Spokane Is Reading

03/20/2026

Tonight at Auntie's Bookstore! Our 2023 Spokane Is Reading featured author Kim Fu will be in conversation with our committee chair Sharma Shields. Fu’s new novel is fantastic and just received a rave review in The New York Times.

10/24/2025

10/23/2025

Thank you, The Spokesman-Review!

In “The Reformatory,” author Tananarive Due blends historical fiction and horror to tell the story of the Gracetown School for Boys, a fictionalization of the institution Dozier School for Boys set in Florida in 1950.

10/23/2025

We can't wait to see you all today to celebrate our annual Spokane Is Reading event!

Hear award-winning author Tananarive Due discuss her book "The Reformatory", which centers around the history of Florida’s infamous Dozier School for Boys with honesty and imagination.
Join us for a watch party of this virtual conversation with the author:

1pm Spokane Valley Library
7pm Central Library

In partnership with Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library District and Auntie's Bookstore.

Please note: Because of unforeseen circumstances for the author, she is unable to travel to Spokane, despite the original intent to have her visit us in person. We are still delighted to host her virtually at 1:00pm at Spokane Valley Library and 7:00pm at Central Library.

If you prefer to watch from home, the evening event will be streamed live from Spokane Public Library's YouTube channel. The afternoon event recording will be available via SCLD for 30 days after the event.

10/20/2025

Thank you, The Inlander, for this great interview with Tananarive Due!

Months after author Tananarive Due faced the tragedy of burying her mother, she got an unusual call from the Florida State Attorney’s Office presenting her with another: the untold story

10/14/2025

It’s giveaway time again! Follow the steps below to enter to win a Spokane Is Reading tote bag filled with copies of three of Tananarive Due’s books, THE REFORMATORY, MY SOUL TO KEEP, and THE BETWEEN. This giveaway starts on October 14 and ends on October 16, 2025 at 3pm PT.

To enter:
1. Follow .
2. Like this post.
3. Tag a book-loving friend in the comments.

One winner will be chosen at random. If you win, you must be able to pick up your books and tote bag at Auntie’s Bookstore (402 W. Main Ave) in downtown Spokane.

**Disclaimer: This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Instagram. We will NEVER ask you for your credit card number or other financial information. Report any account that does so. Giveaway is funded by Spokane Is Reading 501(c)3 funds (not library funds). Employees and immediate family members of employees of Auntie's Bookstore, Spokane Public Library and Spokane County Library District are not eligible.r

08/01/2025

Spokane Is Reading is immensely grateful to be a recipient of a 2025 SAGA grant! The Spokane Arts Grant Awards’ goal is to serve as a catalyst, fostering a robust, healthy arts community where individual artists, creative industries, and nonprofit arts and culture organizations thrive. Support from the SAGA program will help cover costs related to bringing award-winning novelist and Afrofuturist Tananarive Due to Spokane including travel, accommodations, and honorarium. This will be one of the largest-scale Spokane Is Reading events to date, building on the success of last year’s record-setting crowds for Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling. Spokane is Reading anticipates a wide and diverse turnout, especially given Due’s national acclaim and commitment to truth-telling through genre fiction. The community is invited engage in a shared literary experience, culminating in two free events with the author on October 23 at Spokane Valley Library (1pm) and Spokane Central Library (7pm). Copies of this year’s selection, The Reformatory, are available for checkout from both the city and county library systems and for sale at Auntie’s Bookstore.

07/31/2025

It’s giveaway time! Follow the steps below to enter to win a Spokane Is Reading tote bag filled with copies of three of Tananarive Due's books, THE REFORMATORY, MY SOUL TO KEEP, and THE BETWEEN. This giveaway starts on July 31 and ends on August 2, 2025 at 3pm PT.

To enter:
1. Follow Spokane Is Reading.
2. Like this post.
3. Tag a book-loving friend in the comments.

One winner will be chosen at random. If you win, you must be able to pick up your books and tote bag at Auntie's Bookstore (402 W. Main Ave) in downtown Spokane.

**Disclaimer: This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Facebook. We will NEVER ask you for your credit card number or other financial information. Report any account that does so. Giveaway is funded by Spokane Is Reading 501(c)3 funds (not library funds). Employees and immediate family members of employees of Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane Public Library and Spokane County Library District are not eligible.