June Additional Read Nominations ***CLOSED***

[Lynn, Moderator]

Time to nominate your additional monthly read for June.

These nominations are open to any book (with the exception of the points below)*.

- Please make sure to include book link or book cover link. This can be done by clicking on the 'add book / author' link above the comment box. If not possible (because you're using the mobile app), then make sure you include both book title and author.
Your nomination will not count if not in either of these formats.

- *Please refrain from nominating any book that has already been a group read or scheduled to read as part of the Goodreads Choice Award Book Club. These can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

- *Please do not nominate a second (or later) book in a series read. Your nomination will be not counted if you do.

- Only one nomination per person will be accepted.

- Nominations will close on Sunday 27th, 5pm GMT and will be followed by a poll.

[Alissa]

I would like to nominate Me Before Youby Jojo Moyes

[Beth]

I would like to nominate The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman

[ally ¯\(ツ)/¯]

I would like to nominate The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.

[Misha]

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

[Beth]

RitaSkeeter wrote: "Can I please nominate A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki."

I just finished this book the other day - it was interesting - definitely different from what I normally read.

[Donna]

I'd like to nominate Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

[Virginie (chouettblog)]

I would like to nominate by Katherine Allred

[Kirsten]

I would like to nominate Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal

[Jenn S. (Book Buzz)]

The Sweet Gum TreeI second it! It is amazingly good!

[ally ¯\(ツ)/¯]

I keep hearing people say how great The Sweet Gum Tree is... I just can't help but judge it by its cover and think BLEH!

[Sarah]

I would like to nominate - In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.

The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, "Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still.

[Lynn, Moderator]

☆αlly☆ (litєrαry єscαpist) wrote: "I keep hearing people say how great The Sweet Gum Tree is... I just can't help but judge it by its cover and think BLEH!"

LOL, yup the cover is pretty horrible but the book is wonderful :)

[Jenn S. (Book Buzz)]

I nominate The Husband's Secret

[Alycia]

...it would count towards the GCA challenges. :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Nowhere But Home

[Dianne]

I'd be really interested in reading

[Kirsten]

Me too. I've had it on my Kindle for far too long!

[Alycia]

Oh boy there's too many that I want to read this time! Lol

[Lynn, Moderator]

Nominations are now closed, a poll will follow soon.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Poll is up and ready for voting https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...