Be sure to vote for the 2004 selection for One Book, One Bloomington.

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.

Choose from the following books:

* Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee (fiction, 1999): A disgraced 52-year-old professor seeks refuge with his daughter; together they face their own complex relationship as well as the racial challenges of South Africa.

* Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller (nonfiction, 2002): A memoir of growing up in 1970s strife-torn Rhodesia, recounting incidents of life on the fringes and the dangers and beauty of the African world.

* Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (fiction, 1999): An amateur detective with Tourette's Syndrome solves a murder in the heart of Brooklyn.

* Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi (nonfiction, 2003): The author leads a clandestine book group, discussing Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, and others, in mid-1990s Iran.

* John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead (fiction, 2001): A young journalist travels on assignment to West Virginia for a celebration of the American folk hero, John Henry, exploring pop culture, mythology, stamp collecting, redemption, racism and love.

Ballots must be cast by December 16, and the winning title will be announced in January.

One Book, One Bloomington, supported by the Bloomington Area Arts Council and the Indiana Arts Commission, encourages communitywide reading of an influential book. What if all of Bloomington read the same book?