Princeton Reads is a community-wide reading program that encourages everyone to read a selected book and to participate in discussions and events centered on that book.  The library's first Princeton Reads program took place in 2003 when thousands of people in the Princeton community read and discussed Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker.

The library is pleased to announce that the 2006 Princeton Reads selection is The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride.  The Color of Water is a moving and loving memoir of growing up in a large, interracial family with an African American father and a white mother.  Told in the alternating voices of James and his mother, Ruth, the book explores the intricacies of family and identity amid the challenges of growing up in a complex world.