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Vote Your Literary Conscience: Voting is open September 12 - October 23.

It’s election season - time to carefully consider the candidates, make an informed decision and cast your ballot… for the BIG READ!

Get out the vote and help choose the next BIG READ book! We’ve narrowed the choices to four finalists. Vote for the book you’d like your friends and neighbors to read and talk about during the Big Read community reading project in Spring, 2017.

Tell me about these books! Select the 2017 Big Read!

four2Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End

    by Atul Gawande


(Nonfiction) Gawande, a practicing surgeon, argues that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

two2Between the World
and Me

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates


(Memoir) In a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a series of essays to his adolescent son, exploring both personal and historical events. From his analysis of the concept of race, to the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, Coates sums up the history of black people in the United States.

three2Lock In

    by John Scalzi


(Science Fiction) Written by a Hugo Award-winning local author from Bradford and set in the not too distant future, a virus has swept the globe causing 1% of the world’s population to become "locked in" – fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. This is the background for a murder investigation that becomes something much more.

one2The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough


(Biography) Drawing on nearly 1,000 letters of family correspondence plus diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks in the Library of Congress, McCullough tells the extraordinary American story of the two Dayton brothers who changed the world.