TwentyTwenty Books

08/12/2019

We are thrilled to partner with LaGuardia Community College to offer a free copy of "Malcriada & Other Stories" by Lorraine Avila (Dominican Writers Association, 2019) to students in three English classes this fall! If you'd like to sponsor a book, we welcome donations at https://www.twentytwentybooks.org/donations.

05/21/2019

Students at LaGuardia Community College read "Her Body and Other Parties" and put together visual maps of the books and zines in response.

05/13/2019

This is going to be a wonderful event, and we are so excited that we could help make it happen! Congratulations in advance to the students at LaGuardia Community College for their excellent work!

04/20/2019

“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive."

“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.”

01/31/2019

We are thrilled to partner with LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and to provide 100 copies of "Her Body and Other Parties" to students for discussion during the semester and a cool event in May.

05/22/2018

We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Henry Street Settlement and SCAN NY for our first book clubs!

03/06/2018

TwentyTwenty Books believes that being a talented author telling great stories is important, but if an author uses their power to harm others, we will not include their books on our list, no matter how wonderful their writing is or groundbreaking their work. As a result of the allegations of sexual harassment against Sherman Alexie, we have removed "Indian Killer" from our reading list.

02/07/2018

We had a great meeting with a potential community partner this morning, and began reading HALSEY STREET by Naima Costa. What a fantastic day!

01/26/2018

We are reading "Make Your Home Among Strangers" by Jennine Capo Crucet, and we are loving it.

01/18/2018

So many of the books on our list (in fact, help us diversify our list through suggestions!) are by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Understanding all Americans' stories makes us a better nation. We are all .

01/17/2018

Our Board and crowd-sourced suggestions lead to a great list of books that participants in TwentyTwenty Books book clubs might choose from. Take a look (https://www.twentytwentybooks.org/books/)! What are we missing? Is there anything that shouldn't be there?

TwentyTwenty Books partners with community-based organizations to create book clubs for people ages 16-25 and provides adult fiction and memoirs.

01/07/2018

A year ago, I picked up "Mulberry" by Paulette Boudreaux, at AWP and I finally had the chance to read it tonight. So much to think about! If you are looking for "quiet" literary fiction set in a black Mississippi community in 1963-1964, this a good choice.