Since the inaugural One City, One Book in 2002, over 82,000 people have enjoyed meaningful conversations inspired by themes in the selected titles.  Greensboro Public Library sponsors this city-wide reading project every other year. This is an archive of previous projects as they existed on our website. You will find listings of events, images, recordings and other elements unique to each project.

• 2023 - The Carolina Table by Randall Kenan
• 2021 - There There by Tommy Orange
• 2019 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• 2017 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• 2015 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• 2013 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
• 2010 - The Soloist by Steve Lopez
• 2006 - Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
• 2008 - The Pleasure Was Mine by Tommy Hayes
• 2004 - The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
• 2002 - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

• Toni Morrison
• Isabel Allende
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)