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

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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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