Loveland Loves to Read is an annual One Book, One Community program.
Each year, community members come together through the reading and discussion of a common book. In addition to book discussions, a variety of related events are scheduled.
The Friends provide various services and support to the independent Loveland Loves to Read committee as part of our interest in promoting literacy in our community.
For updates about Loveland Loves to Read, follow them on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/LL2Read
https://www.instagram.com/lovelandlovestoread
The Loveland Loves to Read book for 2024 is Good Night, Irene, by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his life experiences to explore themes of love, loss, and triumph.
A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and a Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of 19 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction, and essays.
Urrea's newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother's own Red Cross Club Mobile service during World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, the novel powerfully demonstrates Urrea's gifts as a storyteller.
Luis Alberto Urrea will speak at Thompson Valley High School on Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available at Colorado Box Office.
General admission: $20
Priority seating: $30
2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
2022
This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger
2020, 2021
Program cancelled, due to COVID-19 restrictions
2019
The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi, and A Ditch in Time, by Patricia Limerick
2018
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
2017
Spider Woman's Daughter, by Anne Hillerman
2016
The Work of Wolves, by Kent Myers
2015
Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger
2014
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller
2013
Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin
2012
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
2011
Blue Heaven, by C.J. Box
2010
Murder at the Brown Palace, by Dick Kreck
2009
The Cold Dish, by Craig Johnson
2008
Bellwether, by Connie Willis
2007
The Whistling Season, by Ivan Doig
2006
The Meadow, by James Galvin
2005
The Eagle Catcher, by Margaret Coel
2004
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf