September 2020

[Caroline]

Please list any nominations for our book picks for September 2020 here, and refer to Bookshelf Suggestion: How-To for ideas on types of books to nominate! Feel free to nominate up to three books for each section, we'll pick from the most popular or seconded listed. If there aren't enough nominations, I'll plan to make up the remainder with a variety of books and we can develop our future selections from there.

Classic:
Contemporary Classic/Best Seller:

We will have the poll up around the 15th of each month for a week's period of voting, with enough time to ensure our own copies.

[Eleni]

Classic:
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Contemporary:
All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

[Helene]

Classic:
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
A room with a view - E.M Forster
The scarlet letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Contemporary:
The Nickel boys -Colson Whitehead
The great alone - Kristin Hannah
The starless sea - Erin Morgenstern

[Caroline]

I'll contribute a few additional book suggestions to gain some momentum! Note that any books seconded will most likely be featured on the monthly poll.

Classic:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Contemporary Classic/Best Seller:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Alexander Hamilton by Rob Chernow

[Caroline]

The September 2020 poll closes tonight at midnight! If you haven't voted and would like to, today is the day!

October 2020 Nominations are currently open for book suggestions, the October book poll will be up on September 15th.