One Community, One Book

One Community, One Book 2009

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is the 2009 selection for "One Community, One Book."
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle tells the story of how Kingsolver and her family for one year deliberately ate food produced in the place where they live. Kingsolver wrote the central narrative, and her husband, Steven Hopp, wrote in-depth sidebars about various aspects of food-production science and industry. Kingsolver's 19-year-old daughter, Camille, wrote brief essays on the local-food project, plus nutritional information, meal plans and recipes. (Text from the UI News Service press release on OCOB 2009)

History of "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 or to nominate rights-related texts you feel would benefit our reading community. Although the 2009 selection has been made, suggestions and nominations are always welcome.

Book Suggestions

The staff at UICHR values your imput and suggestions for reading material so we have created a space where all book nominations will be listed. We hope you will take the time to look at the materials suggested by our reading community members and perhaps find a new favorite book! This new space is full of wonderful suggestions and we hope you will keep adding to this list.