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What award winner would you like to read for March's Group Read?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
by A Spell of Winter Helen Dunmore
419: A Novel by Will Ferguson
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
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Feb 15, 2013 08:53AM
Wow! Very hard choice. They all sound like great books!!
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I'm reading The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives right now, and the author mentions that John Kennedy Toole comitted suicide because his book was rejected by a few publishers. A Confederacy of Dunces was only published because of his mother's persistence after his death. It's a little dark, but it still made me curious enough to read it along with The Neon Bible.Here's the wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ken...
