Announcing: Great Lakes, Great Read 2026 – Library of the Great Lakes

We are excited to announce the titles chosen for this year’s Great Lakes, Great Read!

Great Lakes, Great Read is based on the One Book, One Community model where reading programs choose one book for libraries, community groups, and the public to read and enjoy together over the course of a year.

This year’s GLGR Titles are:

Picture Book

The cover of Sport, Ship Dog of the Great Lakes by Pamela Cameron. The cover features a cartoon of a black and brown dog on a doc in front of a lighthouse and large ship. — Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes by Pamela Cameron

Middle Grade

Wojahn_SavingOurSturgeon — Saving Our Sturgeon: Protecting Wisconsin’s Ancient Fish by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn

Adult

The cover for the book "The Gales of November" by John U. Bacon. Includes a color illustration of the ship the Edmund Fitzgerald in heavy waves. — The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon

Click any of the covers above to see them in our Digital Bookshelf!