NEA Big Read Grantees

2025-2026

Beaver Island District Library
Beaver Island, Michigan - The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Bison School District 52-1
Bison, South Dakota - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Charlottesville, Virginia - You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limon
Central Arkansas Library System
Little Rock, Arkansas - Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Chesapeake Children's Museum INC
Annapolis, Maryland - You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limon
City of Oceanside - Oceanside Public Library
Oceanside, California - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
Cleveland Heights, Ohio - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
College of Western Idaho
Nampa, Idaho - Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Creative Movement INC
Dallas, Texas - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Du Page Symphony
Naperville, Illinois - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Hartford Public Library
Hartford, Connecticut - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Hope College
Holland, Michigan - I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Illinois State Museum Society
Springfield, Illinois - Fuzz by Mary Roach
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center
Cleveland, Ohio - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Kuumba Lynx
Chicago, Illinois - Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Learning Through Art
Cincinnatti, Ohio - You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limon
Legacy 166
Mobile, Alabama - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Lewis & Clark Library
Helena, Montana - Fuzz by Mary Roach
Lexington Public Library
Lexington, Nebraska - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck