Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

About "One Book One Community"

“One Book, One Community” is a program designed to get everyone in the community reading the same book and discussing topics raised in the book. “The idea is that the city that opens the same book closes it in greater harmony.” (Mary McGrory, The Washington Post , March 17, 2002) The program began in 1998 by the Washington Center for the Book in Seattle, Washington. Since then communities all over the nation have been joining in with their own programs. The Park City Library read Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake in 2005, Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven in 2004 and Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees in 2003 for its first “One Book” program.

More "One Book" programs per Center for the Book