Mayor Will Wynn and the Austin Public Library launch 2004 Mayor's Book Club

Inaugurated for National Library Week in the spring of 2002, the Mayor's Book Club—Keep Austin Reading program is launched each spring to cultivate a culture of reading and discussion in Austin by bringing our diverse city together around one great book.

The Library, in conjunction with the mayor's office, launches its third annual citywide campaign to develop a community experience through reading and discussion of a shared book. From the beginning The University of Texas Humanities Institute has partnered with the City of Austin and is assisting with discussion groups at local libraries about All the Pretty Horses. A schedule of programs and events is available.

The book selected by the mayor for the "Keep Austin Reading" campaign is Cormac McCarthy's, All the Pretty Horses. An award-winning novel, the book is the story of John Grady Cole, a sixteen-year-old who in 1949 finds himself the last of a generation of west-Texas ranchers. Set in the southwest, McCarthy's sixth novel is the first volume of "The Border Trilogy."

Mayor Will Wynn and the Austin Public Library invite all of Austin to read this book over the summer and then get together in the fall at area libraries, classrooms, bookstores, coffee shops and anywhere they happen to come together to discuss. The award winning book and film adaptation are available in both English and Spanish at all library locations and at area bookstores.

Note: The movie All the Pretty Horses, a Miramax picture, released in 2000.

Visit our previous Mayor's Book Club resource guides online:
Spring 2002: Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Spring 2003: Holes by Louis Sachar

To view what other cities across the country are reading visit The Center for the Book.