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17th One City One Book 2022: Longlist

This is a list of books read and discussed by the One City One Book selection committee.

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  • This Is Ear Hustle

    Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

    From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people.
    Book, 2021New York : Crown, [2021] — 365.973 P792t
  • A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown.
    Book, 2020New York : Pantheon Books, [2020] — F YU CHARL
  • A consultant for Kamala Harris' attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, attempts to reconcile with the family who exiled her after she came out as a…
    Book, 2021Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021. — F AHMED NA
  • The former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe, and wonders if her should share a strange secret of a…
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — F DEROBERT
  • Minor Feelings

    An Asian American Reckoning

    Hong, Cathy Park,
    An award-winning poet and essayist offers a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American.
    Book, 2020New York : One World, 2020. — B H7574a
  • Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021. — F CORTEZ J
  • A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Dutton, 2021. — TEEN F LO
  • Concepcion

    An Immigrant Family's Fortunes

    Samaha, Albert,
    A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience.
    Book, 2021New York : Riverhead Books, 2021. — 929.2097 Sa41c
  • A novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, explores the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring.
    Book, 2021New York : Ballantine Books, [2021] — F DARZNIK
  • Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there.
    eBook, 2021[United States] : Grove Atlantic, 2021. — EBOOK HOOPLA
  • Inflamed

    Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

    Marya, Rupa, 1975-
    Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep…
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 362.1 M3695i
  • Deep Hanging Out

    Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California

    Margolin, Malcolm,
    Book, 2021Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2021] — 979.4004 M336d
  • An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance and transformation
    Book, 2020Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] — 917.946 B7308p
  • The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon.
    Book, 2021New York : Grove Press, 2021. — F NGUYEN V
  • At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories -- among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner -- cap a fifteen-year project.
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — F MASON DA
  • A homesick Pakistani immigrant chafing against the strictures of his family's new devout Muslim life in California and a young woman who barely escaped war-torn Baghdad upend their community in the aftermath of a fateful chance encounter.
    Book, 2021New York : Doubleday, [2021] — F MASOOD S
  • Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.
    Book, 2020New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2020. — F DELGADOL
  • Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save all the…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Tor, 2021. — TEEN F ANDE
  • The disappearance of a teen in the aftermath of a dispute about something that was or was not witnessed exposes dark community secrets.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — F VIDA VEN
  • Presents the story of a rare Chinese student at 1950 San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music who upon returning home is confronted by an erratic new government.
    Book, 2021New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] — F SCHELL O