October 2024 Polls Open

[Anita]

Hello members,

It’s time to open nominations for our October reads.
Fiction: Horror or Fantasy
Non-Fiction: Black Britain - I’d like to leave this open to your interpretation, but some suggestions may be Black British Authors, musicians, artists, Black British History or politics. Memoirs, biographies - books can be written by or about.

Criteria:
1. Book must be by a female author (trans women and women using male pseudonyms are women).
2. No books that have already been group reads within the past 3 years/36 months (check the group's bookshelf).
3. Do not nominate a book you have written or for which you are the publicist or lead marketer.
4. Consider availability. If a book is available in the US and UK (at minimum), and in paperback and ebook formats, more members can participate than if not.

To Nominate:
1. Give both the title of the book and the author's name when nominating to avoid confusion. Please use the 'add book/author' button when nominating.
2. Indicate whether you are willing or not to lead discussion if your nomination is chosen.
3. Maximum - one nomination per member, per category.

Nominations will close in one week.

[GailW]

For Horror (and a mix of fantasy): Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories by Shirley Jackson. This volume contains short stories that the author's children found after her death that were never published in her lifetime.
Available in eBook, paperback, and audio.

I am willing to lead.

[Jen]

For fiction, I’d like to nominate a short book of short stories- The Houseguest and Other Stories by Mexican author Amparo Davila.

[Nike]

For fantasy I'm nominating The Night Raven by Sarah Painter

I'm willing to lead.

[Liesl]

For the Horror/Fantasy read, I nominate Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline. I am willing to lead.

[Carol]

For Horror/Fantasy, I nominate The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke.

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.

For Black British Nonfiction, I nominate I Am Not Your Baby Mother by author, journalist and podcaster,Candice Brathwaite.

When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine experience in Great Britain today. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?".

Candice started blogging about motherhood in 2016 after making the simple but powerful observation that the way motherhood is portrayed in the British media is wholly unrepresentative of our society at large. The author writes with humour, but with straight-talk about facing hurdles such as white privilege, racial micro-aggression and unconscious bias at every point.

I can lead.

[Anita]

A few more days for nominations

[Mj]

For Black-British non-fiction, I nominate Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, an award winning British journalist. Her response from a blog post she'd written was so overwhelming that she decided to explore more and write this book. Per Booker Award Winner Marlon James "This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book." Its publisher Bloomsbury Circus suggests that this book "has transformed the conversation both in Britain and around the world." If selected I'd be fine with leading the discussion.

[Shomeret]

Mj wrote: "For Black-British non-fiction, I nominate Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, an award winning British journalist. Her respons..."

I just checked out this book from the library today.

[Anita]

Thank you everyone for your nominations. The polls are now open through the 15th.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

[Anita]

One more day for voting!