Community Reading Events
The library schedules regular community-wide reading events like Let's Talk About It Oklahoma, which includes a series of books on one theme with scholar presentations and small group discussions; and One Book, One Community: Stillwater Reads..., in which the entire community reads one book and attends multiple educational and entertainment events that provide a deeper understanding of the selected book.The library and its partners support these reading events to foster reading, community involvement, and lifelong learning.
PAST EVENTS
NEA Big Read: Stillwater (Oct. 2-Nov.11, 2021)
Get Your Reading Kicks on Route 66: a Let's Talk About It, OK series (March 7-May 2, 2019)
One Book, One Community: "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" (March-April 2018)
Let's Talk About It, Oklahoma: Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series (June-Aug. 2017)
Let's Talk About it, Oklahoma: "Much Depends on Dinner" (Aug-Nov. 2016)
Two Books, One Community: The Great Gatsby and Fire in Beulah (March-April 2016)
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (October 2015)
“True Grit” by Charles Portis (Spring 2015)
Let's Talk About It, Oklahoma: "Journey Stories" (Sept. 16-Nov. 11, 2014)
Stillwater Reads Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Feb. 3 - March 16, 2014)