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
A Children’s Bible
Lydia Millet
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
Furious Hours (Winner)
Casey Cep
The Great Pretender
Susannah Cahalan
Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
On Immunity
Elua Biss
The Resisters (Runner-up)
Gish Jen
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
The Warehouse
Rob Hart
Other Suggested Titles
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
Susannah Stapleton
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Bryn Greenwood
America for Beginners
Franqui Leah
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
American War
Omar El Akkad
Americana
Bhu Srinivasan
Anger is a Gift
Mark Oshiro
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver
Apeirogon
Colum McCann
April 4, 1968
Michael Dyson
Assassin of Youth
Alexandra Chasin
Balcony on the Moon
Ibtisam Barakat
Beartown
Fredrik Backman
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan
Black and White Justice in Little Dixie
Doug Hunt
Black No More
George Schuyler
Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke
The Book of Gutsy Women
Hillary Clinton
The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate
The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Book Women of Troublesome Creek
Kim Richardson
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Boy’s Life
Robert McCammon
The Broken Heart of America
Walter Johnson
The Cactus League
Emily Nemens
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Thomas Sowell
The Choice
Edith Eger
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
The Day the World Came to Town
Jim DeFede
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
The Dearly Beloved
Cara Wall
Debrahmanising History
Braj Ranjan Mani
The Deepest South of All
Richard Grant
Democracy in One Book or Less
David Litt
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
Dream Big
Bob Goff
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
The Edge of Anarchy
Jack Kelly
Educated
Tara Westover
Elizabeth is Missing
Emma Healey
Enemy Women
Paulette Jiles
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Jaswal
Everywhere You Don’t Belong
Gabriel Bump
Fast Girls
Elise Hooper
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
Sarah Wilson
Five Days Gone
Laura Cumming
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
James Bradley
The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies
The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys
Frances and Bernard
Carlene Bauer
A Girl From Yamhill
Beverly Cleary
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
God-Incidences: In Boone County
John Gillman
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
The Growing Season
Sarah Frey
The Guardians
John Grisham
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Hero Dogs
Wilma Melville
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Holy Bible
Home
Marilynne Robinson
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Honeysuckle Season
Mary Taylor
Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
The House in the Cerulean Sea
T.J. Klune
How Much of These Hills is Gold
C Pam Zhang
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram Kendi
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika Sánchez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
If Then
Jill Lepore
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Illuminae
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
Inheritance
Dani Shapiro
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
Jack
Marilynne Robinson
Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins
Joy in the Morning
Betty Smith
Juliet Takes a Breath
Gabby Rivera
Jumping from Helicopters
John Stillman and Lori Stillman
Junk
Alison Stewart
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
The Kitchen Boy
Robert Alexander
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Lakewood
Megan Giddings
The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore
The Last Train to London
Meg Clayton
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula Le Guin
Lessons from Lucy
Dave Barry
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
The Library of Legends
Janie Chang
The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History
Richard Fox
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
Machines Like Me: And People Like You
Ian McEwan
Making Rounds With Oscar
David Dosa
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Mandible
Lionel Shriver
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
The Mercury 13
Martha Ackmann
Metahuman
Deepak Chopra
Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy
Mistress of the Ritz
Melanie Benjamin
The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
Montana 1948
Larry Watson
The Monuments Men
Robert Edsel
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Emil Ferris
My Grandfather’s Son
Clarence Thomas
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Fredrick Backman
My Grandmother’s Hands
Resmaa Menakem
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
The Night Watchmen
Louise Erdrich
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
1984
George Orwell
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Normal Sucks
Jonathan Mooney
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
Nothing More Dangerous
Allen Eskens
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Once Gone
Blake Pierce
Once More We Saw Stars
Jayson Greene
109 East Palace
Jennet Conant
The Only Plane in the Sky
Garrett Graff
Open Wide the Freedom Gates
Dorothy Height
Our Non-Christian Nation
Jay Wexler
Overground Railroad
Candacy Taylor
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Paris Hours
Alex George
The Perfect Horse
Elizabeth Letts
Permission to Feel
Marc Brackett
The Plant Paradox
Steven Gundry
Playing With Matches
Brian Katcher
Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Terry Ryan
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
The Redeemed: The West Country Trilogy
Time Pears
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
John Barry
Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam
Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
A Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett
Sapiens: A Graphic History
Yuval Harari
Secondhand
Adam Minter
Segu
Maryse Condé
She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Skyward
Brandon Sanderson
Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Leif Enger
The Socrates Express
Eric Weiner
Something Beautiful Happened
Yvette Corporon
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
The Soul of America
Jon Meacham
Souls Along the Road
John Drake Robinson
The Sound of Freedom
Raymond Arsenault
Sounds Like Titanic
Jessica Hindman
A Spiral Into Marvelous Light
Michael Gryboski
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
State of Wonder
Ann Patchett
Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered
Karen Kilgariff
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Still Life
Louise Penny
Stolen
Richard Bell
Stony the Road
Henry Louis gates, Jr.
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
Matt McCarthy
The Surrender Experiment
Michael Singer
Surrender, White People!
D.L. Hughley
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria
10% Happier
Dan Harris
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
Twilight
Stephanie Meyer
Umami
Laia Jufresa
The Unbreakable Thread
Nissha Kumar
The Unchosen Road
Pamela Turner
Upstream
Mary Oliver
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Vapors
David Hill
Virgil Wander
Leif Enger
Waking Up White
Debby Irving
The Watchman’s Rattle
Rebecca Costa
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
There the Trail Ends
Angela Suttner
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
Winter of the Ice Wizard
Mary Pope Osborne
The Wolf Wants In
Laura McHugh
A Woman of Independent Means
Elizabeth Hailey
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Jason Fagone
The Yellow House
Sarah Broom