From Burns Night to Book Flood (January to December) there are countless reasons to celebrate words, reading, stories in all forms. Always adding, editing, and revising, this list is a work in progress In a way, it is a labor of love, finding more reasons to just keep reading.
I cannot lay claim to creatingthese lists. The original list itself is from the website On the Cobblestone Road. The rest I have added from a variety of sources. See Source list at the end.
SMB Favorite Literary Dates
January
January is National Book Blitz Month
Jan 2 - National Science Fiction Day
Jan 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Jan 9 - National Word Nerd Day
Jan 11 - Poetry at Work Day (Second Tuesday of January)
Jan 18 - National Thesaurus Day
Jan 25 - Burns Supper, aka Burns Night, in honor of the poet, Robert Burns’, birthday)
February
Feb 1 - Robinson Crusoe Day
Feb 14 - International Book-Giving Day
Feb 20 - Clean Out Your Bookcase Day
Feb 26 - Tell a Fairy Tale Day
March
March Small Press Month
Mar 4 - National Grammar Day
Mar 5-11 - Return Borrowed Books Week
Mar 14 - National Write Your Story Day
Mar 16 - National Freedom of Information Day
Mar 30 - National Pencil Day
April
Apr 17 - International Haiku Poetry Day
Apr 18 - National Columnist Day
Apr 23-29 - National Library Week
Apr 30 - Independent Bookstore Day (Last Saturday of April)
May
May 2 - International Harry Potter Day (Anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts)
May 2-8 - Children’s Book Week
May 4 - May the 4th Be With You, Star Wars Day
May 9 - Peter Pan Day
May 16 - National Biographer’s Day
May 25 - Towel Day (in honor of author Douglas Adams)
June
June 1 – World Outlander Day
Jun 10 - National Ball Point Pen Day
Jun 16 - Bloomsday (in honor of writer James Joyce)
Jun 19 - National Garfield the Cat Day
Jun 23 - National Typewriter Day
July
Read an Almanac Month
July 20 – World UFO Day
July 4 - Alice in Wonderland Day
July7 - World Chocolate Day
July 12 - Malala Day
July 14 - Bastille Day
July 21 - Ernest Hemingway Birthday (1899)
July 28 - Helen Beatrix Potter Birthday (1866)
July 30 - Paperback Book Day
August
Aug 2 - National Coloring Book Day
Aug 9 - National Book Lovers Day
Aug 18 - Bad Poetry Day
Aug 21 - Poet’s Day
Aug 30 - Frankenstein Day (author Mary Shelley‘s birthday)
Aug 31 - We Love Memoirs Day
September
Sept 6 - National Read a Book Day
Sept 6 – Literacy Day UNESCO
Sept 7 - Buy a Book Day
Sept 8 - International Literacy Day |
Sept 8 - National Ampersand Day
Sept 11 - Libraries Remember Day
Sept 13 - Roald Dahl Day
Sept 18 - Read an Ebook Day
Sept 18-24 - National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week
Sept 22 - Hobbit Day |
Sept 22 - Dear Diary Day
Sept 24 - National Punctuation Day
Sept 25 - National Comic Book Day
Sept 25-30 - Banned Books Week (Last week of September)
October
Oct 1 - National Poetry Day
Oct 2-8 - National Newspaper Week (Starts on the first Sunday of October)
Oct 2-8 - Mystery Series Week (First full week of October)
Oct 6 - Mad Hatter Day
Oct 11 - Myths and Legends Day
Oct 16 - Dictionary Day, Birth of Noah Webster in 1758 in Hartford, CT, whose first dictionary, The Professor and the Madman
Oct 16-22 - Friends of Libraries Week (Third week of October)
Oct 17 - Black Poetry Day
Oct 20 - National Day on Writing
Oct 28 - Frankenstein Friday (Last Friday in October)
Oct 31 - Books for Treats Day
November
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)National Family Literacy MonthNational Life Writing MonthPicture Book Month
Nov 3 - National Nonfiction Day (First Thursday of November)
Nov 6-12 - International Games Week | Children’s Book Week
Nov 8 - Young Readers Day (Second Tuesday of November)
Nov 14-18 - National Young Readers Week | World Nursery Rhyme Week | National Book Awards Week (Third week in November)
Nov 15 - I Love to Write Day
Nov 18 - High Five a Librarian Day
Nov 20-26 - National Bible Week
Nov 21-27 - Book Week Scotland
December
Dec 7 - Letter Writing Day
Dec 10 - Dewey Decimal System Day
Dec 21 - Crossword Puzzle Day | National Short Story Day | Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day (from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne)
Dec 24 - Jolabokaflod, Iceland. Read the book you received for Christmas, Jólabókaflóðið
Dec 25 - A’phabet Day or No L Day (Pun Day — “No L” = Noel… get it?)
last revised – 07/2024 by SMB staff
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