February 2, 2012 - March 11, 2012
ANCHORAGE READS 2007 - 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Project led the way to revitalize the role of literature in communities across the nation. Anchorage Reads is an Anchorage Public Library program to promote reading, literacy and community-building by encouraging people of different ages and backgrounds to engage in a shared reading experience and talk about one book.
Sponsored by Target since 2009, we greatly appreciate the generosity and commitment of our past and present sponsors and local community partners. Anchorage Reads 2012 runs February 2 through March 11, 2012. Anyone can participate. Pick up the current book at your local library or bookstore and get reading!
- 2012 The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- 2011 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- 2010 Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- 2009 The Trap by John Smelcer
- 2008 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 2007 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Author Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. She is also the author of several children’s books, Embroideries, and the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, and The Complete Persepolis.
~Courtesy of Marjane Satrapi/Pantheon Books