GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Library’s GR Reads – a summer reading program for adults – runs now through Aug. 31.
Participants can read any of the six selected books and participate in 19 free programs throughout the summer, according to a news release Tuesday.
Programs include both in-person and virtual events.
The six books, which include various genres of fiction and nonfiction, were selected to appeal to a wide range of reading tastes, library officials said.
The programs are both loosely and directly related to the books.
Participants can read as few or as many of the featured books as they want.
Titles in this year’s program are:
“Black Bottom Saints: a novel” by Alice Randall
“The House in the Cerulean Sea” by T.J. Klune
“The Library Book” by Susan Orlean
“A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” by Alicia Elliott
“The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton
“Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit In” by Phuc Tran
The program schedule is as follows:
June
June 17, 7:00 pm A Conversation with Two Eagles Marcus
June 19, 1:00 pm Comic Geek Out
June 21, 7:00 pm GR Crime Tour
June 24, 4:00 pm Curator Battle: GRPL v. GRPM
June 26, 2:00 pm African American Live Museum
June 29, 6:30 pm Private Love, Public School
July
July 14, 7:00 pm GR Crime Tour
July 22, 7:00 pm A Conversation with Two Eagles Marcus
July 28, 7:00 pm GR Reads: The Movies - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
August
August 3, 7:00 pm The Good Life is Our Birthright
August 4, 7:00 pm Panel on Modern Families
August 11, 7:00 pm GR Reads: The Movies - Minari
August 12, 6:00 pm Mastering the Art of Pho
August 19, 7:00 pm GR Crime Tour
August 21, 10:00 am Cerulean Sea Family Celebration
August 25, 7:00 pm GR Reads: The Movies - Clue
August 26, 7:00 pm A Conversation with Two Eagles Marcus
Available Anytime
Black History Tour of Downtown Grand Rapids
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