WESTPORT – Looking for a good read to cozy up with this holiday season? The Westport Library has a suggestion for you.

The library has announced All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall as its WestportREADS selection for 2026. Copies of the book are now available at the library, along with e-book and audiobook formats, and programming related to the novel will take place in January and February.

All the Water in the World follows a young girl named Nonie and her family, who have created a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History in a nearly deserted New York City after widespread flooding caused by melting glaciers. When a superstorm pierces the city’s flood walls, the family is forced to flee and encounters other communities who have reacted to the climate disaster in vastly different ways.

“Eiren Caffall created a fully imaginable world within a horrific new future that wasn’t all doom and gloom within a flooded city,” said Jennifer Keller, one of the members of the WestportREADS 2026 selection committee. “All the Water in the World explores family and climate change in a rich coming-of-age story that we can all relate to in some way.”

Caffall is a writer and musician who has written extensively on loss, nature, oceans, and extinction. She received a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2023 for her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary.

WestportREADS was established in 2002 to give the community a shared reading experience, giving people a chance to bond over literature that “challenges, inspires, and stays with us.” The program has brought renowned authors to the library for stimulating discussions that have attracted large audiences.

Events associated with WestportREADS 2026 will include a Book Pub at Walrus Alley, film screenings, and multiple discussion groups and other opportunities for people to meet and discuss the novel. A special talk on Feb. 12th will feature James O’Donnell, director of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, to discuss practical changes that people can make to offset the impact of climate change on Connecticut. The program will culminate on Feb. 19th with a keynote address from Caffall, moderated by Catherine Shen of CT Public’s Where We Live.

For more information on WestportREADS 2026, click here.