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