ON THE SAME PAGE
2025-2026 CLAREMONT COMMUNITY READ
West With Giraffes has been chosen as our 2025-2026 Community Read.
The Friends of the Claremont Library will offer three events to explore this remarkable historical novel, a 2021 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction.
As always, our library will offer copies of West With Giraffes for checkout. The library also has books for sale at $15 each.
Read more about West with Giraffes on the author's website:
https://www.lyndarutledge.com/WestwGiraffes.htm
To learn more about West With Giraffes, check out the author's 2022 lecture for Furman University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (1 hour) and her discussion of the book's selection as the 2023 Texas Great Read (3.5 minutes).
As always, our library will offer copies of West With Giraffes for checkout. The library also has books for sale at $15 each.
Read more about West with Giraffes on the author's website:
https://www.lyndarutledge.com/WestwGiraffes.htm
To learn more about West With Giraffes, check out the author's 2022 lecture for Furman University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (1 hour) and her discussion of the book's selection as the 2023 Texas Great Read (3.5 minutes).
Digital fine artist Joel Cinnamon holding the lawn sign he designed for this year's Claremont Read.
What is On The Same Page?
The Friends of the Claremont Library sponsors the annual citywide reading program Claremont: On the Same Page. We engage as many people as possible in discussing one book as the basis for a shared experience. Local reading groups and educators are encouraged to read the book in their activities or curriculum. After the book is selected in September, various local events are offered to discuss it and related topics. All events are free and open to the public.
Past On The Same Page book selections*
2024: Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
2023:This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2022: A Fire Story by Brian Fries
2021: Always a Song by Ellen Harper
2020: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2019: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2018:The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017:Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel
2016: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
2015: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2014: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2013: Take One Candle Light a Room: A Novel by Susan Straight
2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2011: Into The Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
2010: The God of War by Marisa Silver
2009: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
2008: The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
2007: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
*Click on the linked book titles to learn more about these past selections.
The Friends of the Claremont Library sponsors the annual citywide reading program Claremont: On the Same Page. We engage as many people as possible in discussing one book as the basis for a shared experience. Local reading groups and educators are encouraged to read the book in their activities or curriculum. After the book is selected in September, various local events are offered to discuss it and related topics. All events are free and open to the public.
Past On The Same Page book selections*
2024: Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
2023:This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2022: A Fire Story by Brian Fries
2021: Always a Song by Ellen Harper
2020: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2019: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2018:The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017:Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel
2016: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
2015: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2014: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2013: Take One Candle Light a Room: A Novel by Susan Straight
2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2011: Into The Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
2010: The God of War by Marisa Silver
2009: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
2008: The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
2007: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
*Click on the linked book titles to learn more about these past selections.