What to Read Nov 2012: Open Pick is CHOSEN (closed)

[William]

Please select one book for nomination for the open pick. Nominations must be fiction, and published in the year 2000-present. Selections can be denied if deemed by moderators to be too genre or not to a standard appropriate to the group.

Nominations will close on Friday, October 12th.
Polls will run from Oct 12-19th. This gives you from the 19th to the 31st to get your hands on the selections.

[William]

So, for my pick, yesterday they announced that Junot Díaz won a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called Genius grant, which amounts to $500,000 over 5 years, no strings attached.

It's been nominated before a bunch of times, and it won the Pulitzer and the National Book Circle Critics award....can we FINALLY read ?? that's my nomination. Come on, MacArthur fellowship, Pulitzer, award after award...let's do this.

[Silver]

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2008), Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction (2006)

[Savanna]

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2004), Governor General's Literary Awards (2004)

[Deborah]

The Instructions. (My friend Terry is reading it and recommends it.)

[Jason]

Will wrote: "So, for my pick, yesterday they announced that Junot Díaz won a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called Genius grant, which amounts to $500,000 over 5 years, no strings attached.

It's been nominated b..."

I second this.

[Sophia]

NW by Zadie Smith

[Casceil]

I second A Complicated Kindness. I would also like to nominate Trapeze. This book also seems to sometimes be called "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky." The author, Simon Mawer was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 for "the Glass House."

[Thing Two]

How aboutThe Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli. It won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2010.

[William]

Nominations closed, poll will be up soon.

[William]

Polls have closed, by Junot Díaz has won. I will be leading the discussion, which will begin November 1st and end on December 1st.