Choose September's Reading group book

After the unrepresentative and elitist choices of recent months, this time we'll go for bestsellers

The last two months on the Reading Group have been among my favourite so far. The discussions of André Gide and Alan Garner have been fascinating, intelligent and enlightening – and everything you could hope for in a reader-led book group. I have been slightly anxious, however, that these two months have perhaps led us too far from our revolutionary origins.

Alan Garner was not elected; the discussion of Boneland and his early masterpieces The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and Moon of Gomrath was a diktat from yours truly. André Gide, meanwhile, is wonderful, but about as elitist as they come.

It's clearly time to hand power back to the people. It's time for a populist Reading Group. It's time to talk about bestsellers.

How we define bestsellers is up to you. Anything, basically, that has sold truckloads of copies dating from Homer right up to 50 Shades of Grey. We shan't be pernickity about figures, so long as it has the right feel. So no Keith Ridgway even if you think that justice will one day see his books on every school desk in the land, but lots of JK Rowling, Margaret Mitchell and (god help us) Jeffrey Archer. Don't forget too that writers like Gibbon, Dickens, Hemingway and the Brontës have sold plenty of books in their time … But I should stop. I'm setting terms and dropping hints already, when the choice is yours.

And I thought we'd go on votes this time around in line with the spirit of bestsellerness. (The sorting hat will come back into play next month. I'll choose something suitably autumnal…)

FictionSam Jordison
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