Read Furiously Community Updates
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Our final Read Furiously Day announcement features one of our favorite subjects: our community work. It’s really fun to be at a community event and hear the phrase, “book people.” We feel we’re in a special club of readers who understand how and why books can change the world. Therefore, everyone at Read Furiously understands that our duty as “book people” is to provide as much support as we can to our communities.
Our Little Free Library
Since first installing our Little Free Library in Banchoff Park, we’ve worked hard each year to find ways we can use our humble book box as a way to nurture and support literacy through the greater Trenton area. From filling it with back to school kits for kids, to making it a Pokestop in Pokemon Go, and even installing a second “Kids Book Box” to the library, each year we’re looking for new and innovative ways to engage with the community and help spread the love of reading. This year is no different, and we think we’ve found a great way to put our Little Free Library on the map. The GeoCache map, that is. This fall, just in time to enjoy the leaves changing color, we’ll be adding a secret Read Furiously Geocache treasure box to the Little Free Library.
Book Donations
This year also saw us donating over 200 books to the nonprofit organization BookSmiles over the course of 2025. And none of this would be possible without the support of our Furious Readers. Each purchase you make, whether it’s buying one of our original titles or a bookmark from the Read Furiously Mobile Bookshop, a portion of every sale we make goes into helping us support the literary activism at the core of Read Furiously.
Our Indie Bookstores of New Jersey wall calendar
This month our Indie Bookstores of New Jersey 2027 wall calendar arrived, a labor of love from authors Bill Hemmig, Margaret Montet, Adam Wilson, and S. Atzeni. Bill and Margaret came up with the idea at a 2026 Read Furiously event at Commonplace Reader in Yardley, PA (one of our wonderful community partners!), and the origin story of this project and the way it has evolved illustrates how we try to support our local bookstores.
Over the last few months, our authors have traveled to these bookstores, met with the owners and booksellers, and embedded themselves into the communities (we *may* have purchased lots of books as well…). We shared our findings on our website, including each bookstore’s specialty, where you can find them, and what makes them special. The final product is a 12-month wall calendar filled with pictures of each bookstore and the necessary information to plan a literary road trip in 2027.
If you wish to purchase a copy, we ask that you visit the bookstores that are carrying the calendar in stock: Commonplace Reader in Yardley, PA; Howling Basset Books in Lambertville, NJ; and Second Time Books in Mount Laurel, NJ. This calendar is our way of showing appreciation to the community bookstores who welcome every book person and remind us that books really will change the world.
From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you all for helping us support literacy and nurturing the next generation of Furious Readers.
Until next year: read often, read well, and (of course) read furiously!