Reading Program Relaunches
Humanities Montana is partnering with libraries statewide to relaunch One Book Montana, a statewide read spotlighting the 2025 Great Reads from Great Places authors. The statewide read will run from Oct. 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027.
The One Book Montana program invites all Montanans to read The Way Around by Nicholas Triolo. Youth are invited to participate by reading Galloping Away by Robin Kolb..
The Great Reads from Great Places: Roadmap to Reading is a program of the Library of Congress and is administered through the Affiliate Centers for the Book in each state and jurisdiction. Humanities Montana is home to the Montana Center for the Book.
Nicholas Triolo’s The Way Around is a memoir that explores place, belonging, and the search for meaning beyond achievement. Through pilgrimages around sacred and significant landscapes — including Tibet’s Mount Kailash, California’s Mount Tamalpais, and Montana’s Berkeley Pit — Triolo reflects on community, memory, and what it means to find home. Blending personal narrative with cultural history, The Way Around offers a thoughtful meditation on connection, purpose, and the landscapes that shape us.
For the youth selection, Galloping Away by Robin Kolb, is a heartwarming contemporary horse story about families, animals, and resilience. Alex learns to never give up as she works toward her dream of competing on a horse of her own. She also realizes what love and hope look like — and it’s not always what she thought. Winner of the Readers Favorite 5 Star Review and the ABC Book Award Honorable Mention.
Previous titles in the One Book Montana program include the Surrounded, by Ann McNickle.
Selected Poems by Victor Hugo, Becoming Littleshell by Chris La Tray, This House of Sky by Ivan Doig and other titles.
Previous youth titles include Cinderyeti by Precious McKenzie, Eraagon by Christopher Paolini,
Evelyn Cameron, Photographer of the Western Prairie by Lorna Milne, Rescue by Josh McGuire and When the Wolves Returned by Dan Hartman and Cassie Hartman.
Humanities Montana is a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of 56 independent councils across the United States. For more information, visit humanitiesmontana.org.
