Did you know: We have copies of the 2024 NYC Book Award winners at our current exhibition, which celebrates 30 years of our annual literary awards! We celebrated the award winners with a special ceremony this year on Monday, May 12! Our winners are 🏆 📚 📖 Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York (Atlantic Monthly Press) 📖 Terry Williams, Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York (Columbia University Press) 📖 Karen Valby, The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Pantheon) 📖 Stan Mack, Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995 (Fantagraphics) THE HORNBLOWER AWARD FOR A FIRST BOOK 📖 Ledia Xhoga, Misinterpretation: A Novel (Tin House) You can find more information about the awards on our website (Linktree has all the details). Be sure to visit our exhibition (free and open to the public) and check out the books! #NYCBookAwards #oldestNYClibrary #nyclibrary #writers #readerscommunity (fb)

“What is more important in a library than anything else—than everything else—is the fact that it exists.” ~Archibald MacLeish (Ninth Librarian of Congress, poet and writer) Nothing makes us happier than a cart full of freshly picked books 📚✨ Summer is here! Stay cool, stay hydrated, and soak up some good reads while you’re at it! ☀️ ✨Don’t forget: Support your local library and keep the love for community stories alive. We want to know: What’s on your reading list right now? Drop your current fave in the comments! ⬇️📖 #summerreads #bookloversunite #WhatAreYouReading #oldestNYClibrary #NYClibrary #librariesmatter (fb)