One Book – One Lincoln
Past Finalists and Selected Titles
2009
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Color of Water by James McBride [305.8 McB]
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard [Biography Roosevelt]
2008
Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson [915.491 Mor]
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2007
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan [973.917 Ega]
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
2006
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos [Nebraska Author]
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson [364.152 Lar]
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls [B W1547]
2005
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser [917.823 Koo] [Nebraska Author]
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
2004
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz [B Sa54s] [Nebraska Author]
2003
The Weight of Dreams by Jonis Agee [Nebraska Author]
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
2002
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Plainsong by Kent Haruf [Nebraska Author]
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
Montana 1948 by Lawrence Watson
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