Arlington Reads
Our signature series brings authors and readers together to talk about the important topics of our time.
This fall, Arlington Public Library’s long-running signature author talk program Arlington Reads will celebrate the Afrofuturist and fantasy works of six award-winning authors and illustrators—Hope Larson (Sept. 19), Nnedi Okorafor and Roseanne Brown (Oct. 10), Damian Duffy and John Jennings (Oct. 24) and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Nov. 14).
Fantasy illustrator and cartoonist Hope Larson will kick off the fall series followed by five Afrofuturist artists and writers, who reimagine, reinterpret and reclaim the past and present by using science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the Black experience.
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2025 Arlington Reads: Share the Love with Romance
Arlington Reads returns with a big heart 
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Romance is the theme for the 2025 Arlington Reads author talk series, which will feature five acclaimed writers starting with Julia Quinn (Feb. 13), Curtis Sittenfeld (Apr. 10), Casey McQuiston (Aug. 10) and David and Nicola Yoon (Nov. 6).
A genre largely written by women for women, romance has exploded on the scene to include a wide diversity of authors and stories.
The author talk series kicks off at Kenmore Middle School with Julia Quinn on February 13, 2025. Quinn is the author of the “Bridgerton” series which has been adapted into one of the most-watched television series by Netflix.
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Explore our Afrofuturism book list.
"Afrofuturism expresses notions of Black identity, agency and freedom through art, creative works and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life" (National Museum of African American History and Culture).
Imagine worlds that could be and explore the many facets of this liberating genre with a few of our favorite titles by our visiting Arlington Reads authors and beyond.
Arlington Reads promotes literacy, the joy of reading and intergenerational participation. Since its inception in 2006, Arlington Reads has featured both national and international fiction and nonfiction authors and cultural icons, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wendell Berry, Katherine Boo, Matthew Desmond, Anthony Doerr, Richard Ford, Roxane Gay, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Colum McCann, Tim O’Brien, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Zadie Smith, Elizabeth Strout, Colson Whitehead and many more.
Arlington Reads is made possible in part through the generous support of the Friends of the Arlington Public Library.