It's time to cast your vote for the 2005 selection for One Book, One Bloomington and Beyond.

Look for ballot boxes in the Information Commons and the Reference Desk in the East Tower of the Main Library, as well as other locations around Bloomington.  You can also cast your vote online.


This year's nominees are:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
One of the most celebrated and controversial of American novels, Huck Finn's journey down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave, celebrates nature and adventure while criticizing social mores of the time.


The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
A tenacious and independent young woman leaves her Kentucky home and heads west to Arizona, discovering life, friendships, and motherhood in unlikely places in a book that is both funny and inspiring.

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
A Chinese-American woman searches for her family history and discovers broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love in this novel set in China in the 1920s and in contemporary San Francisco.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
An ironically humorous mystery narrated by a 15-year-old boy with autism who is unable to understand emotions or metaphors, this novel explores emotional events in a way that is both moving and enlightening.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The first Afghan novel written in English chronicles the effects of Afghanistan's turbulent recent history on the lives of its characters, exploring father-son relationships, friendships, and issues of betrayal and atonement, while engaging the reader in a tale about a land that no longer seems so far away.

Ballots must be cast by December 1, and the winning title will be announced in January 2005.

One Book, One Bloomington, supported by the Bloomington Area Arts Council and the Indiana Arts Commission, is designed to promote reading of great literature and unite the community through discussion of a single book. What if all of Bloomington read the same book?