Since 2002, Greensboro Public Library has sponsored major city-wide reading projects every other year. This site is an archive of those projects as they existed on our website. You will find listings of events, images, recordings and other elements unique to each project.

• 2021 - There There by Tommy Orange
• 2019 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• 2017 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• 2015 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• 2013 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
• 2010 - The Soloist by Steve Lopez
• 2006 - Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
• 2008 - The Pleasure Was Mine by Tommy Hayes
• 2004 - The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
• 2002 - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Additionally, we have sponsored smaller projects around an author visit or title:

• Toni Morrison
• Isabel Allende
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)