Barbershop Books, winner of the National Book Foundation's Innovations in Reading Prize, is a community-based literacy program that creates child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops and provides early literacy training to barbers. Barbershop Books helps Black boys identify as readers by connecting reading to a male-centered space and by involving Black men in boys' early reading experiences. Barbershop Books partners with school districts, library systems, city governments, and local nonprofits to expand book access and increase out-of-school time reading for Black boys and other boys of color.