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01/09/2026

We asked our Book Award Chair and Screeners to describe their favorite candidate this year BUT without giving anything away about it 👀 Can you guess what books they are talking about?

Stay tuned for the Shortlist announcement on 10 September. In the meantime, browse the Longlist on the link in bio.

31/08/2026

Mark your calendars: the American Library in Paris is a proud partner of Festival America 2026! From September 24–27, join over 60 American authors in Vincennes as the festival celebrates 250 years of the United States through North American literature and culture.

As part of our collaboration, we're thrilled to welcome acclaimed author Tommy Orange to the Library on 13 September for a conversation on Indigenous history and reclaiming the American story.

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Discover Festival America and grab your tickets: https://www.festival-america.com/
RSVP to see Tommy Orange at the Library: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/orange26/

29/08/2026

Got a free afternoon? Or a long train ride to get through? Instead of mindlessly scrolling, pick up one of these books you can finish in a single sitting and check off one (or a couple) of our Summer Reading Challenge prompts! 📚 Remember: read at least five books before 13 September to earn a reward worthy of a bookworm. Only a few weeks left! ⏱️

📖 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
📖 Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
📖 Ti Amo by Hanne Ørstavik
📖 Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
📖 Living With Jane Austen by Janet Todd

🔗 More on the Summer Reading Challenge: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/2026-summer-reading-challenge/

27/08/2026

📚 2026 AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD LONGLIST 📚

A Vast Horizon by Anna Thomasson

A story of friendship, love, and the pursuit of art set against the precarious backdrop of the late 1930s, World War II, and its aftermath.

Explore the longlist, and stay tuned for the shortlist announcement in the fall: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/

27/08/2026

Fall is here and so is our lineup of cultural programs and events. Join us for a season you won't want to miss! 🍂✨

✉ Letters Home with Fall 2026 Cultural Fellow Leïla Slimani

Reclaiming the American Story with Tommy Orange, in partnership with Festival America

Black Artists Collective: A Traveling Showcase of Award-Winning Children's Authors and Illustrations, featuring Paula Chase, Judy Allen Dodson, Sharon G. Flake, Ekua Holmes, E.B. Lewis, Ebony L. Mudd, Kelly Starling Lyons, and Tricia Elam Walker (ages 5 to adult)

How the World Views Trump's America with Nataliya Gumenyuk and Madeleine Schwartz

✉ Lessons from Istanbul with Suzy Hansen

Little People, BIG DREAMS with Maria Isabel Vergara (ages 5 to adult)

They Stole a City with Lauren Collins

✉ A Life in Letters with Virginia Evans

Head to our website to RSVP: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/calendar/

26/08/2026

We’re delighted to announce our Fall 2026 Cultural Fellow, Leïla Slimani. From her Prix Goncourt–winning breakthrough with The Perfect Nanny to the family-rooted trilogy of Country of Others and Watch Us Dance, Slimani has become one of France's most vital literary voices.

📅 Join Leïla Slimani on Wednesday 9 September for a conversation on writing, memory, identity, and the intersections of family and colonial history. This will be the inaugural event of Letters Home, our series of curated programs celebrating and exploring the many ways we imagine, remember, and return to home from afar.

🔗 Sign up: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/slimani26/

The Cultural Fellowship is generously supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the American Center for Art and Culture.

26/08/2026

This season, the Library invites you to celebrate the many ways we imagine, remember, and return home from afar with Letters Home, our series of curated cultural programs and hands-on activities for readers of every age.

Sign up to the first events of this series:
✉️ 09/09 Letters Home with Fall 2026 Cultural Fellow Leïla Slimani
✉️ 09/30 Lessons from Istanbul with Suzy Hansen
✉️ 07/10 A Life in Letters with Virginia Evans

https://americanlibraryinparis.org/letters-home/

📮 More soon!

24/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited our pop-up library at Paris Plages, organized in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Paris 📚🌊 As the weather cools and summer winds down, it was a joy to spend these last golden days reading by the river with you.

Missed us at the water's edge? Our America 250 reading list is still up on our website. Dive in! 🇺🇸🇫🇷
https://americanlibraryinparis.org/america250/

21/08/2026

📚 2026 AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD LONGLIST 📚

Rousseau's Lost Children by Gavin McCrea

Set in Paris, this audacious philosophical novel brings Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s investigations of human nature and society into the present day.

Explore the longlist, and stay tuned for the shortlist announcement in the fall: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/

17/08/2026

Trade your beach towel for a book (or bring both)—we are setting up shop at the water's edge! 🌊

Created with the U.S. Embassy in Paris, our open-air kiosk celebrates Franco-American friendship with 250+ books for all ages, including American classics, French titles in translation, manga, and magazines. 🇺🇸🇫🇷 Beyond reading, the kiosk will offer family activities, curated bibliographies on 250 years of American history, and the chance to win an annual household membership!

Just bring an ID to browse on-site all afternoon.

20 and 21 August | 12h–18h
📍 Bassin de la Villette

🔗 Learn more: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/paris-plages-pop-up/2026-08-20/

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