One Book
One Book Chelmsford is a community-wide reading program encouraging all residents to read a selected title and attend programming related to the book. The title is selected each Fall and the Library provides free copies to share. Related programs typically start early in the calendar year and often include a visit from the author. The library has been offering this program since 2007.
One Book 2022: YOU DECIDE!
For 2022, we’re asking for you to help us decide what to read! We have picked four books that have been popular, are well-written, tell great stories and lend themselves well to issue-oriented discussion and programming.
Read through the descriptions of the four here, and then cast your vote anytime through the month of October, either in the library or online, to help us decide!
Your Choices:
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
- There, There, by Tommy Orange
- Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
- Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy
Read more about the selections, here.
This year, the One Book programs are funded by:
Past One Book Selections
- 2021: How to Be a Good Creature, by Sy Montgomery
- 2020: Kitchen Yarns, by Ann Hood and Relish by Lucy Knisley
- 2019: Counting Descent, by Clint Smith, and The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- 2018: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – watch the video from the event
- 2017: Stronger, by Jeff Bauman
- 2016 “Keeping Chelmsford in Suspense!”: The Columbus affair by Steve Berry, The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan, and There was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
- 2015: The Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian
- 2014: The Art Forger, by B. A. Shapiro
- 2013: Townie, by Andre Dubus III
- 2012: March, by Geraldine Brooks, and Confederates in the Attic, by Tony Horwitz
- 2011: Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- 2010: Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
- 2009: Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
- 2008: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- 2007: Empire Falls, by Richard Russo