Jeonju City Invites Citizen Recommendations for '2025 Book of the Year'

By the 10th of next month... 4 volumes selected after review

Jeonju City in Jeollabuk-do is accepting recommendations for candidate books for the ‘2025 Jeonju Book of the Year,’ which citizens will read together for one year, until the 10th of next month.

According to the city on the 17th, the ‘Jeonju Book of the Year’ is a citizen reading movement that has been selecting a representative book of Jeonju together with citizens every year since 2019 to form a reading community united by books, and conducting various related programs.

2025 Jeonju Book of the Year Candidate Book Poster. Provided by Jeonju City

In particular, the ‘2025 Jeonju Book of the Year’ is characterized by the fact that citizens participate in all processes from recommending candidate books to voting, thereby broadly reflecting diverse reading preferences and ensuring fairness in book selection.

The recommendation categories are ▲Children (Illustrations) ▲Children (Text) ▲Youth ▲General, and recommendations can be freely made by referring to the criteria such as domestic living authors whose first editions were published within the last three years. However, each person can recommend up to five books, and political, religious, commercial books, out-of-print books, and books by foreign authors are excluded.

Any Jeonju citizen can participate in the recommendation process by submitting the recommended books and reasons on the Jeonju Reading Festival website by the 10th of next month.

The city plans to review the recommended books through an internal selection committee meeting and select 12 candidate books through the Jeonju Reading Festival working planning team’s selection committee meeting. Afterwards, a two-week citizen vote will be held on the candidate books to finally select four books in four categories as the ‘2025 Jeonju Book of the Year.’ From April next year, the selected books will be used in various related programs such as ▲transcription relay ▲meetings with authors ▲family reading Golden Bell quiz.

Choi Hyun-chang, head of the Jeonju City Library Headquarters, said, “We expect that a more meaningful Jeonju Book of the Year will be selected through the process where citizens directly recommend and select books,” and added, “We ask for active interest and participation from citizens for the selection of the Book of the Year representing Jeonju City in 2025.”

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