Just released—NYPL's Best Books of 2021!📚

Find out if your favorite books made this year's list—plus, discover the Library’s treasures with our new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app! [View in browser]( [Forward]( [Donate]( [NYPL Connect] Get SimplyE, the Library's free e-reader app! [SimplyE on iOS]( [SimplyE on Android]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In the Spotlight: Best Books of 2021 [Introducing Our Best Books of 2021 for Kids, Teens, and Adults!]( Introducing Our Best Books of 2021 for Kids, Teens, and Adults! Just released! Discover the Best Books of 2021, handpicked by our staff experts, who read thousands of books published this year to select the top titles for kids, teens, and adults. Find the best new fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, poetry, kids’ books in Spanish, and much more. Explore e-books and accessible formats, and start borrowing today—happy reading! [Explore]( libros para pequeños de 2021]( Mejores libros para pequeños de 2021 El personal experto de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York ha compilado una lista de los mejores libros infantiles del año 2021 publicados en español, incluyendo libros ilustrados, ficción y no ficción. Explore otras listas disponibles en inglés y más para lectores de todas las edades. [Explore]( --------------------------------------------------------------- New Exhibition: Discover the Library’s Treasures [Book Now: An Experience to Treasure This Holiday Season!]( Book Now: An Experience to Treasure This Holiday Season! Treat yourself this holiday season with a visit to the Library’s new major exhibition—all for free! Tickets are now available for the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures through December 31. View some of the most extraordinary items from our world-renowned collections—objects, artworks, texts, and recordings that are inspiring and empowering visitors to discover, learn, and create new knowledge today and in the years ahead. Reserve your free tickets today! [Reserve Tickets]( [Learn More]( Explore Our Digital Guide with Bloomberg Connects]( NEW! Explore Our Digital Guide with Bloomberg Connects Delve deeper into the Library’s new major exhibition, the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures, with our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Discover all 250+ collection items from the exhibition, the accompanying audio guide—available in English, Spanish, and with verbal descriptions—and more, all in the palm of your hand. Download the app today to explore the exhibition during your visit—or from anywhere, anytime! [Learn More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Events [The Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Radical Black, LGBTQ+, Feminist Lives]( The Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Radical Black, LGBTQ+, Feminist Lives Thurs, Dec 2 | 6:30 PM | Online This exclusive conversation will bring together four groundbreaking thinkers whose work examines the long history of Black women combating racism and misogyny through collective action. The discussion will feature Emily L. Thuma (All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence), Moya Bailey (Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance), Laura L. Lovett (With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism), and Barbara Smith (Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith). [Attend]( York, My Village: Uwem Akpan with Elif Batuman]( New York, My Village: Uwem Akpan with Elif Batuman Tues, Dec 7 | 7 PM | Online Tune in for a conversation between Uwem Akpan, award-winning author of New York, My Village, and bestselling novelist Elif Batuman. In his debut novel, Akpan explores tribalism from Nigerian villages to New York publishing houses and melds humor, tenderness, and pain to create a saga of unanticipated strife that proves there is still hope in sharing our stories. He researched and wrote New York, My Village during his fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. [Attend]( Library: A Fragile History—Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree with Jane Kamensky]( The Library: A Fragile History—Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree with Jane Kamensky Wed, Dec 8 | 1 PM | Online In their new book, The Library: A Fragile History, historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen survey the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's greatest collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts. In a conversation moderated by historian Jane Kamensky, they discuss the complex legacy of collecting. [Attend]( --------------------------------------------------------------- More for Kids & Teens [Creating Digital Comics with Pixton—Available Through Your Library Card!]( Create Digital Comics with Pixton—Available Through Your Library Card! Kids and teens can log on to Pixton using their library card to start creating their very own digital comics—no drawing skills required! Select characters and backgrounds from a variety of themes including superheroes, fairy tales, Black history, Ancient Egypt, and many more. Get creative writing dialogue and customizing costumes, facial expressions, and poses. All comics are saved automatically to your NYPL Pixton account so you can keep working on them later—or download and print them out! Information about Pixton is available in English, español (Spanish), and 中文 (Chinese). [Learn More]( NYPL After School Is Back! Monday to Thursday every week, kids aged 6–12 can drop by any of our 20 participating branch locations after school for fun activities, reading time, snacks, or to get extra help from one of our tutors or Teen Reading Ambassadors. No need to register—just show up! Everything is free. [Learn More]( E-Magazines Kids & Teens Can Enjoy at Home Kids and teens can explore magazines from around the world and in many languages from inside the Library or from the comfort of home. Hobbies, sports, fashion, history, news, animals, gaming—there's something for everyone from preschoolers to older teens. [Learn More]( Author Talks: Tanya Boteju]( TeenLIVE Author Talk: Tanya Boteju Tues, Nov 30 | 4:30 PM | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) & Online Join us online or at the Teen Center at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) as we chat with Tanya Boteju, the author of Bruised. [Attend]( --------------------------------------------------------------- More Events & Resources [Get Lit! Livestream Q&A: Passing by Nella Larsen]( Get Lit! Livestream Q&A: Passing by Nella Larsen Thurs, Dec 2 | 7 PM | Online Join WNYC and NYPL for a livestream conversation between Passing film director Rebecca Hall, composer Dev Hynes, and Get Lit with All of It host Alison Stewart. [Attend]( Chat: Picturing the Subway in 1970s New York]( Doc Chat: Picturing the Subway in 1970s New York Thurs, Dec 2 | 3:30 PM | Online In this episode of Doc Chat, NYPL's Julie Golia and historian Kim Phillips-Fein explore a collection of evocative photographs of the New York City subway system in the 1970s by Alen MacWeeney, discussing what the images reveal about the city during a decade of crisis and transformation. Doc Chat is NYPL's popular virtual program series that digs deep into the stories behind the Library’s most interesting collections. [Attend]( Local Treasures: A History of Tenement Housing of the Lower East Side Fri, Dec 3 | 2 PM | Seward Park Library Dig deeper into the tenement housing photos that feature in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures with this special event at Seward Park Library with historian Katie Vogel from Henry Street Settlement and NYPL curator Philip Sutton. [Attend]( New York StartUP! 2022 Business Plan Competition Orientation Sat, Dec 4 | 10:30 AM | Online Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? The 12th Annual New York StartUP! Business Plan Competition launches this fall! Entrants could win $15,000 to start their business—as well as gain practical insights about starting and growing a business—all while using the comprehensive small business resources at NYPL’s Thomas Yoseloff Business Center. [Attend]( --------------------------------------------------------------- On Display—Closing Soon! [The Skeleton Caricatures of Posada | Las meras meras calaveras de Posada]( The Skeleton Caricatures of Posada | Las meras meras calaveras de Posada Through Sun, Nov 28 | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building & Online The Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada is best known for his calaveras—the skeleton caricatures that adorned the special broadsheets issued for Day of the Dead, celebrated each year on November 2. The Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, has one of the largest collections of original Posada prints outside of Mexico. Visit the Library on 42nd Street to see our bilingual pop-up display of Posada prints—plus, explore the expanded digital exhibition online. This exhibition is in English and Spanish. [Learn More]( Seen: Schomburg Center Photography Exhibition at Outdoor Festival]( Been Seen: Schomburg Center Photography Exhibition at Outdoor Festival Through Wed, Dec 1 | St. Nicholas Park in Harlem There’s not long left to see the Schomburg Center’s outdoor banner exhibition, Been Seen, at St. Nicholas Park in Harlem! The exhibition places in conversation the work of Harlem-based studio photographer Austin Hansen (1910–1996) with six contemporary photographers, centering the gaze of Black photographers as they celebrate Black life, from the ordinary to the particular. This show is produced in partnership with NYC Parks and Photoville. [Learn More]( While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimage]( Traveling While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimage Through Sat, Dec 11 | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Since the start of their experience in the Americas, Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance. See the Schomburg Center's exhibition exploring the history of traveling while Black—which includes home movies filmed by Malcolm X during his 1964 journeys in Northern Africa and trunks from Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche—before it closes! [Learn More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Shop the Library, Support the Library [NYPL Gifts for Everyone]( NYPL Gifts for Everyone We’ve got something for everyone on your list! 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Liebman, The von der Heyden Family Foundation, John and Constance Birkelund, and The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, and with additional gifts from Helen and Roger Alcaly, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Arts and Letters Foundation Inc., William W. Karatz, Merilee and Roy Bostock, and Cullman Center Fellows. Major support for educational programming is provided by Merryl H. and James S. Tisch. Major support for children's and young adult programming is provided by the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences. Major support for youth education is provided by Arthur W. Koenig; Stavros Niarchos Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Barakett Endowment for Children’s and Young Adult Programs and Services; The Bok Family Foundation; Lisa and Jeff Blau; The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; the Institute of Museum and Library Services; The Lisa E. Javitch Early Literacy Initiative; The Pinkerton Foundation; the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation; the Gray Foundation; The Joseph H. 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