Announcing the Top Ten selections for
One Maryland One Book 2025!

Titles listed alphabetically by author. Click the book cover or title for more information.

	The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. Grove Atlantic, 2020. Nonfiction. “A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.”
	Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin Penguin, 2024. Nonfiction. “Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all.”
	Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin Hachette, 2023. Nonfiction. “Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung’s, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy’s childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him–and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.”
	Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole Random House, 2023. Fiction. “Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that engages brilliantly with literature, music, race, and history as it examines the passage of time and how we mark it.”
	Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille Dungy Simon & Schuster, 2024. Nonfiction. “In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet…”
	Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton Legacy Lit, 2024. Nonfiction. “In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.”
	Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Harper Perennial, 2021. Nonfiction. “Through interviews, photos, and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her family’s oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the way–the tissue of black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history.”
	The Collectors, edited by A.S. King; stories by King, M. T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay and Jenny Torres Sanchez Penguin Random House, 2023. Fiction/Short Stories. “From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.”
	Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green Algonquin Books, 2024. Nonfiction. “[Cambodian refugee] Nguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes such as sour chicken-lime soup, green papaya pickles, and pâté de foie, as well as Khmer curries, stir-fries, and handmade bánh canh noodles.”
	Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford with art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford Atheneum Books, 2023. Poetry. “…from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal.”