Vote for the 2025 Sioux City Reads Book!

Join the Sioux City Public Library for Sioux City Reads, a community-based reading initiative where Sioux Cityans are involved every step of the way – from book selection to completing challenges and attending book discussions.

Now through November 30, cast your vote to help select the next Sioux City Reads title at SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads. Copies of each book are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location.

Vote for one of the following three exciting books:

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall – When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. Behind the pop culture cliches of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder.

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi – In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases and interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes – to help others avoid similar fates. 

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson – In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD’s fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. In 1979, another diary rattled the culture – the posthumous memoir of an alleged teenage Satanist, Jay’s Journal. In reality, Go Ask Alice  and Jay’s Journal came from a serial con artist who betrayed a grieving family, stole a dead boy’s memory, and lied her way to the National Book Awards. 

The chosen book will be announced in January and will serve as inspiration for events, discussions, and Beanstack challenges throughout the upcoming 2025 Sioux City Reads initiative. Visit the Library’s website, Facebook page, or sign-up for the Library’s e-newsletter at SiouxCityLibrary.org/news to stay up-to-date on the exciting upcoming events.