Create your National Book Festival experience with the Library of Congress in 2021 by engaging in author conversations online, watching the broadcast special on PBS, listening to NPR podcasts, and tuning in to Washington Post Live author interviews, all for free! Join us for an expanded Festival, Sept. 17-26, a 10-day event with the theme, “Open a Book, Open the World.”

• Visit the National Book Festival website
• Subscribe to the National Book Festival blog for a daily program guide, sent to your inbox
• NOW: Stream the PBS broadcast special, “Open a Book, Open the World,” an introduction to the 2021 Festival with host and reading advocate LeVar Burton