“Chicago has one. So do Malibu and San Diego, Denver and Poughkeepsie, Seattle and Philadelphia … a One Book, One City program, in which an entire community reads the same work and launches into a series of discussions, lectures, readings, and occasionally film screenings.” Yet “Boston, which has rested comfortably on its haute literary perch for ages, has never had one,” and nobody wants to take the lead in starting one.