Happy St Patrick's Day! 💚🤍🧡

To celebrate, we're highlighting some well-loved Irish works, all available for check-out in the Library ⤵️

New tote bags just arrived at the Library, especially these rust-colored ones 🍊🟠🥕

Drop by to the Library and purchase one while stocks last!

#americanlibraryinparis #library #library books

We're celebrating Valentine's Day at the Library the only we know how... with books! ❤️❤️

Staff member Josie is favoring books about hearts and heartbreak, whereas Claire has gone for some fun romance.

What do you LOVE to read?

#valentinesday #lovereading

It's Fitzcarraldo February here at the Library, and we're looking forward to welcoming a series of guest speakers published by programming partner Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Drop by the Members' Lounge and browse our display of books by authors speaking at the Library this month!

This week, the Library team is highlighting hidden gems from the stacks 💎📚

From love poetry to graphic novels, our staff members have picked a broad range of books that they think you should know about!

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Difficult to translate into English, #hygge evokes a feeling of cosiness, conviviality and contentment.

It can involve anything from lighting a scented candle to curling up with a good book!

Drop by the Members' Lounge to learn more about hygge and how to manifest it 📚

What are your New Year's Reading Resolutions?

We have dozens of collections from sci-fi and mysteries to graphic novels, cookbooks, and popular fiction to help you achieve them!

Here's staff member Yoon kicking off 2024 with roxane gay's essay collection 'Opinions'!

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There are still a few days left to stop by the Library to check out some holiday reads, including these exciting new releases and much more 📚

What will you be reading over the holidays?

Good news! All books checked out before the Library's annual closure on 23 December are due in January 2024, so you don't have to rush to bring them back before the winter break.

If you need a due date extension or a custom due date, get in touch with the team 📞🖱️

📣 New e-Books and e-Audiobooks alert 📣

We've got your winter holiday reading sorted with a brand new batch of digital books that has just landed over on Libby/OverDrive 🎧📱

Log in to Libby today to browse the new selection: libbyapp.com/library/americ…

To celebrate Joan by Katherine J. Chen (the winner of this year's Book Award), we've curated a selection of biographies and other literary renderings of this legendary historical figure, including Mary Gordon's biography of Joan of Arc which inspired Chen to write her novel.

From 63 submissions down to 1...

Next week, on 9 November, we'll announce the winner of this year's American Library in Paris Book Award. Stay tuned! 🏆

#ALPBookAward #AmericanLibraryinParis #bookaward #booklover #bookcommunity #bookstagram #bookrecommendations

There are just a few weeks to go until we learn the winning title of the American Library in Paris Book Award 2023 📚 🏆!

Which of the five shortlisted titles (pictured) have you already read?

#alpbookaward #americanlibraryinparis #literaryprizes #readingrecommendation

Congratulations to Fiona Sze-Lorrain whose debut novel, Dear Chrysanthemums, was longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction!

Join us at the Library on Oct 24 to hear Sze-Lorrain discuss her new novel. RSVP now!
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Thank you to all our wonderful speakers for last week's thought-provoking discussion on race in France, in partnership with Overseas Press Club.
Vivienne Walt Mame-Fatou Niang Rokhaya Diallo Angelique Chrisafis Roger Cohen

Rewatch the talk on our Youtube channel:
youtu.be/YW3tfggCHqA?fe…

Great to hear Cole Stangler present his new book #ParisIsNotDead at the The American Library in Paris this evening. Lively discussion about gentrification and housing policy in the City of Light.

#NobelLiteraturePrize 🏆 Norwegian author and playwright #JonFosse 's writing is defined more by form than content, where what is not said is often more revealing than what is.

Program Manager at The American Library in Paris Emily Biggs tell us more about him 👇

🏆 The Swedish Academy has awarded the #Nobelliteratureprize to Norwegian playwright #JonFosse , whose plays are among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe.

📜 He was honoured 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.

For all our followers: you can join this exciting discussion with Cole Stangler at the The American Library in Paris
from wherever you are by signing up via the link below! 📚

The event will begin at 19:30 Paris time, 18:30 London time.

americanlibraryinparis.org/event/stangler…

Ladee Hubbard is launching the Scholar of Note Program at The American Library in Paris!

Join her hybrid event on Sept. 26, or in person at the library on Sept. 28 & Oct. 4.

Our foundation is proud to sponsor the Visiting Fellowship. Visit our website to learn more: degrootfoundation.org/alip-scholar-o…