Read this to me

OK, it’s a little dorky and middle-brow, and we could go on and on about overexposure sapping the power of critical cultural signifiers and everything, but come on: this is pretty stirring stuff, if you let yourself think about it. Everybody in Chicago (my home town!) is reading the same book together for a few weeks. Can we do this in San Francisco? What book would it be? (I feel like I’m going to regret that question.)