Community Reading Program

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

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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

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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

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean

A Gentleman in Moscow (Winner)
Amor Towles

Inheritance
Dani Shapiro

A Key to Treehouse Living
Elliot Reed

The Last Days of Night (Runner-up)
Graham Moore

The Library Book
Susan Orlean

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

There There
Tommy Orange

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

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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

“Do Not Sell at Any Price”
Amanda Petrusich

“The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of An American Life”
Lauren Markham

“The House of Broken Angels”
Luis Alberto Urrea

“Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century” (Winner)
Jessica Bruder

“Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World”
Tim Marshall

“Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”
Janet Mock

“Sing, Unburied, Sing”
Jesmyn Ward

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons From the Crematory”
Caitlin Doughty

“Sourdough, or Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market” (Runner-up)
Robin Sloan

“Warlight”
Michael Ondaatje

Other Suggested Titles

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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

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