NYPL Top Picks January 2020

Get daily book recommendations in your inbox, read the works that inspired Golden Globes nominees, and learn why the New Year's Eve ball drops in Times Square [View in browser]( [Forward]( [Donate]( [The New York Public Library Top Picks Newsletter] [NYPL's Book of the Day Daily Alerts]( Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Goals with Book of the Day Have reading goals for the new year? Get some inspiration for titles to add to your reading list with our new Book of the Day e-newsletter, and get a daily book recommendation delivered to your inbox each morning. [SIGN UP]( Reading --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reading the 2020 Awards Season: Golden Globes Edition]( Reading the 2020 Awards Season: Golden Globes Edition The Golden Globes Awards are airing soon, and many of the films and shows nominated this year have literary ties, ranging from a book first published in 1868, to popular bestsellers, to longform articles. Dive deeper into the books that inspired this year's nominees before the winners are announced. [EXPLORE]( Staff Picks [Book: Meet Yasmin]( Meet Yasmin Saadia Faruqi [Book: The Babysitters Coven]( The Babysitters Coven Kate Williams [Book: Well Met]( Well Met Jen DeLuca [MORE STAFF PICKS]( Events --------------------------------------------------------------- [Schomburg Center's 8th Annual Black Comic Book Festival]( Schomburg Center Black Comic Book Festival Friday & Saturday, January 17–18 | 10 AM–8 PM Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [ATTEND]( Between the Lines: Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor Tuesday, January 7 | 6:30 PM Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [ATTEND]( 75 Years of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division: A Symposium of Moving History Friday, January 24 | 10 AM–6 PM Library for the Performing Arts [ATTEND]( Run Me to Earth: Paul Yoon Wednesday, January 29 | 6:30 PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Building [ATTEND]( Nataly Kogan: Elevated Leadership Thursday, January 23 | 6 PM Science, Industry and Business Library [ATTEND]( Get Events Happening at Your Location Delivered to Your Inbox It's now easier than ever to find out about events happening at the Library locations you visit most. Sign up now, and every other week you'll get a personalized list of the exciting events and programs happening at your preferred locations. [GET EVENTS FOR ADULTS]( [GET EVENTS FOR KIDS]( Exhibitions --------------------------------------------------------------- [J.D. Salinger exhibition]( J.D. Salinger Through January 19 Stephen A. Schwarzman Building [LEARN MORE]( Archive in Motion: 75 Years of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Through January 25 Library for the Performing Arts [LEARN MORE]( Subversion & the Art of Slavery Abolition Opens January 8 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [LEARN MORE]( Made at NYPL Through July 3 Stephen A. Schwarzman Building [LEARN MORE]( [Support the Library]( Noteworthy --------------------------------------------------------------- [The New Year's Vow Everyone Should Make]( The New Year's Vow Everyone Should Make NYPL President Tony Marx challenges New Yorkers to read for 20 minutes each day of 2020 in The New York Post. [LEARN MORE]( Exercise Your Mind at the Library Start a new chapter with NYPL in 2020 with our no-sweat resolution: drop and give us 20...minutes of reading every day. Your brain will thank you. [LEARN MORE]( Why the First Ball Was Dropped in Times Square Thanks to a time-honored tradition involving a lowered ball, New Year's Eve has morphed into a spectacle that attracts one million revelers to Times Square each year. Learn more about the history behind the famous countdown that ushered in 2020. [LEARN MORE]( These Are the Star Wars Books You've Been Looking For After you see The Rise of Skywalker, continue your Star Wars adventures with a galaxy of books and movies from the Library. [EXPLORE]( Top Checkouts of 2019 Our patrons did a lot of reading in 2019! Find out what books were checked out the most across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island—including the top checkout at branches across the system. [EXPLORE]( Calling All Jellicles: Book Recs for T.S. Eliot's Cats Planning to see the Cats movie, or are you a fan of the musical? Before you deck yourself out in full Jellicle Ball splendor, check out these reading recommendations for some of the characters. [LEARN MORE]( A Reader's Dozen: 12 Book Bundles to Expand Your Reading Looking for the perfect complementary read for some of your favorite books? This list of titles features popular subgenres or tropes, and gives some recommendations for books that you may want to pick up on your next visit to the Library. [LEARN MORE]( NY StartUP! 2020 Business Plan Competition: Orientations Each year, NYPL holds the StartUP! Business Plan Competition for New York-based startup entrepreneurs, managed by the Science, Industry and Business Library. Entrants can win $15,000 to start their business, as well as gain practical insights about starting and growing a business while using the comprehensive small business resources at NYPL. [LEARN MORE]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Follow the New York Public Library on Facebook]( [Follow the New York Public Library on Twitter]( [Follow the New York Public Library on Instagram]( [Follow the New York Public Library Podcast]( Sponsors J.D. Salinger is presented in collaboration with the J.D. Salinger Literary Trust. Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, Jonathan Altman, and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach. Archive in Motion is made possible by the generous support of Charles and Deborah Adelman, Maria-Cristina Anzola and John G. Heimann, Edward Brill and Michele Levin, Richard Curtis and Leslie Tonner Curtis, Richard Dow and Maggie Flanigan, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Pat and Alex Gabay, Perry and Marty Granoff, Allen Greenberg, Judith M. Hoffman, Barbara Horgan, Caroline Howard Hyman, Judith A. Kinberg, Nancy N. Lassalle, Elizabeth D. Lorenzo, Brian Meehan, Morgan Stanley, Marie Nugent-Head, Patty Pei and James Chang, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Inc., Magda Saleh, Mary Lou Sax, Robert A. Schulman, Michael and Susanna Steinberg, Michael E. Stern, and an anonymous donor. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Additional support for exhibitions has been provided by Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg and the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation. The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library. The Center's mission is to generate and disseminate scholarly knowledge on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery pertaining to the Atlantic World. The Center also supports the work of researchers with long-term and short-term fellowships. Schomburg Center programs and exhibitions are supported in part by the City of New York; the State of New York; the New York City Council Black, Latino and Asian Caucus; the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; the Rockefeller Foundation Endowment for the Performing Arts; and the Annie E. and Sarah L. Delany Charitable Trusts. NY StartUP! is made possible by the generous support of Bank OZK. [Bank OZK logo] --------------------------------------------------------------- Programs are subject to change or cancellation. For up-to-date information, [visit our events page](. [Donate]( | [Get A Library Card]( | [Update Your Profile]( | [1-Click Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Your Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact Us]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} by The New York Public Library | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street | New York, NY 10018