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June book time! BEFORE YOU VOTE: Will you return to discuss the book you voted on? Vote and run is not cool, so don't do it please, for the sake of other participants, thanks! Now... what book would you like to discuss in June? (Read in May.) Happy voting!
*As always I recommend if any look good to you, go ahead and put them on hold at the library if available.*

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
2008, 399 pages, 4.06 stars
$11.99 Kindle, $7.69 and up used, at library



The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
 
  19 votes, 38.0%

Recursion by Blake Crouch
Goodreads Choice Winner 2019
2019, 336 pages, 4.18 stars
$11.99 Kindle, $9 and up used, at library



Memory makes reality.

That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
 
  12 votes, 24.0%

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
1968, 244 pages, 4.09 stars
$11.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library



It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
 
  11 votes, 22.0%

The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993, 208 pages, 4.13 stars
$3.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library



The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
 
  8 votes, 16.0%


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message 1: by Jay (new)

Jay How do you vote?


message 2: by Gertie (new)

Gertie Hi Jay. You can just click on the book you want - see how each option is surrounded by a brownish box? Click anywhere inside that box.

If you want to look up the books first, you can click the small book covers at the bottom (just above this discussion).

If you accidentally vote on something, after you vote there will be a "change your vote" link underneath the poll you can use.


message 3: by Jay (new)

Jay I'm pushing for 3 body. I have the book, don't want to spend money on a new one, and its one of those books I would probably not read otherwise.


message 4: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Harnish I also voted for the "Three Body Problem." I also already have it, ready a couple of years ago, remember thinking it was good, but now have no memory of what it was about, or what happened! A book as well received by so many others (have you seen the ratings?) deserves better attention.


message 5: by Jay (new)

Jay I have not looked at the ratings, and I felt guilty for suggesting a book for no other reason than I'm cheap.


message 6: by Gertie (new)

Gertie Hey, doesn't matter what your reasons are, as long as you actually participate if your vote wins. :-P


message 7: by Xapphirea (last edited Apr 27, 2020 11:39AM) (new)

Xapphirea Recursion is categorised "romance novel" so it slipped my attention till now. Lets do this! -- looks like 3 body problem might be the winner, so I put that one on my read list aswell :))


message 8: by Gertie (new)

Gertie Ha that's funny - where are you seeing the Romance label? It does make sense though, when I think about it.


message 9: by Xapphirea (new)

Xapphirea I saw it in the audiobook service I have here, it is called Storytel. Usually I skip the romance novel departments and go straight to scifi and fantasy ^^


message 10: by Gertie (new)

Gertie Yeah this one is probably a good one for you then!


message 11: by Jane (new)

Jane Recursion was an amazing book. I am not going to vote because i am one that is about 50/50 on returning to comment, but it was one of the Book of the Month club year end favorites. It haunted me. So good!!


message 12: by Gertie (new)

Gertie Yeah it was an interesting one! I am considering making it a club read since it got a good number of runner-up votes.


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