Beginning Second Sunday of January: Universal Letter Writing Week
1: Charlotte Mason Birthday (1842); JD Salinger Birthday (1919)
2: National Science Fiction Day; Isaac Asimov Birthday (1920)
3: J. R. R. Tolkien Birthday (1892)
7: Zora Neale Hurston Birthday (1903)
12: Jack London Birthday (1876)
18: National Thesaurus Day; Alan Alexander Milne Birthday (1882)
19: Edgar Allan Poe Birthday (1809)
25: Virginia Wolfe Birthday (1882)
Fourth Wednesday in January: Library Shelfie Day
First week of February: Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week
1: Langston Hughes Birthday (1902)
3: World Read Aloud Day; Gertrude Stein Birthday (1874)
4: Take Your Child to the Library Day
7: Charles Dickens Birthday (1812); Laura Ingalls Wilder Birthday (1867)
9: National Read in the Bathtub Day; Alice Walker Birthday (1944)
11: Mo Willems Birthday (1968)
12: Judy Blume Birthday (1938)
14: Library Lovers Day; International Book Giving Day
Second week of February: Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
18: Toni Morrison Birthday (1931)
20: Clean Out Your Bookcase Day
26: National Tell A Fairy Tale Day; Jewish Book Week begins
27: John Steinbeck Jr. Birthday (1902); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Birthday (1807)
National Small Press Month; Gardening, Nature, and Ecology Books Month; National March into Literacy Month; National Reading Month
First Full Week of March: Read an Ebook Week; Return Borrowed Books Week
2: Read Across America Day; Theodor Seuss Geisel Birthday (1902)
11: Douglas Adams Birthday (1952)
14: National Write Your Story Day
16: National Freedom of Information Day
19: International Read to Me Day
20: Bibliomania Day; World Storytelling Day
21: World Poetry Day
22: James Brendan Patterson Birthday (1947)
25: National Tolkien Reading Day; Kate DiCamillo Birthday (1964)
31: Emily Cook Birthday (1980)
National Poetry Month; D.E.A.R. Drop Everything And Read Month
1: Reading is Funny Day; Edible Book Day
4: National School Librarian Day
5: National Read A Roadmap Day
Second Week of April: National Library Week
Tuesday of National Library Week: National Library Workers Day
Wednesday of National Library Week: National Library Outreach Day
Thursday of National Library Week: Take Action of Libraries Day
10: Encourage a Young Writer Day
12: D.E.A.R. Drop Everything And Read Day; Beverly Cleary Birthday (1916)
13: National Scrabble Day; Celebrate Teen Literature Day
14: National Donate a Book Day
19: Poetry and the Creative Mind Day
23: National Talk Like Shakespeare Day; William Shakespeare Birthday (1564); World Book and Copyright Day
25: National Poem In Your Pocket Day (date varies year to year)
28: Terry Pratchett Birthday (1948); Harper Lee Birthday (1926); National Great Poetry Reading Day
Last Saturday in April: Independent Bookstore Day
National Get Caught Reading Month; National Family Literacy Month; Latino Books Month
Free Comic Book Day: First Saturday
2: Harry Potter Day (Anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts)
Second Week of May: Reading Is Fun Week
20: Mary Pope Osborne Birthday (1949)
25: Towel Day (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
31: National Speak in Sentences Day
3: Allen Ginsberg Birthday (1926)
4: Joseph Hill(strom King) Birthday (1972)
5: Richard Scarry Birthday (1919)
5: Richard Russell Riordan Jr. Birthday (1964)
10: Maurice Bernard Sendak Birthday (1928)
12: Anne Frank Birthday (1929)
14: Harriet Beecher Stowe Birthday (1811)
16: Bloomsday
21: Ian McEwan Birthday (1948)
22: Octavia Butler Birthday (1947)
25: George Orwell Birthday (1903); Eric Carle Birthday (1929)
9: Dean Koontz Birthday (1945)
11: E. B. White Birthday (1899)
21: Ernest Hemingway Birthday (1899)
22: Lion's Share Day
28: Helen Beatrix Potter Birthday (1866)
31: J. K. Rowling Birthday (1965)
18: Bad Poetry Day
20: H. P. Lovecraft Birthday (1890)
21: Poet's Day
30: Mary Shelley Birthday (1797)
National Library Card Signup Month; Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
6: National Read A Book Day (shouldn’t this be every day?)
8: International Literacy Day; World Ampersand Day
13: Roald Dahl Birthday (1916); National Twilighters Day
15: ”Tomie” dePaola Birthday (1934)
20: George R. R. Martin Birthday (1948)
21: Stephen King Birthday (1947)
22: Hobbit Day (Bilbo and Frodo Baggins Birthday)
25: National Comic Book Day; Sheldon Allan “Shel” Silverstein Birthday (1930)
Last Week of September: Banned Books Week
National Book Month; National Cookbook Month; Medical Librarian Month; National Reading Group Month; TeenTober
First Full Week of October: Mystery Series Week
4: Anne Rice Birthday (1941)
8: R. L. Stine Birthday (1943)
Second Week of October: National Newspaper Week
16: Dictionary Day; Oscar Wilde Birthday (1854)
17: Black Poetry Day
Third Week of October: Friends of Libraries Week
Last Friday of the month: Frankenstein Friday
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo); National Life Writing Month; Picture Book Month; National Family Literacy Month
1: National Authors Day; National Family Literacy Day
4: National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
8: “Bram” Stoker Birthday (1847)
10: Neil Gaiman Birthday (1960)
12: National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day; Neal Shusterman Birthday (1962)
13: Robert Louis Stevenson Birthday (1850)
Third Full Week: National Young Readers Week; National Book Award Week
29: Madeleine L’Engle Camp Birthday (1918)
Week Varies During November: World Nursery Rhyme Week
Read a New Book Month; Spiritual Literacy Month
1: Jan Brett Birthday (1949)
16: Jane Austen Birthday (1775)
21: Crossword Puzzle Day; National Short Story Day; Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day
24: Jolabokaflod, also known as the Christmas or Yule Book Flood (Iceland)
25: A’phabet Day or No L Day (Pun Day)