Now in its tenth year, the Coronado Community READ is designed to unite the community through the shared reading of a single book. The program encourages discussion and participation in planned community-building events around the theme of the title, selected by you, the readers.

The Coronado Community READ Selection Committee, comprised of Coronado Public Library staff, community partners, and local book club members, considered all nominated titles and applied the established criteria to narrow the field down to 10 and then to 5 titles.

Voting Ends December 15.

Here, in no particular order, are the final five titles:

		All the Beauty in the World Patrick Bringley Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
		The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this rewiring of childhood has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
		The Feather Detective Chris Sweeney The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world's first forensic ornithologist- Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few fragments of feathers.
		Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet, a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain, and the years leading up to the production of his great play.
		The Wager David Grann On January 28, 1742, thirty starving survivors of His Majesty’s Ship The Wager washed up in Brazil with an astonishing tale of shipwreck, survival, and heroism after their vessel, pursuing a Spanish treasure galleon, wrecked off Patagonia; yet six months later, three more castaways arrived in Chile accusing the first group of mutiny, prompting counterclaims of tyranny and murder and revealing how the stranded crew had descended into violent anarchy. As the Admiralty convened a life-or-death court martial to uncover the truth, David Grann’s The Wager unfolds this gripping saga with the vivid detail of Patrick O’Brian, the harrowing urgency of classic survival epics, and the intrigue of a legal thriller, ultimately exposing not just the crew’s ordeal but the very foundations and failings of empire itself.