"One Book, One New York" is a city-wide project where New Yorkers will read the same book at the same time. Julie Menin, the media and entertainment commissioner for New York City, and authors Jennifer Egan, Esmeralda Santiago, Imbolo Mbue, Hari Kunzru and Barry Jenkins (whose film "Moonlight" won an Academy Award), who is the screenwriter and director of a film adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, join us to talk about the books New Yorkers are voting on now, to choose which book the whole city will read.
Here are this year's final five:
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Manhattan Beach (Scribner, October 2017) by Jennifer Egan
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (Da Capo Press, February 2006) by Esmeralda Santiago
- White Tears: A Novel (Knopf, March 2017) by Hari Kunzru
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Behold the Dreamers: A Novel (Random House, August 2016) by Imbolo Mbue
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage, Reprint Edition, 2006) by James Baldwin
Once you've made your pick, you can vote here.