Adult Winter Reading Program

The Adult Winter Reading Program is an annual initiative of the Kansas City Public Library aimed at encouraging leisure reading among adults. Every year, the program advances a different theme as a means of recommending literary classics and overlooked gems to the reading public.

Kansas City is consistently ranked among the top 10 cities nationwide in terms of Library usage * – a status that should be celebrated and rewarded, which are both part of the goal of the Adult Winter Reading Program.

Reading Missouri - January 12 - March 14, 2009

The Show-Me State claims some of the most enduring voices in American Literature, not to mention some of its more provocative contemporary writers. This program complements the exhibit Painting Missouri - featuring original oil paintings representing every county in Missouri and the City of St. Louis.

(*According to the 2010 Central Connecticut State University study, "America's Most Literate Cities.")