Dubuque County Reads 2026 Book Discussions

Schedule

Thu Mar 05 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Steeple Square | Dubuque, IA

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Join ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐๐ฌ to discuss the 2026 book ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ ๐Š๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ.
"๐ด โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ , ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ ๐Š๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘˜โ„Ž๐‘œฬ๐‘ก๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ฆ'๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘”๐‘”๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘“๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก."
In its fourth year, ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐๐ฌ promotes literacy, fosters civic engagement, and encourages respectful dialogue through book discussions, storytimes, and special events. The 2026 theme explores ecological sustainability, Indigenous identity, food systems, and cultural heritage.
Free copies of ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ ๐Š๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ will be available at participating libraries while supplies last.
For more information on Dubuque County Reads visit: www.DBQREADS.org.
๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ซ๐ž๐š ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ:
๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Thursday, March 5th @ 1:00 PM
๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ž-๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Monday, March 9th @ 6:00 PM
๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Thursday, March 12th @ 4:30 PM
๐‰๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Š๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ž๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Monday, March 16th @ 6:00 PM
๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Wednesday, March 18th @ 1:30 PM
๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Wednesday, March 18th @ 12:30 PM
๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ญ - ๐€๐ฌ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ: Wednesday, March 18th @ 6:30 PM
๐–๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Thursday, March 19th @ 12:30 PM
๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ: Thursday, March 19th @ 4:00 PM

๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ:

๐’๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: Thursday, March 5th @ 1:30 PM
๐’๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Thursday, March 5th @ 6:30 PM
๐’๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ: Thursday, April 23rd @ 7:30 PM (Virtual Discussion, RSVP Required)
All events are free and open to the public.
๐’๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ:
๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ 
๐ท๐ด๐ฟ๐ผ๐‘๐ถ
๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘”๐‘–๐‘’-๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐ท๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘ก
๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’๐‘  ๐พ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ท๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘’
๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ถ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘” ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐‘…๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก๐‘  ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’
๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™ ๐ฝ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›
๐‘†๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’
๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘”๐‘–๐‘’-๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐น๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’
๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’ ๐‘€๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ด๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก
๐‘†๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘‰๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
๐‘†๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘†๐‘ก ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘–๐‘ 
๐‘†๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘‰๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ
Dubuque County Reads is organized by the Dubuque Area Library Information Consortium (DALINC).
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