The Big
Read: Peoria Reads!
Peoria Reads
in a one book cone city project instituted
and led by Common Place and the Peoria
Public Library. In 2007, the Peoria Reads
joined forces with The Big Read. Books
selected from previous years are:
2002 – A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J.
Gains
2003 – The Reappearance of Sam Webber by
Jonathan Scott Fuqua
2004 – The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner & Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl &
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
2005 – Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
2006 – Nickled and Dimed: On Not Getting by
in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
2007 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2008 – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2009 - The Maltese Falcon by
Dashiell Hammett
2010 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Please visit The
Big Read: Peoria Reads website,
www.BigReadPeoriaReads.org, to find out
more.
The Big Read is an initiative of the
National Endowment for the Arts in
partnership with the Institute of Museum and
Library Services and Arts Midwest.
This program is sponsored in part by Friends
of Peoria Public Library.
This program is made possible in part by a
grant from the Illinois Humanities Council,
the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and the Illinois General Assembly.
This program/project has been made possible,
in part, by a grant from The Yeomans Fund of
the Community Foundation of Central
Illinois.
