After eleven years, One Book One Denver has opened a new chapter , with the selection finally revealed August 8: Stay True , by New Yorker staff writer Hua Tsu. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, it follows Hsu’s college years in the 1990s, exploring the meaning of friendship, grief, memory and more.

It's not a Denver book or even one focusing on Colorado — and there are plenty of those worth reading — but none of the previous OBOD titles had much of a local hook, either.

Then-Mayor John Hickenlooper started the program that lasted almost a decade. "The whole point behind One Book One Denver was to create a stronger sense of community, not just in Denver, but across the metro area," he recalls. "The more people feel connected to a larger group, the mor

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