More than 50 California librarians voted on their choice for a top One City, One Book / Citywide read. The Top 5 selections were revealed at the Top 5×5 for Adults presentation at #CLA2017. The complete list is included below with the Top 5 shown in bold. Thank you to everyone who participated in both the conference session and the voting.
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention | Matt Richtel |
Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic | Sam Quinones |
Emergence: Labeled Autistic | Temple Grandin |
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm | David Mas Masumoto |
Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng |
Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
Flygirl | Sherri L. Smith |
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces | Isabel Quintero |
Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin Manuel |
Her Right Foot | Dave Eggers |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
Into the Beautiful North | Luis Alberto Urrea |
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
Lucky Boy | Shanthi Sekaran |
March | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell |
Marcus in the Real World | Francisco Stork |
Monstress | Lysley Tenorio |
News of the World | Paulette Jiles |
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music | Steve Lopez |
Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Sylvia & Aki | Winifred Conkling |
The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein |
The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama |
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story | Luis Alberto Urrea |
The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
The Imitation of Christ | Kempis, Thomas |
The Martian | Andy Weir |
The Sympathizer | Viet Nguyen |
The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
What It Is Like To Go To War | Karl Marlantes |
Wonder | R. J. Palacio |
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption In An American Prison | Shaka Senghor |