Recently, Book Group Buzz posted a lovely list of current One City One Book selections. I just love this idea of books bringing communities together and have posted about One City One Book before. Thank you, Book Group Buzz, for posting this updated list:
- Fox Cities Reads (WI) is reading the novels of Wisconsin author Michael Perry.
- One Book, Everybody Reads at Wilmette and Kenilworth (IL) Public Libraries is reading The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester.
One Book Two Villages at the Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District (IL) is reading The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, and Ida B. by Katherine Hannigan.
One Book, One New Jersey is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
- A Capital Read (ME) is reading Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- One Maryland One Book is reading Song Yet Sung by James McBride.
- One Book, One Nebraska is reading A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich.
One Book, One Philadelphia and On the Same Page Cincinnati are reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. This is also the selection for Once City, One Book in Thousand Oaks and One Book Sacramento (CA).- One Book One Community in Allegheny County (PA) is reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.
- One Book, One Boulder County (CO) is reading Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
- One Book Chelmsford (MA) and One Book One Lexington (KY) are reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortneson.
- One Book One Marin (CA) is reading What Is the What by Dave Eggars.
- One Book of Rutherford County (TN) is reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.
- One Book One Castle Rock (CO) is reading Plainsong by Kent Haruf.
Naperville Reads (IL) is reading Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore.
North Reading Reads (MA) is reading The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak.
Reading Together (Kalamazoo, MI) is reading All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, and The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg.
- At the Library of Congress Center for the Book web site, you can find a list of more “one book” projects, listed by state and county as well as by author/title.
I’ve read and enjoyed All Over But the Shoutin’, The Book Thief, Plainsong, What is the What, Three Cups of Tea, The Giver, and Oscar Wao… and read and not enjoyed Ava’s Man or Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. I’m on the library’s list for Racing in the Rain.
What about you? Which have you read and (not) enjoyed? Which do you think would generate the best discussion?
Personally, I think The Giver and What is the What are the best picks for conversation…
