Each winter, the public submits suggestions for next year’s One Read book. In January, a panel of community members reviews the suggestions, narrowing that list down to 10 titles, and then chooses two or three books to present for a public vote.
Final 10 Selections
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
David Grann
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
News of the World (Runner-up)
Paulette Jiles
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Unsettlers
Mark Sundeen
The Wanderers
Meg Howrey
Other Suggested Titles
1984
George Orwell
And Again
Jessica Chiarella
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Remarque
All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Steifvater
All the Gallent Men
Donald Stratton
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngoizi Adichie
America’s Bitter Pill
Steven Brill
Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Gary Younge
Arcadia
Lauren Groff
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Ibtisam Barakat
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
Beartown
Fredrik Backman
Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want
Bryan Welch
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bible
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s
Victoria Pope Hubbell
The Book of Joan
Lidia Yuknavitvh
The Book of Jonas
Stephen Dau
Book of Unknown Americans
Christina Enriquez
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Sam Kean
The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty
Chasing the Dragon
Sam Westhoek
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Confessions of a Sociopath
M.E. Thomas
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
The Day the World Came to Town
Jim DeFede
Delicious Foods
James Hannaham
Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban
Maria Toorpakai
Dog Run Moon
Callan Wink
The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Elizabeth Letts
The End of Alzheimer’s
Dale Bredesen
Enemy Women
Paulette Jiles
Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
Joyce Scott
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Exit West
Moshin Hamid
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer and More Efficient Tax System
T.R. Reid
Flood
Melissa Scholes Young
The Future is History
Masha Gessen
The Gardender
S.A. Bodeen
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
George
Alex Gino
Ginny Moon
Benjamin Ludwig
A Girl from Yamhill
Beverly Cleary
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Gloryland
Shelton Johnson
A Good American
Alex George
Grant
Ron Chernow
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Home Grown Stories and Home Grown Fried Lies
Mitch Jayne
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Hotel Strange
Katherine Ferrier
How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Louise Penny
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
Angela Saini
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Keeper of the Lost Cities: Everblaze
Sharon Messenger
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Michael Hudson
The Kite Runner
Khalid Hosseini
The Lake House
Kate Morton
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Dominic Smith
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Maps Are Lines We Draw
Allison Caffelt
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Ming
Jaime Lowe
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Martha Achmann
The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff
Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Robert Edsel
Moonglow
Michael Chabon
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perotta
Mudbound
Hillary Jordan
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
Pamela Paul
My Own Two Feet
Beverly Cleary
Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Wendell Potter
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century
Jessica Bruder
Nordie’s at Noon
Patti Balwanz
The Obsession
Nora Roberts
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck
The Orphan Master’s Son
Adam Johnson
Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis
The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyon
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Terry Ryan
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Stephanie Nolen
Queen of Sheba: The Half Has Never Been Told
Mattie Hon
The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield
Kris Paronto
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
Richard Halliburton’s Complete Book of Marvels
Richard Halliburton
Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches for Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Sarah Glidden
Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosney
The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Andrew O’Hagan
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Siracusa
Delia Ephron
Skinny
Donna Cooner
Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War
Steve Wiegenstein
Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
Sourdough
Robin Sloan
The Spy: A Novel of Mata Hari
Paul Coelho
The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain and the Rise of American Imperialism
Mark Zwonitzer
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Sully: The Untold Story Behind the Miracle on the Hudson
Chesley Sullenberger
Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
David J. Helfand
The System
Angela Weeks
Tasting the Sky, A Palestinian Childhood
Ibtisam Barakat
Telex From Cuba
Rachel Kushner
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
Kathleen Finneran
The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien
This Fight is Our Fight
Elizabeth Warren
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
To Be a Slave
Julius Lester
Too Close to the Falls
Catherine Gildiner
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
Underground Airlines
Ben Winters
The War That Saved My Life
Brubaker Kimberly Bradley
We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride
We The People
Juan Williams
West With the Night
Beryl Markham
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka
Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family’s Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption
Vinh Chung
Wishtree
Katherine Applegate
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Wonder
Raquel J. Palacio
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steve Johnson
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Sherman Alexie