Ohio Center for the Book

Ohio Center for the Book The Ohio Center for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library is an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

The Ohio Center for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library is dedicated to promoting and celebrating books, reading, literacy, and libraries to Ohio's citizens and the book community at large. The Ohio Center for the Book @ Cleveland Public Library maintains a growing collection of fiction and non-fiction books written by Ohio authors. This circulating collection is housed in the Literature Department at the Cleveland Public Library.

06/06/2026

We encourage you to seek out Satrapi's work to see why we call comics "a unique medium of expression." We've included her books in several of our Get Graphic! comics discussions series over the years.

Saturday, June 6th, is bittersweet because it will be the last Novels in Translation meeting at Clevobooks as the bookst...
06/03/2026

Saturday, June 6th, is bittersweet because it will be the last Novels in Translation meeting at Clevobooks as the bookstore is closing. They'll be discussing We Do Not Part: A Novel by Han Kang (translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). If you've never been to a NIT program or Clevobooks, now's the perfect time to visit. Stay tuned for updates about NIT's future programs.

Saturday, June 6th, 2026
12 PM
Clevobooks
1026 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115

06/02/2026

The Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the finalists for the 85th annual Ohio Book Awards. First given in 1942, the awards are the second oldest state literary prizes in the nation and honor outstanding works by Ohio authors and illustrators in six categories: Fiction, Poetry, Juvenile Literature, Middle Grade Literature, Young Adult Literature, and Nonfiction. The seventh category, Book About Ohio or an Ohioan, may include books by non-Ohio authors.

Nearly every major writer from Ohio in the past 80 years has been honored, including James Thurber, Robert McCloskey, Toni Morrison, Mary Oliver, Rita Dove, Hanif Abdurraqib, Anthony Doerr, Celeste Ng, Edmund White, Virginia Hamilton, and many more.

Seven of the Ohio Book Award winners, as well as the Marvin Grant recipient, are selected by juries. The Readers’ Choice Award is determined by voters in a public online poll. Over 3,500 votes were cast for 2025's Readers’ Choice Award.

This year's finalists include literary superstars as well as debut authors. Our finalists come from all over the state and include native Ohioans and lifelong residents, as well as writers who no longer live here, but whose time in Ohio continues to be a deep influence on their writing and careers.

See the full list and learn more here: https://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohio-book-awards/

Calling all true-crime fans! This month's installment of Get Graphic's Ohio author series is "Torso" by Brian Michael Be...
06/01/2026

Calling all true-crime fans! This month's installment of Get Graphic's Ohio author series is "Torso" by Brian Michael Bendis (Cleveland) and Marc Andreyko. This is Bendis' interpretation of one of the most famous unsolved murders.

June 4th, 2026
6 PM
Forest City Brewery
2135 Columbus Rd
Cleveland, OH 44113

05/21/2026

We're excited to share an episode from the new PASSAGES podcast that has a special Ohio connection! This is the conversation Namwali Serpell had with Hanif Abdurraqib at Literary Cleveland 's Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison kickoff event in Columbus back in February! Listen now: https://bit.ly/4u8IpqV

Ohio's picks for this year's Great Reads from Great Places are "Once a Wasteland: From Toxic Dump to National Park" by D...
05/21/2026

Ohio's picks for this year's Great Reads from Great Places are "Once a Wasteland: From Toxic Dump to National Park" by Diane Muldrow and illustrated by Amy Jindra Hodgson and "The Musical Mozinskis" by Susan Petrone.
To learn more about Great Reads from Great Places and these titles, as well as the full 2026 booklist visit: https://bit.ly/49Ixcpo

05/05/2026

Lights, Camera, Action! The Page Count podcast celebrates young writers in Northeast Ohio by sharing snippets of work appearing in the forthcoming 10th annual Teen Book published by Lake Erie Ink 🌟 🎥 Learn more about the anthology, Lake Erie Ink, and the May 16 launch event for this anthology here:
https://bit.ly/4eu1QGi

56 years ago today - May 4, 1970 - the tragic events at Kent State University occurred. One of THE best introductions to...
05/04/2026

56 years ago today - May 4, 1970 - the tragic events at Kent State University occurred. One of THE best introductions to that history is the heavily-researched nonfiction graphic novel *Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio* by Ohio's own Derf Backderf . It is one of the best examples of what comics can uniquely do to tell a story. If you haven't added it to your "To Be Read" list yet, you owe it to yourself to do it.

This month's Get Graphic is discussing "Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons" by Columbus native Kelly Sue DeConnick and l...
05/04/2026

This month's Get Graphic is discussing "Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons" by Columbus native Kelly Sue DeConnick and legendary Wonder Woman writer/artist Phil Jimenez.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2026
6:30pm
Forest City Brewery
2135 Columbus Rd
Cleveland, OH 44113

The next Novels in Translation book club is reading "Woman Seated" by Zhang Yueran (translated by Jeremy Tiang).Saturday...
04/30/2026

The next Novels in Translation book club is reading "Woman Seated" by Zhang Yueran (translated by Jeremy Tiang).

Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
12pm
Clevo Books
1026 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115

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