My bookclub meets in a couple of weeks to select books for the coming year. This particular group gets a little competitive ~ at the August meeting we each give a pitch for the one or two titles we’d like to see on that year’s list. Then we vote and a list is compiled.
We each try to pitch outstanding books because at the June meeting we then vote for our favourite book of that year. The winner’s name and book title go into the illustrious ‘Bookclub Winners’ book. It’s quite an honour. 😉
Past favourites have included A Good House (Bonnie Burnard), A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles), Plainsong (Kent Haruf), The Hearts Invisible Furies (John Boyne) and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith).
So, I’d like to pitch a winner. Any recommendations? We’re a group of men and women. All genres are considered and they can be fiction or non-fiction. Thank you!
The best book I read this season was The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A searing story of slavery with an element of the supernatural thrown in.
Thanks Ellen! I’ll check it out!
If you haven´t read it already I would suggest The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron. One of the best books I´ve ever read.
Thanks Darlene! I’ll look for it. Such great praise.
The Kissing Fence by B.A. Thomas-Peter.
Thanks Monica! I’ll look for this one!
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.
Thanks Julie! I read this one and LOVED it!
Have you read The Overstory by Richard Powers? Not a light read, but I will never look at a forest the same way again. A fantastic read!
Thanks Carol. I will look for it. Sounds intriguing!