One Maryland One Book: Book Club Bundles

A CCPL One Maryland One Book Program

Participate in the One Maryland One Book program this year by creating your own book club! Reserve to pick up your Book Club Bundle at any CCPL branch starting September 1, 2021.

To reserve your One Maryland One Book: Book Club Bundle, please make a reservation at the desired branch and indicate how many books & readers or teachers guides you would like included in your bundle. 

Waldorf West Branch: 301-645-1395 / westref@ccplonline.org

P.D. Brown Branch: 301-645-2864 / pdbrownref@ccplonline.org

La Plata Branch: 301-934-9001 / laplataref@ccplonline.org

Potomac Branch: 301-375-7375 / potomacref@ccplonline.org 

What is One Maryland One Book? 

When we read a great book, we can’t wait to share the experience and talk about it with others. That’s one of the joys of reading.

In that spirit, Maryland Humanities created One Maryland One Book (OMOB) to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book. We invite you to participate in book-centered discussions and related programs at public libraries, high schools, colleges, museums, bookstores, and community and senior centers around the state.

OMOB programs, including an author tour, take place each year in the fall. A calendar of free public events will be available online this summer.

OMOB FAQ Page 

2021 One Maryland One Book: The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.

In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgement between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than any other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world—his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.

The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.

Ross Gay on One Maryland One Book: 

“I’m so grateful that The Book of Delights was chosen for One Maryland One Book. It feels lucky to get to share this collection of questions and wonderings with you all for so many reasons (one of them that my big brother was an English teacher in Frederick a couple decades ago!). And I’m really looking forward to the conversations we’ll have about the book this fall.”

Free e-Book of the One Maryland One Book Selection

Readers Guide (PDF)  Teachers Guide (PDF)

Other CCPL OMOB Programs: 

Saturday Book Discussion 9/25 at 10 AM 

CCPL Composting Workshop 9/25 at 11 AM

Clark Center Book Discussion 10/7 at 1 PM 

La Plata Book Discussion 10/14 7 PM 

Upcoming events