2024 One Book One Nebraska
Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime by Debora Harding
Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and
escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest.
Libraries across Nebraska will join the Nebraska Center for the Book and other literary and cultural organizations in planning book discussions, activities, and events that will encourage Nebraskans to read and discuss this book.
One Book One Nebraska 2024 is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and Nebraska Library Commission.
2024 One Book One Nebraska Announced
Nebraska Author's Work Chosen for 2024 One Book One Nebraska Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime is Nebraska's reading choice for the 2024 One Book One Nebraska Reading program. Read more...
Finalists for 2024 One Book One Nebraska Announced
A collection of essays by a Nebraska authors, a memoir, a novel set in the Sand Hills, and a Midwest thriller—all stories with ties to Nebraska and the Great Plains—are the finalists for the 2024 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program. The finalists are:
- The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers, edited by Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray
- Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime, by Debora Harding
- The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
- The Line Between, by Tosca Lee
The One Book One Nebraska reading program, now in its twentieth year, is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and Nebraska Library Commission. It encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and discuss the same book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting. A Nebraska Center for the Book committee selected the four finalists from a list nominated by Nebraskans.
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- One Book One Nebraska Official Website
- One Book One Nebraska Start Page — An introduction to the selections for each year