id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt lucic-towards-2020 Microsoft Office User lucic-towards-2020 .docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 2981 180 58 On its "Big Read" website, the Library of Congress includes information about One Book programs around the United States,[footnoteRef:2] and the American Library Association (ALA) also provides materials with which a library can build its own One Book program and, in this way, bring members of their communities together in a conversation.[footnoteRef:3] While community reading programs are not a new phenomenon and exist in various formats and sizes, the One Book One Chicago program is notable because of its size (the Chicago Public Library has 81 local branches) as well as its history (the program has been in existence for nearly 20 years). As part of ongoing work of the "Reading Chicago Reading" project, we used the secure data portal of the HathiTrust Research Consortium to access and pre-process the in-copyright novels in our set. The place names extracted from our three Chicago-setting OBOC books allowed us to focus on particular areas of the city such as Hyde Park, which is mentioned in each of them. ./cache/lucic-towards-2020.docx ./txt/lucic-towards-2020.txt