2005
United We Read

2005 Nominations

The following books were nominated by the 2005 United We Read committee for consideration for this year's selection.  The committee decided to select both a Fiction and a Non-Fiction book this year.

Crescent - by Diana Abu-Jabar
Dreams from my Father:  A Story of Race and Inheritance - by Barack Obama
In the Heart of the Sea - by Nathaniel Philbrick
October Suite - by Maxine Clair
Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - by Mary Roach
The Shadow of the Wind - by Carlos Ruiz-Zafo
The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini
There is room for You - by Charlotte Bacon
Tortilla Curtain - by T.C. Boyle
True Notebooks - by Mark Salzman
Under the Southern Sun - by Paul Paolicelli