Please help choose the book for the 2025 Salem Reads: One Book, One Community project! The Salem Reads Title Selection Committee has worked hard to narrow the choices to three excellent books.

Visit the survey and cast your vote through Monday, June 10.

Put these books in your order of preference. This Ranked Choice Voting will decide which book we explore together as a community in February 2025. The options are:

• Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa
  María Hinojosa, Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of NPR's Latino USA, shares her experiences from growing up Mexican American in Chicago to documenting life in immigration detention camps as a journalist. It is a deeply personal story of what it means to survive and thrive in the face of tremendous difficulty. It is also a history of US immigration policy that shines a light on communities in America that often go ignored by mainstream media.
  Available formats: English and Spanish in print, eBook, audiobook on CD, and eAudiobook; young readers' edition in English and Spanish in print and eBook

• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
  Kolbert examines the impacts humans have had on the natural world through the lens of work around the globe to intervene and adapt to the changes. She interviews scientists whose work - from preserving a rare fish to developing a heartier coral to attempts to cool the earth itself - is providing hope for planetary salvation.
  Available formats: English in print, large print, eBook, audiobook on CD, and eAudiobook; Spanish translation in print and eBook

• Why Didn't You Tell Me? by Carmen Rita Wong
  Columnist, television host, and professor Carmen Rita Wong delves into her difficult childhood and desperation to find a sense of belonging. Wong grows up surrounded by Black and brown Latina women like her mother, Chinese men like her hustler father, and finally white playgrounds in New Hampshire after her stepfather joins the family. In adulthood, still struggling with a tense and conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Wong finally learns the deepest of family secrets when her mother is no longer alive and it's too late to ask: Why didn't you tell me?
  Available formats: English in print, eBook, and eAudiobook; Spanish translation in print, eBook, and eAudiobook