Loveland Loves to Read
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.
Loveland Loves to Read 2023
Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures was published in the spring of 2022. This luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance over 30 years ago has already garnered a lot of attention.
Charming, compulsively readable, and full of wit, Shelby Van Pelt’s novel is a beautiful exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope – a reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
Loveland Loves to Read Books and Authors
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
