2025 - 2026 OCOB Selection
The One Campus, One Book Group is pleased to announce that Moorpark College's 2025 - 2026 One Campus, One Book selection will be Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. To learn more, check out the library's research guide.
Coordinators are Roza Gabrielyan (rgabrielyan@vcccd.edu) and Crystal Salas (crystal_salas1@vcccd.edu).
Book Trailer:
Publisher's Summary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band–and meeting the man who would become her husband–her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
Access:
The Library has print copies available. View available books in our Library Collection.
OCOB Titles Through the Years:
- 2001-2002: participated in statewide reading initiative of The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- 2002-2003: Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
- 2003-2004: Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- 2004-2005: A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
- 2005-2006: Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
- 2006-2007: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Year of Science and Religion)
- 2007-2008: Living Downstream, by Sandra Steingraber (Year of the Environment)
- 2008-2009: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (Year of Democracy)
- 2009-2010: The Soloist, by Steve Lopez (Year of Service)
- 2010-2011: Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario (Year of the Economy)
- 2011-2012: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Year of Conflict Transformation)
- 2012-2013: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (The Year of Self and Society)
- 2013-2014: Feed, by M.T. Anderson (The Year of Technology and Humanity)
- 2014-2015: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell (The Year of Myth and Reality)
- 2015-2016: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler (The Year of Wellness)
- 2016-17: Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari (The Year of Then and Now, 50th anniversary)
- 2017-18: Hamilton: An American Musical, by Lin-Manuel Miranda (The Year of Civic Engagement)
- 2018-19: What the Best College Students Do, by Ken Bain (The Year of Pathways and Detours)
- 2019-20: Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
- 2020-21: Educated, by Tara Westover
- 2021-22: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- 2022-23: Mecca, by Susan Straight
- 2023-24: Illegally Yours: A Memoir, by Rafael Agustin
- 2024-25: They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, Eisinger, Scott, and Becker
