ONE BOOK, ONE BUCHANAN

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on October 20, 2026 for a fantastic community discussion around the important issues we learned about in Stolen Focus.

If you were there, you know that—while the problems we discussed felt daunting—somehow, we left feeling hopeful. Hopeful that we can continue this conversation and activate our community to do something. We are all struggling with focus, with physical and mental health, with finding time to let our minds wander. So it makes sense that we should all come together to encourage each other and find solutions to this attention crisis.

Last night, there were some wonderful suggestions for town-wide events or initiatives, and many people indicated they would love to be part of bringing these ideas to life.

If you are one of these people, please fill out the form below, and stay tuned for more information!

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.