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.
For updates about Loveland Loves to Read, follow them on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/LL2Read
https://www.instagram.com/lovelandlovestoread
Loveland Loves to Read 2025
Loveland Loves to Read welcomed Shelley Read, author of Go as a River, to Loveland for our 2025 Author Talk and Book Signing.
Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival - and hope.
* 2023 Reading the West Book Award
* Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award
* Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love
Loveland Loves to Read Books and Authors
2025
Go As a River, by Shelley Read
2024
Good Night, Irene, by Luis Alberto Urrea
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
