Register now for the 2020 Library of Congress National Book Festival running Sept. 25-27. The festival will connect audiences across the country during these challenging times with an interactive celebration of “American Ingenuity” online and on television.

During the weekend of Sept. 25-27, virtual stages at loc.gov/bookfest will offer on-demand videos, live author chats and discussions, options to personalize your own festival journey with timely topics, and book buying possibilities through the festival’s official bookseller, Politics & Prose. The following stages will accommodate the more than 120 authors, poets and illustrators participating in this year’s festival:

• History & Biography
• Science
• Family, Food & Field
• Understanding Our World
• Poetry & Prose
• Children
• Teens                                     
• Fiction                                    
• Genre Fiction             

Following a weekend of virtual festivities, audiences can tune-in to a PBS television special featuring some of the nation’s most renowned authors and literary voices. PBS stations will broadcast “The Library of Congress National Book Festival: Celebrating American Ingenuity,” hosted by Hoda Kotb on Sunday, Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings). The broadcast will also be available for on-demand streaming online and through the PBS app.

• Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead receiving the Library’s Prize for American Fiction and discussing his lifelong career in writing.
• Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s memoir, “Hell and Other Destinations.”
• National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds on his book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,” which he wrote with Ibram X. Kendi.
• John Grisham on his latest books “Camino Winds” and “The Guardians.”
• “TODAY” show co-host Jenna Bush Hager on “Everything Beautiful in Its Time,” a collection of stories about her grandparents. 
• Chelsea Clinton on her new book for young readers, “She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game.”
• Melinda Gates on “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.”

Attendees are invited to take a deeper dive through Timely Topic Threads, which will offer festivalgoers a more profound appreciation of the featured subjects. They are:

• “Fearless Women” – books by and about strong women and trailblazers.
• “Hearing Black Voices” – books that showcase Black voices across all genres, affirming their contributions to American culture.
• “Democracy in the 21^st Century” – books that assess the state of democratic principles in America and around the globe.

Social Media: Follow the festival on Twitter @libraryofcongress, share with hashtag #NatBookFest, and subscribe to the National Book Festival blog at loc.gov/bookfest.