One Book One Burg | Louisburg Library

We launched One Book, One Burg: Louisburg Reads in 2005. We knew of Chicago's literacy initiative to encourage everyone in the community to read the same book and we were hopeful it would be successful in Louisburg. We formed a focus group that developed a month full of programs, events and reading. October was officially declared One Book, One Burg: Louisburg Reads month by the mayor of Louisburg and the first book we read together was Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene.

For the first several years, we structured a biennial event. It was so popular with our readers that in 2011 we made it an annual program.

Our previous titles are a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, appealing to a variety of interests.

Do you have a book recommendation for future One Book, One Burg: Louisburg Reads? Email your suggestion to Kiersten Allen.

2005
Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene

2007
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

2009
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

2011
Hate List by Jennifer Brown

2012
Our Boys: A perfect season on the plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape

2013
Until Tuesday: A wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him by Louis Carlos Montalvan

2014
The Giver by Lois Lowry

2015
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

2016
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Youth Companion Title:
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George