"One Book" Reading Promotion Projects
Selected List by Author
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Authors Beginning with "A"
Frank Abagnale & Stan Redding
“Catch Me If You Can”
Indianapolis (Indiana) 2005-06
Shirley Abbott
“Bookmaker's Daughter”
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2006
Peter Abrahams
“Dog On It”
Norwell (Massachusetts) 2010
Diana Abu-Jaber
“Crescent”
McMinnville (Oregon) 2008
Chinua Achebe
“Things Fall Apart”
Ithaca/Tompkins County (New York) 2005
Princeton (New Jersey) 2008
Diane Ackerman
“Zookeeper's Wife”
San Diego (California) 2009
Sheila Kay Adams
“My Old True Love”
Pittsboro (North Carolina) 2006
James Agee
“Death in the Family”
Knox County, Knoxville, Farragut (Tennessee) 2003
Oak Ridge (Tennessee) 2005
Mitch Albom
“Five People You Meet In Heaven”
Pico Rivera (California) 2004
Grand County (Colorado) 2004
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2006
Henderson (Nevada) 2007 (Oct., Nov.)
Farmingdale (New York) 2005
Sumner (Washington) 2005
“Tuesdays with Morrie”
Long Beach (California) 2002 April 29-May 5
Middletown (Connecticut) 2004
Broward County (Florida) 2004
Princeton (Illinois) 2003
Brownsburg (Indiana) 2005
Connersville (Indiana) 2003
Jay County (Indiana) 2004 Feb.- Apr.
Madison (Indiana) 2004
Shelby County (Indiana) 2004
Valparaiso (Indiana) 2004 April
Vincennes (Indiana) 2003
Quincy (Massachusetts) 2004
Springfield (Massachusetts) 2007
Duluth (Minnesota) 2003
Virginia (Minnesota) 2003
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2004
Roswell (New Mexico) 2004
Clayton (Ohio) 2004
Findlay-Hancock County (Ohio) 2003
Lancaster and York Counties (Pennsylvania) 2003
Fayette County (Georgia) 2008
Bess Streeter Aldrich
“Lantern in Her Hand”
* State-wide program (Nebraska) 2009
Lloyd Alexander
“How the Cat Swallowed Thunder”
* State-wide program (New Jersey) 2004
“Arkadians”
Westwood (Massachusetts) 2004 (children) -
William Alexander
“$64 Tomato”
Central Valley (New York) 2008
Robert Alexander (R. D. Zimmerman)
“Kitchen Boy”
Mahtomedi (Minnesota) 2004
Sherman Alexie
“Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”
Rome/Floyd County (Georgia) 2008
College Station + Bryan (Texas) 2009
Isabel Allende
“Daughter of Fortune”
Marin (California) 2007
San Mateo County (California) 2007
“Zorro”
Santa Clarita (California) 2006
Colorado Springs (Colorado) 2007
Nashua (New Hampshire) 2007
Sierra Madre (California) 2010
“[The works of]”
Seattle (Washington) 2004
Isabelle Allende
“Zorro”
Sonoma County (California) 2006
Jay Allison & Dan Gediman with John Gregory, Viki Merrick (editors)
“This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women”
Falmouth (Massachusetts) 2008
Steve Almond
“Candyfreak”
Wilbraham (Massachusetts) 2007
Julia Alvarez
“How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
San Bernardino (California) 2007
Ingham County (Michigan) 2003
Long Island (New York) 2003
Tacoma (Washington) 2004
Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2008
“In the Time of Butterflies”
Highland Park (Illinois) 2009 (Spring)
“In the Time of the Butterflies”
Chicago (Illinois) 2004 (Fall)
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2005
Park City (Utah) 2006
Rudolfo Anaya
“Bless Me, Ultima”
Yuma (Arizona) 2003
Mesa County (Colorado) 2004
Albuquerque (New Mexico) 2005 (fall) -
New Paltz (New York) 2007 (TBR)
Austin (Texas) 2002
Corpus Christi (Texas) 2007 (TBR)
Houston (Texas) 2007
Arlington (Virginia) 2007 (TBR)
Racine (Wisconsin) 2001
Laurie Halse Anderson
“Fever 1793”
Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2004 (young readers) -
“Speak”
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2005
New York City (New York) 2005
Appleton (Wisconsin) 2005
Andy Andrews
“Noticer”
Fairhope (Alabama) 2009
Maya Angelou
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Rome/Floyd County (Georgia) 2007
Kankakee County (Illinois) 2005
Forsyth County (North Carolina) 2004
Tamim Ansary
“West Kabul, East of New York”
Waco (Texas) 2004
“West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story”
San Francisco (California) 2008
Gustavo Arellano
“Orange County: A Personal History”
Fullerton (California) 2011
John Armistead
“Return of Gabriel”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2006 (spring) -
Jennifer Armstrong
“Shipwrecked At the Bottom of the World”
Hanson (Massachusetts) 2004
“Spirit of Endurance”
Williamstown (Massachusetts) 2005 Feb. (kids) -
Lance Armstrong
“It's Not About the Bike”
Bakersfield (California) 2004 (adults) -
Nick Arvin
“Articles of War”
Denver (Colorado) 2007
Mawi Asgedom
“Of Beetles and Angels”
Batavia (Illinois) 2004
Evanston (Illinois) 2007-08 -
Brown County (Green Bay) (Wisconsin) 2006
Rilla Askew
“Fire in Beulah”
* State-wide program (Oklahoma) 2007
“Mercy Seat”
Bartlesville (Oklahoma) 2007
Ace Atkins
“White Shadow”
Starkville (Mississippi) 2007 (Fall)
Richard and Florence Atwater
“Mr. Popper's Penguins”
Orlando (Florida) 2007
Jane Austen
“Pride and Prejudice”
Sarasota/Manatee Counties (Florida) 2006
Chicago (Illinois) 2005 (Fall)
Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2007
Paul Auster
“Invention of Solitude”
Buffalo (New York) 2005
Paul Austin
“Something for the Pain”
Durham (North Carolina) 2009
Thomas Fox Averill
“What Kansas Means to Me”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2011
Kathryn Ayres
“Up, Down and Around”
* State-wide program (Kansas) 2010
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