🎉 Happy book birthday to Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social from @groveatlantic.bsky.social! Eshani Surya's debut highlights the dark side of the beauty industry and how far will we go in exchange for beauty, love, and acceptance.

📖 On Tuesday, November 18th at 6:00pm, join @spotlightpa.org for an online Q&A with author Lorene Cary! The event is part of Spotlight PA’s new book club, Booklight PA, which selected Cary's novel If Sons, Then Heirs for their November read. For more information:

📖 We recently hosted graphic novelist Beth Hetland, the 2025 Lynd Ward Prize winner, for an author talk at Penn State! Her visit also included presenting at the Delta High School in State College and a first-year graphic design seminar at Penn State. Thank you to Beth for such a wonderful visit!

📚 Our Outreach and Social Media Coordinator, Casey Sennett, attended the Pennsylvania Library Association's Annual Conference last week in Erie! She presented a poster about the PA Center for the Book and our various initiatives. She also got a library card at the Erie County Public Library!

🎉 Happy book birthday to Black-Owned by Char Adams! Black-Owned celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. It documents Black political movements through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have served as centers for organizing since abolition.

🕯We are celebrating Día de Muertos with Ramón and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson! Ramón Montez and Julieta Campos meet on Día de Muertos, but lose each other until Ramón acquires Julieta's closing taqueria. Forced to work together, can they overcome their differences and divided families?

👻 Happy Halloween! The Center's friendly ghost is celebrating with our 2025 Lynd Ward Prize winner, Tender by Beth Hetland! This body horror graphic novel follows a woman who is obsessed with curating a picture-perfect life. What are you reading for Halloween?

📚 Celebrate #TeenTober with one of these young adult novels from a Pennsylvania author: 📖 It's A Love/Skate Relationship by @icarli.bsky.social 📖 Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomas 📖 They Bloom at Night by @nvtran.bsky.social 📖 The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum

📣 New from Pennsylvania author Alison Green Myers! 📖This Way to Happy After the death of Reilly's grandfather, the joy of operating her family's amusement park disappears. As the family struggles to keep the park open, Reilly discovers that even in the most challenging times, happiness is not far.

👻 Celebrate spooky season with one of these creepy books for young readers from Pennsylvania authors: 📙 Peril at Price Manor by @lauraparnum.bsky.social 📙 It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell 📙 Girl on the Run by @abigailjohnsonya.bsky.social 📙 She is a Haunting by @nvtran.bsky.social

🎧 💳 📚 This is your sign to #CheckOutYourLibrary, where we share stories, not subscriptions. #Bookish #Booksky #LibraryLove #LibraryJoy #LibbyApp

📣 This Saturday is the YOung People’s Book Festival of Greater Philadelphia in Villanova! The YO! Book Fest features writing and drawing workshops, signings with more than fifty children’s, middle grade, and young adult authors, and so much more! For more information:

📖 On Thursday at 6:00pm, join Spotlight PA for an online Q&A with Philly-based author Stephanie Feldman! The event is part of Booklight PA, a new book club, which selected Feldman's science fiction novel Saturnalia for their October read. For more information:

✨ Light up your Diwali with the magic of reading! We are celebrating the Festival of Lights with Sleepless in Dubai by @sajnipatelbooks.bsky.social! Happy Diwali!

📚 This Friday at 4:00pm, we are hosting author Beth Hetland, winner of the 2025 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, for a presentation and signing in Foster Auditorium at the Penn State University Libraries at University Park! The event is free and open to the public!

📚 For National Bullying Prevention Month, we are reading Weirdo by Tony Weaver, Jr. and illustrated by Jes & Cin Wibowo! Tony Weaver, Jr. loves comic books and anime, but his classmates think that makes him a weirdo. After a traumatic event, he begins a journey to become the hero of his own story.

📚 Next week, we are traveling to Erie for the Pennsylvania Library Association's Annual Conference! Join our poster session on Monday to learn more about the PA Center for the Book and to pick up some fun swag! Will we see you in Erie? #BookSky #PaLA2025 #Pennsylvania

🎉 Happy book birthday to Together We Are Sunshine by @authorjamilah.bsky.social and illustrated by Raissa Figueroa from @randomhousekids.bsky.social ! This heartwarming picture book celebrates sisterhood and the harmony between sisters of all ages.

📚 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day with a book by an indigenous or First Nations author: 📖 Find Her by Ginger Reno 📖 Legendary Frybread Drive-In edited by @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social 📖 A Body More Tolerable by @jayesimpson.bsky.social 📖 Old School Indian by @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social

Celebrate Indigenous storytelling this #IndigenousPeoplesDay — and every day! — with these new and upcoming releases from Heartdrum! Here’s every Heartdrum title that’s been published in 2025 — as well as a look ahead at forthcoming 2026 Heartdrum titles that you can pre-order today!

📚 The Harrisburg Book Festival is happening this Wednesday through Sunday! Attendees can meet authors, shop Midtown Scholar Bookstore's outdoor tent sale, attend Live Jazz Night, and so much more! For more information and to view the full schedule of events: www.hbgbookfest.com

📖 For World Mental Health Day, we are reading The Flip Side by Jason Walz! In this young adult graphic novel, Theo's world is literally turned upside down after the death of his best friend. Stuck in an alternate reality fueled by his depression, Theo must overcome his grief to escape.

📚 For #BannedBooksWeek, we are highlighting a few Pennsylvania authors with at least one book challenged or banned in the state: 📖 Susan Kuklin, author of Beyond Magenta 📖 Patricia McCormick, author of Sold 📖 Jesse Andrews, author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

🎉 Happy book birthday to Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma! First love. First kill. Just another day ending in y when you’re a monster-slayer trained by Hindu demons. This young adult romantasy is based on South Asian mythology and perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

📚 This weekend, the Banned Wagon is coming to Philadelphia! Penguin Random House's Banned Wagon will visit two branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia to showcase and distribute books currently being banned and challenged across the U.S. For more information:

Did you know that you can stream Taylor Swift's aptly named Life of a Showgirl on @hoopladigital.bsky.social for free with your library card? Swifties, Check out all the TayTay albums on Hoopla! And I mean allllllll of them. afiak. #TaylorSwift

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

✨ To celebrate the release of The Life of a Showgirl, we are matching the themes of Taylor Swift albums to books from Pennsylvania authors! #BookSky #TaylorSwift #Pennsylvania

📖 The Penn State University Libraries are hosting a read-in on Tuesday for #BannedBooksWeek! Bring your current read to the Pattee Library at University Park anytime from 12:00-4:00pm to protest against book bans! Attendees will also receive a free audiobook while supplies last!

📚 Last month, we celebrated the release of Keystone Poetry with a workshop and reading with the Penn State University Press ( @psupress.bsky.social ) and Penn State's Department of English! Thank you to all our partners and the poets for making this event possible!

This year, Banned Book Week is October 5-11. Celebrate the freedom to read all month long with us! 📚 Click here for more information and resources: bannedbooksweek.org #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social

🎉 Happy book birthday to Joy to the Girls by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick! ❄ This novella companion to She Gets the Girl follows Alex and Molly as they celebrate their final college winter break with a romantic getaway.

📚 This Saturday, the 7th Latin American Book Fair will be held from 11:00am-4:00pm at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia! The free event will include author showcases, performances, live music, and food! For more information: www.latinbookfair.com

Remember your first library card? That moment of discovery and independence? ✨ Let’s bring that magic to students—show them the possibilities a card unlocks! https://bit.ly/3BcM6px

📚 Earlier this month, we represented Pennsylvania in the Roadmap to Reading at the Library of Congress’ 25th National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.! Thank you to all the volunteers and staff who made the event possible as well as everyone who visited our booth!

💥 To celebrate National Comic Book Day, we are highlighting a few comic book artists from Pennsylvania: 📖 Oliver Bly, creator of The Mushroom Knight Vol. 1 & 2 📖 Jayla Patton, creator of Science Woman, Sick, and Flight 📖 Ellen Forney, creator of Rock Steady and and Marbles

📖 Join Spotlight PA ( @spotlightpa.org ) tomorrow at 6:00pm on Zoom for their first Booklight PA event, a discussion and Q&A with author Jessamine Chan! Register here:

Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.

🎉 Happy book birthday to It's Me They Follow by Jeannine A. Cook! The Shopkeeper is a bookseller and reluctant matchmaker. She helps others find love through books, but now it is finally time for her to find love!

✨ To celebrate Rosh Hashanah, we are reading Measuring a Year by Linda Elovitz Marshall and illustrated by Zara Gon­zá­lez Hoang ( @zarprey.bsky.social )! 🍎🍯 Happy New Year! Shanah Tovah!

📚 Next Saturday, September 27th, is the 4th annual Books Books Books Event at the Wyndham Resort in Lancaster! Join the more than 130 authors in attendance for book signings and bookish fun! For more information:

✨ To celebrate #LatineHeritageMonth, we are highlighting a few Latine authors from #Pennsylvania: 📚 Quiara Alegría Hudes (Philadelphia), author of My Broken Language 📚 Maurice Kilwein Guevara (Pittsburgh), author of POEMA 📚 Mônica Carnesi (Philadelphia), author of Little Lost Dog

The only notification I need this morning is "Your library hold is ready" Everything else can wait.

🎉 Happy book birthday to Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell! Abandoned in a cemetery as a child and raised in a funeral home, Mystery can sense the supernatural. When an heirloom goes missing and her family’s funeral home is in danger of being shut down, she is determined to find it!

Today marks the first day of #LatineHeritageMonth! We’ve put together a (non-comprehensive) reading guide to help grow your TBR this Latine Heritage Month – and beyond!

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Happy Latine Heritage Month 2025! Happy Latine Heritage Month! We're celebrating as we do with books by Latine authors, mostly starring Latine main characters, and if you want even more recs, check out past years' posts! Middle Grade It’s All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango All these…

✨ We are featured in the September edition of the Town & Gown Magazine! Thank you to the Town & Gown for such a lovely write-up and for highlighting our 2025 award selections! Read the full article here:

⭐ We are celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Baker’s Dozen booklist with some of the jury's favorite Baker's Dozen books: 📘 I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry 📘 Little Lost Dog by Mônica Carnesi 📘 Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour & illustrated by Daniel Egnéus #KidLit