Media became a Bee City in 2022 and a Bird Town, PA in 2024, and in 2025 the Eagles won the Super Bowl and the Book Sale in support of the Media-Upper Providence Free Library celebrated its 55th Anniversary.
Books that spent time atop The New York Times Best Sellers list
| Year | Fiction | Nonfiction |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | Untamed by Glennon Doyle |
| 2021 | The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah | A Promised Land by Barack Obama |
| 2022 | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy |
| 2023 | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover | Spare by Prince Harry |
| 2024 | The Women by Kristin Hannah | Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann |
| 2025 | Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros | The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan |
Interesting items (items of local interest)
2020
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glück
- The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Colson Whitehead for The Nickel Boys
- COVID-19 entered the U.S. in January, deaths surpassed 200,000 by September
- LeBron James became the first NBA player to win MVP for three different teams
- Apple became the first US company valued at $2 trillion, doubling its’ valuation in 2 years
2021
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah
- The highest global temperature record was broken in Death Valley, USA, at 129.9°F
- Beyoncé won her 28th Grammy Award, breaking the world record for most Grammys
- Perseverance rover, NASA’s largest, most advanced rover landed on Mars
- The James Webb Space Telescope was launched
2022
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Annie Ernaux
- The world’s population reached 8 billion people for the first time
- Iowa’s Caitlin Clark became the first NCAA Division 1 player to record consecutive 30-point triple-doubles
- OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a prototype in November
- A 57-year-old man received the first transplanted heart from a genetically modified pig
2023
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jon Fosse
- The Pulitzer Prize in Biography was won by G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
- The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in the Super Bowl
- Between 2022 and 2023, pickleball participants increased 50% in the U.S.
- Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour started, and she became Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
2024
- The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Han Kang
- Taylor Swift became the first musician to become a billionaire solely based on the value of songs and concerts in 2023
- In the first NFL game in South America, the Eagles beat the Packers 34-29 in Brazil
- The Atlantic hurricane season damages were nearly $200 billion
- College tuition and fees were 1,520% higher in 2024 versus 1977
2025
- As of 2025, Stephen King has published more than 60 books
- National news was dominated in January by Southern California wildfires
- In the College Football National Championship, Ohio State defeated Notre Dame
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s funeral was held in Washington, D.C. on January 9th
- The 67th Annual Grammy Awards honored Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us with Record of the Year and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter with Album of the Year