Past OCOB Selections
Past One Community, One Book Selections
2023
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
2022
An American Summer: Love & Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
2021
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Incarceration by Dr. Rueben Jonathan Miller
2020
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
2019
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
2018
Reading With Patrick: A Teacher a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
2017
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson
2016
Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2014
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
2013
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
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2012
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
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2011
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
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2010
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
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2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
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2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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2007
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson
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2006
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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2005
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
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2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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2003
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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2002
First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
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2001
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
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