Annual Fundraising Event

2026 Book Fair: Saturday, September 26 at Annapolis Mall

Our sixth annual fundraiser BOOK FAIR is Saturday, September 26 from 10 am until 4 pm at Annapolis Mall, inside, near Discoveries: The Library at the Mall and Crate & Barrel.

The mall kindly donates space and marketing support for this annual community event.

This year, we’ve collected more books than ever! We have thousands of books in all genres: $1 paperbacks, $2 hardbacks, $5 new & notable titles, raffle baskets, and more! Fill a Literacy Council tote bag with as many books as you can carry for $25. Restrictions apply. All proceeds benefit our FREE adult tutoring programs.

 

Don’t miss our amazing raffle baskets!

Tickets will be available next to our checkout station, where you can also browse the baskets.

Ticket buyers DON’T have to be present to purchase tickets or win!  Email us if you want tickets now. Pre-event ticket sales end at noon on Friday, September 25. Must be 21 to buy tickets for or win baskets containing alcohol.

RAFFLES & TICKETS

$2/ticket or six tickets for $10

Enter to win any of the four baskets featured below.

1. Staycation

-National Aquarium 4-pack of tickets

-Live! Casino & Hotel $300 Prime Rib restaurant gift certificate (restrictions apply)

-$25 Crooked Crab Brewing Co. gift card with merch

– $50 Pherm Brewing gift card

value: $605

2. Annapolis Wine & Dine

-1 bottle 2015 Bay Ridge Wine & Spirits Migration Pinot Noir

-1 bottle Frank Family Chardonnay

-Les Abbés vin rouge, Provence, France

-2 Great Frogs Winery tasting certificates

-Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant tasting certificate for 4

-$85 Carrol’s Creek Cafe gift card

-$25 Full On Craft Eats & Drinks Annapolis gift card

value: $365

3. Grocery-Coffee-Pizza Run

-$50 Graul’s Market gift card

-$150 Wegman’s gift card

-$25 Rise Up gift card with merch

-$100 Timber Pizza gift card

value: $385

4. David’s Natural Market Gift Basket

-amazing gourmet goodies from David’s Natural Market in Gambrills

-David’s gift card

Pre-event ticket sales end at noon on Friday, September 25.

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Thank you for supporting our book fair and adult tutoring programs.

 

Location Sponsor

Media Sponsor

Playwright Sponsor

Poet Sponsors

Reader Sponsor

Partners

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: DISCOVERIES BRANCH

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, ANNAPOLIS

EAST COAST ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES, INC.

EASTPORT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF ANNAPOLIS
BOOKS FOR INTERNATIONAL GOODWILLPIP MOYER RECREATION CENTER

In-Kind Donors

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2025 Book Fair: Our Biggest Ever

Our fifth-annual fundraiser BOOK FAIR at Annapolis Mall was a tremendous community success, with the highest turnout and support we’ve ever seen. The mall kindly donates its Community Room and Crate & Barrel Court space for this fantastic event. Discoveries: The Library at the Mall partners with the Literacy Council to provide event support and coordinating activities.

We thank all our donors, supporters, volunteers, shoppers, partners, local media promoters, and sponsors! More than 60 volunteers made the event possible, and at least 75 households, neighborhoods, and other groups donated gently used fiction and nonfiction. We sold thousands of books, raising much-needed funds for our free adult tutoring programs.

Thank you, Broadneck High School English Honor Society and National Honor Society student volunteers, for helping us haul over 280 boxes of donated books to the mall for the book fair!

Thank you, J. Lynwood Holmes, local author and owner of Old Fox Books for a delightful reading of the 2025 children’s book, Copernicus.

After the event, we donated the remaining books. They were delivered to Books for International Goodwill (BIG) in Annapolis.

 

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A Fabulous 2024 Book Fair — Thank You!

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Thank you for Supporting Local Adult Literacy at Book Fair 2023!