Vote for Your December Book

Hello, Bookies:

 

It's time to pick your last book of 2010. Holy smoke, where did the year go? Next up as leader is Realsimple.com Deputy Editor Maura Fritz, and we'll be discussing the winning book of the four below. Be sure to vote by 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, November 21.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Lee's powerful tale of childhood, race, and class is a Pulitzer Prize winner and an American classic.

 

The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe

Jaffe's 1958 debut, a classic of a whole other sort, revolves around young women who come to Mad Men–era New York to make a career in the publishing business.

 

Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder

The latest from Pulitzer Prize winner Kidder is a powerful and inspirational true story of a Burundian refugee who arrives in New York City homeless and practically penniless and works his way to a medical degree and American citizenship.

 

I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith

Part Jane Austen, part Little Women, Smith's witty, romantic novel is a coming-of-age tale of an aspiring writer who lives with her eccentric family in a deteriorating English castle, and finds her life complicated when two rich American brothers move in next door.

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