ANNOUNCING OUR 2026
ONE BOOK, ONE BUCHANAN TITLE

We are excited to announce our 2026 One Book, One Buchanan title, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari!

One Book, One Buchanan is an annual community-wide reading event to bring everyone in our town together to read and discuss one book! This program is a partnership between Buchanan District Library, Glendora Bookshop, and One Buchanan. 

 

About Stolen Focus: 

All over the world, our ability to pay attention is collapsing. In the US, college students now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and office workers on average manage only three minutes. New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari went on an epic journey across the world to meet the leading scientists and experts investigating why this is happening to us – and discovered that everything we think we know on this subject is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. It is not. This has been done to us – by powerful external forces. Our focus has been stolen. Johann discovered there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. He shows how he learned this in a thrilling journey that takes him from Silicon Valley dissidents who figured out how to hack human attention, to veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers’ attention.

Crucially, he learned how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. The answers will surprise and thrill you. This is a book about our attention crisis unlike any you’ve read before.

 

Books will be available starting Saturday, August 22, 2026. Books are free, but if you would like to support the ongoing success of this program, and a local business (books are purchased through Glendora Bookshop), donations are gratefully accepted. (Suggested donation: $10 a book.)

Register for a book by clicking this link: REGISTER HERE

Donate to program by clicking this link: DONATE HERE

The Community-wide Discussion will take place on Tuesday, October 20 from 6 to 8pm. Stay tuned for more details!

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