New Castle County Reads

2020 Selection: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

2020 NCC Reads - Pachinko - April 23 at Chase Center

We are excited to announce that the 2020 NCC Reads title is Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.  The 2017 novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Dayton Literacy Peace Prize. Richly told and profoundly moving, the bestselling epic features four generations of a poor, proud immigrant family's fight to control their destinies in Japan -- surviving and thriving against the indifferent arc of history.

Mark your calendars now for an evening with the author on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 pm at the Chase Center on the Riverfront. 

Part of a Book Group? Beginning January 3 at 10 am, you can sign up your local book group to be part of NCC Reads 2020.  You will receive updated information about the program and related events.  Books will be available for your group while supplies last.  Please remember that book groups need to register each year. 

You can also borrow a copy of the book by visiting any New Castle County Library.

David Mitchell, bestselling author of the Bone Clocks,  called Pachinko, "a deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the 20th century." The New York Times called the novel, "Stunning... Despite the compelling sweep of time and history, it is the characters and their tumultuous lives that propel the narrative... A compassionate, clear gaze at the chaotic landscape of life itself."

Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018), the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000). She is the author of another novel, Free Food for Millionaires. 

For a summary and additional information about Pachinko, please visit www.minjinlee.com

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Be sure to check back to find out more about related programs! 

Have You Read It?

2019

Mudbound

2018

Orphan Train

2017

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

2016

The Boys in the Boat

2015

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

The 2020 NCC Reads program is the 16th annual event in our series, which started in 2005. Beginning in 2010, the New Castle County Reads series began to feature an author talk at St. Mark's High School, so that a large number of community members could enjoy not only reading the book, but hearing the author. Each year since then, this highlight event has attracted more than 500 people to a free event presenting talented writers and an opportunity to meet the author during book signings. As participation has expanded, the author talk moved to the facilities at the Chase Center On The Riverfront, beginning in 2015.

The NCC Reads committee has also reached out to area book groups in an effort to create a true community reading event. To date, at least 50 area book clubs, with 560 members, have registered to be part of the NCC Reads experience.

Libraries have hosted book discussion programs as well, so that all readers have an opportunity to share their thoughts on each year's featured title. Additional programs relating to each title have added to the breadth and depth of understanding and sharing about the themes and ideas found therein.

2014

The Silver Linings Playbook

2013

March

2012

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

2011

The Art of Racing in the Rain

2010

Bel Canto

2009

A Walk in the Woods

2008

The Glass Castle

2007

Digging to America

2006

Smashed

2005

Riding the Bus With My Sister
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