Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries

This is a day long anticipated [for those who anticipate such things]. You are no longer bound to rate books on Goodreads in whole numbers. Go forth and fractionally star.
Spread the word.
— BookRiot, October 7, 2026

The winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on October 8. Who will it be?
Can Xue – 10/1
Haruki Murakami – 14/1
Gerald Murnane – 16/1
Thomas Pynchon – 16/1
Cristina Rivera Garza – 20/1
Enrique Vila-Matas – 20/1
Lidia Jorge – 20/1
Ludmila Ulitskaja – 20/1
Margaret Atwood – 20/1
Michel Houellebecq – 20/1
Karl Ove Knausgaard – 22/1
Alain Mabanckou – 25/1
Alexis Wright – 25/1
Ali Ahmad Said Esber – 25/1
Carl Frode Tiller – 25/1
Christian Kracht – 25/1
Colm Tóibín – 25/1
César Aira – 25/1
Deborah Levy – 25/1
Diamela Eltit – 25/1
Don DeLillo – 25/1
Emmanuel Carrere – 25/1
Ersi Sotiropoulos – 25/1
Ibrahim al-Koni – 25/1
Leila Aboulela – 25/1
Mia Couto – 25/1
Michael Ondaatje – 25/1
Mircea Cărtărescu – 25/1
Norbert Gstrein – 25/1
Pierre Michon – 25/1
Salim Barakat – 25/1
Salman Rushdie – 25/1
Scholastique Mukasonga – 25/1
Sebastian Barry – 25/1
Tahar Ben Jelloun – 25/1
Adelia Prado – 33/1
Andrey Kurkov – 33/1
Anne Carson – 33/1
Antonio Muñoz Molina – 33/1
Botho Strauss – 33/1
Bushra al-Maqtari – 33/1
Caryl Phillips – 33/1
Colson Whitehead – 33/1
Cristina Peri Rossi – 33/1
David Grossman – 33/1
Edwidge Danticat – 33/1
Garielle Lutz – 33/1
Hamid Ismailov – 33/1
Helen Garner – 33/1
Homero Aridjis – 33/1
Hélène Cixous – 33/1
Ida Vitale – 33/1
Jamaica Kincaid – 33/1
Leslie Marmon Silko – 33/1
Marie NDiaye – 33/1
Mieko Kanai – 33/1
Patrick Chamoiseau – 33/1
Rachel Cusk – 33/1
Raul Zúrita – 33/1
Robert Macfarlane – 33/1
Ryszard Krynicki – 33/1
Samar Yazbek – 33/1
William T. Vollmann – 33/1
Ananda Devi – 40/1
Duong Thu Huong – 40/1
Hwang Sok-yong – 40/1
Ivan Vladislavić – 40/1
Joy Harjo – 40/1
Joyce Carol Oates – 40/1
Linton Kwesi Johnson – 40/1
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi – 40/1
Marilynne Robinson – 40/1
Martha Nussbaum – 40/1
Nuruddin Farah – 40/1
Paulina Chiziane – 40/1
Vladimir Sorokin – 40/1
Yan Lianke – 40/1
Ali Smith – 50/1
Amitav Ghosh – 50/1
Boubacar Boris Diop – 50/1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 50/1
Claudio Magris – 50/1
David Peace – 50/1
Ko Un – 50/1
Louise Erdrich – 50/1
Murray Bail – 50/1
Patricia Grace – 50/1
Stephen King – 50/1
Xiaolu Guo – 50/1
Yoko Tawada – 50/1
Yu Hua – 50/1
J.K. Rowling – 50/1
— Emily Temple, “Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature,” Literary Hub, September 29, 2026

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
To ALL of YOU who came out in support of OUR LIBRARIES.
To ALL of you who donated.
To ALL of YOU who volunteered.
To ALL of the staff at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building who are such wonderful hosts.
To ALL of the staff at Santa Rosa Central Branch Library who put up with our BIG FALL SALE chaos.

Thank you for another incredibly successful BIG FALL SALE.

Maybe you’ve tuned in to one of those radio or TV fund-raising programs, telethons, that sort of thing, during which the hosts announce per-hour goals. We here at Friends fb and our fearless leaders haven’t gone in for that sort of thermometer-on-the-wall or yardstick kind of measurement, content with whatever comes in at each sale event. Sooo, over the years, no thermometer, no yardstick, just the occasional dream.
We’ve gone from helping to fund materials and programs at one branch back in 1964 to, now, 62 years later, five branches (Central, Northwest, Rincon Valley, Roseland, Sonoma County History and Genealogy), and, really, most every dollar we raise goes to something accessible, particularly in the way of library materials, from every branch county-wide.
We’re on the cusp of one of those dreams. Every $5 bag of books you purchase at the BIG FALL SALE today, every Friends tote bag you buy, inches us closer to blowing the top off that imaginary thermometer. Maybe, maybe, fill one more bag today?

It’s Bag End Day when we and Bilbo empty the cupboards for you.
Bring your standard-size grocery bag and fill it up with books and/or dvds, Andor, and/or cds and/or whatsoever is still on the sale tables. Just $5 a bag.
Cue the timpani, 76 trombones, and a big bassoon.
It’s the BIG FINISH of the BIG FALL SALE.
Bag Day - $5/bag
2 pm - 6 pm
Santa Ross Veterans Memorial Building
Still Free Parking

Make it the best Halloween ever!
Friends’ Tote Bags make excellent “Trick or Treat” bags.
Come out to the BIG FALL SALE tomorrow. It will, curiously, be Bag Day.

Not to crow, but we’re here at the Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries BIG FALL SALE at the Veterans Memorial Building raising money for the Library. Half-Price Day. Until 4 pm.
Won’t you join us?

Was $29.00 ($38.00 Canadian). Today, just $1.00 at the BIG FALL SALE.

Hot deals inside the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. Half-Price Day at the Friends’ BIG FALL SALE. But cooler, too, inside, where you can browse and buy from 10 until 4. Today. Sunday, October 5, 2026.

Double the pleasure
Double the fun

Make it an all day adventure