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One
Book: Chelmsford Reads --"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
Here's the complete list of books that were nominated to be the "One Book:"
| Author | Title |
| | The Holy Bible |
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie |
| Anthony, Piers | On a pale horse |
| Arnold, Tedd | Hi Fly guy! |
| Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | Shattered Mirror |
| Atwood, Margaret | Oryx and Crake |
| Baer, Robert | See no evil |
| Baldacci, David | The Christmas Train |
| Banks, Russell | The Sweet Hereafter |
| Barnett, Thomas | The Pentagon's new map |
| Barry, Dave | Peter and the starcatchers |
| Bauby, Jean-Dominique | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| Berendt, John | Midnight in the garden of good and evil |
| Berry, Wendell | The Memory of Old Jack |
| Bloor, Edward | Tangerine |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice |
| Bohjalian, Chris | Midwives |
| Bray, Libba | A Great and Terrible Beauty |
| Bronowski, Jacob | The Ascent of Man |
| Brooks, Kevin | Lucas |
| Brown, Dan | Angels and Demons |
| Brown, Dan | Da Vinci Code |
| Brown, Dan | Deception Point |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game |
| Carr, Howie | The Brothers Bulger |
| Chbosky, Stephen | Perks of being a wallflower |
| Christie, Agatha | And then there were none |
| Clancy, Tom | Rainbow Six |
| Coleman, Penny | Flashback |
| Conlon, Edward | Blue blood |
| Cormier, Robert | I am the cheese |
| Cornish, D.M. | Monster Blood Tattoo |
| Cronin, Justin | The Summer guest |
| Crowley, Aleister | Satanic extracts |
| Crumley, James | Last good kiss |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, not Buddy |
| Davis, Maya | The Third Terrorist |
| Diamond Jared | Guns, Germs and Steel |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn Dixie |
| Dickinson, Richard | The Silent Men |
| Dowell, Frances O'Roark | Dovey Coe |
| Dubus, Andre | House of sand and fog |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Count of Monte Cristo |
| Dumas, Firoozeh | Funny in Farsi |
| Feiler, Bruce | Abraham, the journey of three faiths |
| Fine, Cordelia | A mind of its own: how your brain... |
| Fisher, Cyrus | The Avion my uncle flew |
| Flagg, Fannie | A Redbird Christmas |
| Flagg, Fannie | Can't Wait to Get to Heaven |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Extremely loud and incredibly close |
| Frank, Anne | Diary of a young girl |
| Frey, James | A million little pieces |
| Funke, Cornelia | Inkheart |
| Goodwin, Doris Keans | Wait till next year |
| Gore, Al | Inconvenient truth |
| Grandin, Temple | Animals in translation |
| Greenlaw, Linda | The Hungry Ocean |
| Greenlaw, Linda | The Lobster Chronicles |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Just Ella |
| Haddon, Mark | Curious Incident of the dog at night-time |
| Halberstam, David | The Best and the Brightest |
| Harr, Jonathan | The Lost Painting |
| Hasek, Jaroslav | The Good Soldier Svejk |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hillerman, Tony | Skinwalkers |
| Hinton, S.E. | Rumblefish |
| Hoffman, Alice | The Probable Future |
| Horowitz, Anthony | Stormbreaker |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Hughes, Dean | The Soldier Boys |
| Ibbotson, Eva | The Secret of Platform 13 |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never let me go |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Unconsoled |
| Jacques, Brian | Martin the warrior |
| Junger, Sebastian | The Perfect Storm |
| Karon, Jan | At home in Mitford |
| Kerouac, Jack | Dharma Bums |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the road |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Kidder, Tracy | Mountains beyond mountains |
| King, Dave | The ha-ha |
| King, Stephen | Cell |
| King, Stephen | The Gunslinger |
| Kinsella, W.P. | Shoeless Joe |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | The Silver Kiss |
| Knowles, John | A separate peace |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into thin air |
| Kraus, Jon | Big Ear Two: Listening for other worlds |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake |
| Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird |
| Lehane, Dennis | Mystic River |
| Lehane, Dennis | Shutter Island |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street |
| Lipman, Elinor | Inn at Lake Devine |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver |
| MacGregor, Kinley | Sword of Darkness |
| Maguire, Gregory | Wicked |
| Marshall, Meghan | The Peabody Sisters |
| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi |
| Mayor, Archer | St. Alban's Fire |
| McBride, James | The color of water |
| McCauley, Stephen | The easy way out |
| McCracken, Elizabeth | Giant's house |
| McCullough, David | John Adams |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement |
| McEwan, Ian | Saturday |
| Merullo, Roland | In Revere in those days |
| Mitchell, David | Cloud atlas |
| Mitchell, John Hanson | Looking for Mr. Gilbert |
| Moriarty, Laurie | The Center of Everything |
| Naslund, Sena Jeter | Ahab's wife or, The star -gazer |
| O'Brien, Tim | In the lake of the woods |
| Olin, Sean | Killing Britney |
| O'Reilly, Bill | Culture warrior |
| Paolini, Christopher | Eragon |
| Parker, Robert | Early Autumn |
| Parker, Robert | Wilderness |
| Paterson, Katherine | Lyddie |
| Patterson, James | When the Wind Blows |
| Peale, Norman Vincent | The Power of positive thinking |
| Pelzer, Dave | Child called It |
| Pelzer, Dave | The Lost Boy |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Mayflower |
| Picoult, Jodi | My sister's keeper |
| Pike, Christopher | The Cold One |
| Pipher, Mary | Middle of everywhere |
| Pollan, Michael | The Omnivore's Dilemma |
| Powell, Julia | Julie and Julia |
| Preston, Douglas | The Relic |
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the red fern grows |
| Robbins, Tom | Jitterbug perfume |
| Redfield, James | The Celestine Prophecy |
| Remarque, Erich | All quiet on the western front |
| Rodda, Emily | Deltora Quest: Forests of Silence |
| Rotelli, Richard | Creative Odyssey |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter… |
| Roth, Philip | The Plot against America |
| Ruiz, Miguel | The Mastery of Love |
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Esperanza rising |
| St. Exupery, Antoine de | Little Prince |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the rye |
| Sebold, Alice | Lovely Bones |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Seuss, Dr. | The Cat in the Hat |
| Seuss, Dr. | Green eggs and ham |
| Seuss, Dr. | One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish |
| Shaara, Jeff | Rise to rebellion |
| Shaara, Michael | Killer angels |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet |
| Shawver, Brian | Aftermath |
| Shreve, Anita | The weight of water |
| Smiley, Jane | A thousand acres |
| Sparks, Nicholas | A Walk to remember |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Star girl |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Steinbeck, John | The Pearl |
| Takaya, Natsuki | Fruits basket |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walking |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit |
| Tyler, Anne | Digging to America |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus |
| Weisskopf, Michael | Blood brothers |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Winton, Tim | Blueback |
| Wittlinger, Ellen | Hard Love |
| Woodward, Bob | State of denial |
| Zinn, Howard | A people's history of the United States |
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