List of Books Chosen for One Book, One Chicago

Mayor Richard M. Daley initiated the One Book, One Chicago program in 2001. The premise is simple and enticing: Get a city reading and talking about the same book at the same time. If it works, it will foster a reading community and encourage neighbors to discuss and enjoy great literature together.

Review a List of the 10 Books Most Recently Chosen & Why They Were Selected

Here are the books chosen to date for One Book, One Chicago.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Fall 2001)
2. Night by Elie Wiesel (Spring 2002)
3. My Ántonia by Willa Cather(Fall 2002)
4. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Spring 2003)
5. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (Fall 2003)
6. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek (Spring 2004)
7. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Fall 2004)
8. The Ox- Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Spring 2005)
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Fall 2005)
10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Spring 2006)
11. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fall 2006)
12. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Spring 2007)
13. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Fall 2007)
14. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (Spring 2008)
15. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (Fall 2008)
16. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Spring 2009)
17. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City by Carl Smith (Fall 2009)