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One Book, One Chicago Selections

One Book, One Chicago launched in fall 2001 as an opportunity to engage and enlighten our residents and to foster a sense of community through reading. After more than a decade of celebrating a culture of reading with two book selections annually and related month long programming, in 2013 One Book, One Chicago began an exciting expansion. CPL and its community partners now offer a season of learning and engagement focusing not just on one book but on one theme integral to the lives of all Chicagoans with expanded programming, from fall through the following spring.This list, beginning with the most recent selection, includes all the One Book, One Chicago selections since this program's inception.

Chicago Public Library

34 items

  • Fall 2023
    Paperback, 2019New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. — FIC ORANGE
  • Maus

    a Survivor's Tale

    Spiegelman, Art
    Fall 2022
    Book, 2011New York : Pantheon Books, 2011. — D804.3.S66 2011
  • Fall 2021
    Paperback, 2014New York : Akashic Books, c2014. — FIC MAY
  • Fall 2020
    Paperback, 2018New York : Riverhead Books, 2018. — FICTION
  • Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
    Paperback, 2015New York : Picador/Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — QE721.2.E97K65 2015
  • I'll Take You There

    Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the Music That Shaped the Civil Rights Era

    Kot, Greg,
    Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
    Paperback, 2014New York : Scribner, 2014. — ML400.K873 2014b
  • Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
    Paperback, 2008New York : HarperPerennial, 2008, c2007. — S521.5.A67K56 2008
  • The Third Coast

    When Chicago Built the American Dream

    Dyja, Thomas
    Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
    Paperback, 2014New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014. — F548.52.D95 2014
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    Spring 2013-Spring 2014
    Paperback, 2011New York : Vintage Books, 2011. — E185.6.W685 2011
  • Fall 2012
    Paperback, 2007New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. — FIC ZUSAK
  • Spring 2012
    Paperback, 2011New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2011] — FIC LI
  • Spring 2011
    Paperback, 2003New York : Perennial, 2003. — FIC GAIMAN
  • Fall 2010
    Paperback, 2009New York : Vintage International, 2009. — FICTION
  • Spring 2010
    Paperback, 2010New York : Scribner, 2010. — FICTION
  • The Plan of Chicago

    Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

    Smith, Carl S.
    Fall 2009
    Paperback, 2006Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. — NA737.B85S65 2006
  • Spring 2009
    Paperback, 2009New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books : Random House, Inc., 2009. — FIC CISNEROS
  • Fall 2008
    Paperback, 2008New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, c1979. — TL789.8.U5W64 2008