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# Santa Monica seeks community suggestions for 2007 Citywide Reads book
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/071506-story/
- Published: 2006-07-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:55:37.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Read any good books lately? The Santa Monica Citywide Reads Advisory Committee is inviting community input for the 2007 book selection.

The mission of Citywide Reads is to encourage a culture of reading and to promote book-centered dialogue in Santa Monica. Book selection criteria include fiction; amenable to good group discussion; broad appeal; challenging but not exclusive and available in a variety of formats, such as paperback and audio book.

In 2003, book selected was “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress,” by Dai Sijie; in 2004, “The Berlin Stories,” by Christopher Isherwood; and in 2005, Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.” The recent 2006 Citywide Reads selection was “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer.

For more information or to make a suggestion for Citywide Reads 2007, contact the Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., (310) 458-8600\. On-line suggestion forms are available at www.smpl.org/cwr. Suggestions will be accepted until Aug. 14\. Getting better all the time

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 15, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071506.pdf?ref=smdp.com)