The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) is pleased to present a new statewide digital book club – Wisconsin Reads! Wisconsin Reads is a free digital book club that offers a Wisconsin-rooted book for readers to enjoy, share, and discuss.
The 2026 title is “Still True” by Maggie Ginsberg, winner of the 2023 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Fiction and many other awards. The book will be available in Wisconsin’s Digital Library as an ebook or digital audiobook without holds or waiting from January 15th through March 14th, 2026. Simply log in with your library card issued from a Wisconsin public library, borrow the title as an ebook or digital audiobook, and enjoy!
Maybe you love the book so much that you want to talk about it. Great! We’ve prepared a discussion guide to help with the conversation. Check your local library’s website or social media to see if they are hosting a discussion program or get your friends and family together for a good old-fashioned book club.
Want to hear about the book directly from the source, author Maggie Ginsberg? Also great! Register to attend the Wisconsin Reads interview and Q&A session with Ms. Ginsberg on Wednesday, March 4th, at 7:00 pm CT, hosted by Eric Norton from McMillan Memorial Library in Wisconsin Rapids. The event will also be recorded and shared online.
About Maggie Ginsberg
Maggie Ginsberg is a writer, editor and author in Wisconsin.
Her debut novel, Still True, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2022 and won the 2023 WLA Literary Award for Fiction. It was the honorable mention selection for the 2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award, and the 2026 inaugural pick for the statewide Wisconsin Reads digital book club. Still True was one of four finalists for the Chicago Writers Association’s 2023 Book of the Year, a 2023 Midwest Book Awards silver medal winner in the Literary/Contemporary/Historical Fiction category, and one of three finalists for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s STAR Award for Outstanding Debut.
Maggie is also a nonfiction writer who published hundreds of articles throughout her career, earning numerous honors from the City Regional Magazine Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Milwaukee Press Club, and others. She is the former managing editor at Madison Magazine, and a contributing writer for the magazine since 2006. She works full-time as a writer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently at work on her second and third novels.
About “Still True”
One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence—or previous marriage—to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives.
“A generous ode to humanity’s indefatigable longing for understanding, forgiveness, and love. Maggie Ginsberg’s words sparkle on pages filled with hopeful characters and a story you won’t soon forget.”—Ann Garvin, USA Today best-selling author of I Thought You Said This Would Work
“It’s a rare experience to feel gratitude for a book’s pleasures on nearly every page. But Maggie Ginsberg has written that book. I could stay in this story for years.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author of The Devil’s Highway and The House of Broken Angels