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2015 Starting List for the OBOC Selection Process


If you are looking for some good books to read, there are many on this list. They just weren't necessarily right for the One Book program for many different reasons. Some titles were taken off the list quickly, others went down to the final choices.  To read more about the selection process and the criteria we use, click here. 

NOTE:  These titles are presented in no particular order. 
The five titles that the committee selected for the One Book, Your Vote are underlined in this list. 

& Sons by David Gilbert

Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin

Bobcat and Other Stories (short stories) by Rebecca Lee

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally

Dear Life (short stories) by Alice Munro

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr

Fools (short stories) by Joan Silber

How It All Began by Penelope Lively

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (memoir) by Anna Quindlen

Me Before You by JoJo Myers

Miss Peregrene's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Reality Boy by A.S. King

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (NF) by Mary Roach

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

The Rent Collector by Cameron Wight

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

The Submission by Amy Waldeman

The Tiger (NF) by John Vaillant

The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini

True Grit by Charles Portis

Unpacking the Boxes (NF) by Donald Hall

Until I Say Goodbye (memoir) by Susan Spencer-Wendel

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Where the God of Love Hangs Out (short stories) by Amy Bloom

You Know When the Men Are Gone (short stories) by Siobhan Fallon

Z:  A Novel about Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Book of Ages: Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (NF) by Jill Lepore

Wordy Shipmates (NF) by Sarah Vowell

Still Life by Louise Penny

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Spectacular Happiness by Peter Kramer

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Snake Eaters by Owen West

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth Silver

Lexicon by Max Berry

The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu


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