2022 – Community Read programs resumed with T. Jefferson Parker event 1/22/2022
Each year the Friends select one book or the works of one author and encourages the community to read and discuss the selection. The culmination of the program is the annual reception featuring the appearance of the selected author.
Previous Community Read Selections
- 2023 Death on Coronado Boulevard by Caitlin Rother – 1/21 at Pala
- 2022 One Thousand Steps by T. Jefferson Parker – 1/22 at Pala Mesa Resort
- 2021 Programs suspended due to COVID
- 2020 Programs suspended due to COVID
- 2019 – Walt Longmire Series by Craig Johnson
- 2018 – Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle
- 2017 – Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- 2016 – Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar
- 2015 – Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell
- 2014 – The Mapmaker’s Daughter by Laurel Corona
- 2013 – The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz
- 2012 – Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
- 2011 – Private Life by Jane Smiley
- 2010 – The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
- 2009 – Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone
- 2008 – Run by Ann Patchett
- 2007 – My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
- 2006 – California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
- 2005 – The works of John Steinbeck
- 2004 – Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland