A dog philosopher, a widower and a scientific breakthrough are all competing to be the next subjects for the One Book, One Denver program.
Voting for the eighth annual citywide book club, which in the past has included Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960) and Dashiell Hammett’s “The Thin Man” (1934), runs through June 15.
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Arts & Venues Denver will announce the winner on Sept. 1.
This year’s candidates are Garth Stein’s “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” about a pooch named Enzo who gains insight through the prism of racing; Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” a love story set against the Asian-American tensions of World War II; and Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” a nonfiction mystery about scientific breakthroughs gained by exploiting the cells of a poor Southern tobacco farmer.
Organizers estimated that nearly 4,000 people participated in the reading and community events around last year’s selection, Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help.” John Wenzel
