Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - SNFL, NYPL

08/17/2026

08/13/2026

Do you need a space for your book club? Participating groups must select one title from our Book Club Sets in order to book a room. There are over 50 titles to choose from listed on the Google Form. Participants may reserve up to 15 copies of that title for a duration of up to 8 weeks.

Here's how the process works:

1. Each book club must have at least four members to submit a
booking request and maximum of 15. One member should be designated as the primary contact person.

2. Participating groups must select one title from our Book Club set in order to book a room. There are over 50 titles to choose from listed on the Google Form. Participants may reserve up to 15 copies of that title for a duration of up to 8 weeks.

3. Booking request's must be made at least EIGHT weeks in advance
from Request Date. Availability is from Monday through Saturday.

4. All books must be returned on the date of your book discussion
event at the SNFL.

5. Bookings can be made through the Google Form https://shorturl.at/o0Zwy

Some of the titles are:

"Testaments" by Margaret Atwood

"Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann

"Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese

"My Sister, the Serial Killer" by Oyinkan Braithwaite

"The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert

"Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange

Reserve your book sets and discussion room with SNFL today!

03/24/2026

Coming up | Join SNFL and the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) for a celebration of Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month, with readings by Maha Hashwi, Ghinwa Jawhari, Lawrence Joseph, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef.

To honor the rich poetic tradition of Arab American literature, poets Maha Hashwi, Ghinwa Jawhari, Lawrence Joseph, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef will read from and discuss their work. This event is hosted in partnership with RAWI, founded in 1993 as the Radius of Arab American Writers.

🗓 Tuesday, April 7
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

RSVP at tinyurl.com/snfl7storiesup ✨

03/20/2026

Coming up | join us for an evening of transformative performance and storytelling as we explore the journey from survival to advocacy after gender-based violence with Gibney Move to Move Beyond Storytellers and special guest and author Michelle Horton.

Through the combined power of dance and the written word, we will celebrate the courage of those who turn their personal experiences into a collective force for change. While the evening will address the heavy realities of domestic and gender-based violence, the spirit of the program is uplifting and transformative.

🗓 Wednesday, March 25
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

RSVP at tinyurl.com/snfl7storiesup 💜

03/17/2026

Divorced, Beheaded…Survived!?✨| This Women’s History Month, join award-winning author Rebecca Lehmann for a conversation about her debut novel The Beheading Game–an audacious, feminist take on British royal history that imagines what would happen if Anne Boleyn woke up after her ex*****on and set out on a quest for vengeance–with fellow writer Anna Solomon (The Book of V.).

A fantastical journey through the wilds of England and Tudor history, filled with danger and magic and steeped in Arthurian legend, The Beheading Game is a prescient reminder that “mouthy” women have always been punished. Now, thanks to debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann, nearly five hundred years after Anne Boleyn’s death, one of history’s most maligned women finally has the chance to tell her story.

🗓 Monday, March 30
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream
👑 Wear yours

RSVP at tinyurl.com/snfl7storiesup ✔️

03/12/2026

🍀🍀🍀 Join us next week for a conversation about early attempts at book banning and the struggle to bring James Joyce’s Ulysses to readers with authors Gayle Feldman of Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built and Adam Morgan of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature.

Together, Feldman and Morgan will explore two pivotal figures who reshaped American publishing, challenged the boundaries of literary freedom, and fought for readers’ right to read James Joyce’s Ulysses. From Bennett Cerf’s founding of Random House and his championing of bold new voices, to Margaret C. Anderson’s defiance of censorship and her groundbreaking magazine The Little Review, the discussion will illuminate how both helped define what we read and why it matters today.

🗓 Tuesday, March 17
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

RSVP at tinyurl.com/snfl7storiesup

03/11/2026

Next week | Author Terao Tetsuya joins us with Jeremy Tiang and Kevin Wang, translator of Tetsuya’s collection of linked short stories Spent Bullets, centered on an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder.

The hard-working geniuses of Spent Bullets are the crème de la crème of the meritocracy. Educated in the best schools in Taiwan, they move to lucrative positions in America’s big tech, reaching the pinnacle of career prestige. Yet there is a dark side to their relentless focus and achievements.

A searing look at our time and culture, Terao Tetsuya exposes the absurdity of striving: to make money, to be a better person, to be someone you’re not. With cool, calculating precision, he illuminates the promise and peril of gifted young people who patiently bear the burdens of their fate.

🗓 Wednesday, April 8
🕕 6 PM ET
💬 語言:以部分中文進行 | In Mandarin with interpretation
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

RSVP at tinyurl.com/snfl7storiesup