
The 2026 jury wrote that The Weight “...is an incredibly raw and powerful story... It has strong characters that feel real and true: It is a haunting story that is honestly told.”
Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi (@eaglevaliant ) from @drawnandquarterly and Endsickness by Sofia Alarcon (@sofi_see_sofi_drew ) from @conundrumpress were named 2026 Lynd Ward Prize honor books.
The Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize is presented annually to the best graphic novel published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident. It honors Ward’s influence in the development of the graphic novel and celebrates the gift of an extensive collection of Ward’s wood engravings, original book illustrations, and other graphic art donated to the Penn State University Libraries (@psulibs ) by his daughters Robin Ward Savage and the late Nanda Weedon Ward.
Visit the 🔗 in our bio to learn more about the 2026 Lynd Ward Prize awardees!
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📚 On Saturday, May 30th, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (@carnegielibrary ) is hosting Pgh Book Fest (@pghbookfest ) at their main campus in Oakland!
Pgh Book Fest is a free, citywide literary event featuring nationally acclaimed authors, indie booksellers, and community partners. The festival features panel discussions, poetry readings, family activities, and a bookish exhibitor space.
Join Yinzers and visiting readers for a day celebrating storytelling in all its forms!
Visit the 🔗 in our bio to learn more and explore the festival’s schedule!
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📖 On Thursday, May 28th at 6:00pm, Spotlight PA (@spotlightpennsylvania ) is hosting a virtual discussion with Philadelphia based author Tre Johnson (@tre_john_son ) about his essay collection Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy!
For writer and culture critic Tre Johnson, the brilliance of Black culture exists all around him: The 90’s-style air-brush tees, his auntie’s packed weekend trips, and sharp-tongued comedian Dick Gregory – are these not all examples of genius? In Black Genius, Johnson explores this question as he interweaves his own stories with pop culture and American history to make the case of what qualifies as genius.
Visit the 🔗 in our bio to register to attend the free event via Zoom. The event can also be watched on YouTube Live.
This event is part of Booklight PA, a book club pilot program created by Spotlight PA in partnership with A Novel Idea on Passyunk (@anovelideaphilly ).
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😮 It is Get Caught Reading Month, and you will NEVER guess what we were caught reading... Pennsylvania books!
It is like we are obsessed with Pennsylvania! 🤷♀️
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#Library #Librarians #Books #Read #Pennsylvania @pennstate@psulibs@pennstatealums
🌺 Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
To celebrate, we are highlighting a few Pennsylvania based books following Asian Americans:
Young Readers:
📖 The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy Wan-Long Shang (@wendyshangbooks ) from @scholastic
📖 Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (@randyribay ) from @kokilabooks
Adult:
📖 Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo from @catapult
📖 My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner (@emmastrenner ) from @pameladormanbooks
Nonfiction:
📖 Sign, Gone by Phuc Tran (@phucskywalker ) from @flatiron_books
📖 Blame This on the Boogie by Rina Ayuyang (rinayay.comics) from @drawnandquarterly
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📣 New release from Pennsylvania author Rhiannon Richardson (@rhiannon_writes )!
📖 Sweet Clarity from @simonteen
Clarity Jones has her first kiss while away at Christian summer camp. Realizing she’s gay slid a missing piece of her identity into place and was the most freeing experience of her life. Clarity’s self-discovery, however, soon turns into a disaster when she is found out.
Clarity vows to do whatever it takes to keep this secret from her Baptist parents, but her vow ultimately forces her choose between who she has been pretending to be and who she really is.
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#NewBook #YABooks #LGBTQBooks #BookRecommendations #Library
🏒 We are rooting for the Philadelphia Flyers (@philadelphiaflyers ) as they face the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the NHL playoffs!
Ignite the Orange with us by reading one of these orange books from a Pennsylvania author:
Young readers:
📙 Camp Murderface: Doom in the Deep by Josh Berk and Saundra Mitchell from @harperkids
📙 While We’re Young by K. L. Walther (@klwalther9 ) from @delacorteromance
Poetry:
📙 What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer (@katejbaer ) from @harpercollins
📙 I Was a Bell by M. Soledad Caballero (m.soledadcaballero) from @redhenpress
Adult:
📙 Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (@rosiedanan ) from @berkleyromance
📙 To Kill a Cook by W. M. Akers from @putnambooks
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📖 The 2026 One Book, One Philadelphia is Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing )!
The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation (@freelibraryfdn ) is hosting a series of free events, held virtually and in-person at branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia (@freelibrary ), through May 28th!
For more than 20 years, the One Book, One Philadelphia series has motivated tens of thousands of Philadelphians to read a featured selection and participate in programming across the city.
Visit the 🔗 in our bio to view the upcoming 2026 One Book, One Philadelphia events!
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📚 Happy Children’s Book Week! To celebrate, we are highlighting a few children’s book authors and illustrators either from or currently based in Pennsylvania:
📖 E.B. Lewis (Picture book illustrator of The Dream Builder’s Blueprint)
📖 Veronica Mang (@veronica_mang ) (Children’s book author and illustrator of Copland)
📖 Sharon G. Flake (@flakesharon ) (Middle grade and young adult author of Hattie Mae Begins Again)
📖 Alexandra Villasante (@magpiewrites ) (Young adult author of Fireblooms)
📖 Julia Drake (@julia.k.drake ) (Young adult author of Lovesick Falls)
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