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.
One Book, One Chicago Selections
- 2014-15: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- 2013-14: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Fall 2012: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Spring 2012: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
- Fall 2011, 10th Anniversary Selection: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Spring 2011: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Fall 2010: A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Spring 2010: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
- Fall 2009: The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City by Carl Smith
- Spring 2009: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Fall 2008: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- Spring 2008: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- Fall 2007: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Spring 2007: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Fall 2006: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Spring 2006: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Fall 2005: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Spring 2005: The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tillburg Clark
- Fall 2004: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Spring 2004: The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
- Fall 2003: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Spring 2003: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Fall 2002: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
- Spring 2002: Night by Elie Wiesel
- Fall 2001: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
