One Community, One Book
Launched in 2001 by UICHR founders Dorothy Paul and Burns Weston, "One Community, One Book" is an annual community-wide reading project, coordinated by the UICHR, in cooperation with the UI International Writing Program, Prairie Lights Books, and a variety of other University and community groups. The project invites community residents to discuss the same human rights-related text. For a description of, and discussion questions for, each year's selection, click on the years below.
The co-coordinators of One Community, One Book are Joan Nashelsky and Pat Schnack. Please contact them with any questions.
Book Selections
2008
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
2007
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson
2006
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
2005
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2003
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2002
First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
2001
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout


