Established in 2003, the purpose of All Iowa Reads is to foster a sense of unity through reading. Iowans are encouraged to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same calendar year. Here is a look back at the titles over the years. Contact the library to have these books added to your next cartridge!
January D-List (Digital List Including Special Titles): All Iowa Reads
2003 – Peace like a river by Leif Enger DB54212 / BRC01671 / LT6721
2004 – Niagara Falls all over again by Elizabeth McCracken DB53633 / BRD20697 / LT7180
2005 – The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich DB58796 / LT7489
2006 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson DB59561 / BR16160 / LT7731
2007 – Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio by Jeffrey Kluger DBC19763 / BR15973 / LT7905
2008 – Digging to America by Anne Tyler DB61734 / BR16583 / LT8185
2009 – The rope walk by Carrie Brown BRD23553 / LT8328
2010 – Driftless by David Rhodes DB68424 / BRC01445 / LT8806
2011 – Sing them home by Stephanie Kallos DBC00178
2012 – Strength in what remains by Tracy Kidder DB69574 / LT10411
2013 – The year we left home by Jean Thompson DB74206
2014 – Little wolves by Thomas Maltman DBO15534 / BRD26569
2015 – My name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira DBC07135
2016 – Lila by Marilynne Robinson DB79899 / BR20575
2017 – Bottomland by Michelle Hoover DBC02885
2018 – The boys in the bunkhouse by Dan Barry DBC01811 / LT12571
2019 – This blessed earth: a year in the life of an American family farm by Ted Genoways DBC01969
2020 – The mothers by Brit Bennett DB86020
2021 – Little faith by Nickolas Butler DB94286 / BRN28071 / LT12930
2022 – The butterfly effect by Rachel Mans McKenny DBC19960 / BRN28392 / LT13353
2023 – How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu DB106990 / BR24553
2024 – The seed keeper by Diane Wilson DB105284
