On Tuesday, October 31, 2006, the NEA announced that the following communities were selected to receive a grant to participate in The Big Read.
This list is ordered alphabetically by state, and each community's selected novel is in italics.
Anchorage Municipal Libraries Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Fayetteville Public Library Ozarka College Santa Clarita Libraries - County of Los Angeles Public Library Fresno County Library Montalvo Arts Center National Steinbeck Center Peninsula Library System City of Bridgeport Hartford Public Library Mattatuck Historical Society New Haven International Festival of Humanities Council of Washington, DC Brevard County Libraries Communities In Schools of Putnam Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Orange County Library System Armstrong Atlantic State University Ames Public Library Sioux City Public Library The Cabin Cook Memorial Public Library District Peoria Public Library Sandburg Days Festival Sterling Public Library Bloomington Area Arts Council Kosciusko Literacy Services, Inc. Muncie Public Library Vigo County Public Library Johnson County Library Kansas City Kansas Public Library Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Louisville Free Public Library Foundation East Baton Rouge Parish Library |
Maryland Public Television Patten Free Library Jackson Community College Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Monroe County Community College Fergus Falls, A Center for the Arts Grand Rapids Area Library Washington University in St. Louis Friends of Starkville Library: Starkville Reads Havre-Hill County Library Foundation A-B Tech Community College Foundation Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Library Cumberland County Public Library Lenoir Community College Rowan Public Library Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. Upper Hudson Library System Cuyahoga County Public Library Newark Public Library Pioneer Library System Stillwater Public Library Fishtrap, Inc. Lycoming County Library System Sumter County Library South Dakota Center for the Book South Central Tennessee Workforce El Paso Public Library Harris County Public Library Cedar City Public Library Friends of Salt Lake City Public Library Newport News Public Library System Pamunkey Regional Library Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Timberland Regional Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Center |
