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
Being Heumann
Judith Heumann
The Big Door Prize (Winner)
M.O. Walsh
Deacon King Kong (Runner-up)
James McBride
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
The Indigo Girl
Natasha Boyd
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Other Suggested Titles
1984
George Orwell
All In
Billie Jean King
All the Murmuring Bones
A.G. Slatter
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
American Marxism
Mark R. Levin
The American Story
David Barton
American War
Omar El Akkad
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
Assassin of Youth
Alexandra Chasin
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Baby Bomb
Stan Tatkin and Kara Hoppe
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Being the Change
Peter Kalmus
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Bessie Smith
Jackie Kay
Bet the Farm
Beth Hoffman
Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Bicycling with Butterflies
Sara Dykman
The Black Count
Tom Reiss
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Blood Communion
Anne Rice
The Book of Gutsy Women
Hillary Clinton
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate
The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Born To Fly
Kgomotso Phatsima
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Broken Heart of America
Walter Johnson
Calling Me Home
Julie Kibler
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Catwoman
Sarah J. Maas
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Thomas Sowell
Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Cold Betrayal
Annalou Mack
Contesting Conformity
Jennie C. Ikuta
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Darker Shade of Magic, A
V. E. Schwab
The Day the World Came to Town
Jim DeFede
The Day the World Stops Shopping
J. B. MacKinnon
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
The Deepest South of All
Richard Grant
Definitely Maybe
Arkady Strugatsky
Democracy in One Book Or Less
David Litt
Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell
Dodger Boy
Sarah Ellis
The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
The Edge of Anarchy
Jack Kelly
Educated
Tara Westover
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri
Fiddler’s Ghost
Mitch Jayne
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Starhawk
The Firebrand and the First Lady
Patricia Bell-Scott
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Angeline Boulley
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
Sarah Wilson
Five Days Gone
Laura Cumming
Food Is Climate
Glen Merzer
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
From Here to Eternity
Caitlin Doughty
Fuzz
Mary Roach
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
The Great Controversy
Ellen G. White
Green Chili and Other Impostors
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
The Growing Season
Sarah Frey
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Heart Language
Randy Dignan
Hench
Natalie Zina Walschots
The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi
Hero Dogs
Wilma Melville
The Hidden White House
Robert Klara
His Excellency
Joseph J. Ellis
The Hive
Melissa Scholes Young
Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram Kendi
If Then
Jill Lepore
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, An
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Infinity Courts
Akemi Dawn Bowman
Ink and Bone
Rachel Caine
Jack
Marilynne Robinson
Juliet Takes a Breath
Gabby Rivera
Juliet the Maniac
Juliet Escoria
The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara Davis
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Know What Matters
Saidi Mdala
The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
The Light of Luna Park
Addison Armstrong
The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Man I Knew
Jean Becker
The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chestnutt
The Martian
Andy Weir
Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Lori Gottlieb
Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
The Mercury 13
Martha Ackmann
Metahuman
Deepak Chopra
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy
The Moon Below
Barbara Bickmore
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Fredrik Backman
My Monticello
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
My Remarkable Journey
Katherine Johnson
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
News of the World
Paulette Jiles
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Nothing More Dangerous
Allen Eskens
Off On An Adventure
D. M. Rose
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy
Once Upon A Pandemic
Nicole Merritt
Once Upon a Wardrobe
Patti Callahan
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez
Overground Railroad
Candacy Taylor
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Pappyland
Wright Thompson
Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Paris Hours
Alex George
Peril
Bob Woodward
The Plant Paradox
Steven Gundry
Playing with Matches
Brian Katcher
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Terry Ryan
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
The Redeemed
Tim Pears
River Current
M. Lee Martin
Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
Running Out
Lucas Bessire
The Salt Line
Holly Goddard Jones
Saving Us
Katharine Hayhoe
Scattered Lights
Steve Wiegenstein
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich
The Secret History of Home Economics
Danielle Dreilinger
See No Stranger
Valarie Kaur
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Sight
David Clement-Davies
Skyward
Brandon Sanderson
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Caitlin Doughty
Snakes in the Kitchen
Carolyn Paul Branch
The Socrates Express
Eric Weiner
Sonnet Rhythm
C. T. Meginord
The Soul of America
Jon Meacham
The Sound of Freedom
Raymond Arsenault
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered
Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Superbugs
Matt McCarthy
Surrender, White People!
D. L. Hughley
Tastes Like War
Grace M. Cho
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria
There and Back
George MacDonald
This Is Ear Hustle
Nigel Poor
This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel
This Place of Promise
Gary R. Kremer
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Three Sisters
Heather Morris
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
To Rescue the Republic
Bret Baier
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
The Unbreakable Thread
Nissha Kumar
Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Vapors
David Hill
Virgil Wander
Leif Enger
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The Watchman’s Rattle
Rebecca D. Costa
The Weight of Blood
Laura McHugh
West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Aubrey Gordon
What’s Done in Darkness
Laura McHugh
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah
Woke, Inc.
Vivek Ramaswamy
The Woman’s Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Year of Decision 1846,
Bernard The DeVoto
Yellow Bird
Sierra Crane Murdoch