Nominations for the BOTM — JULY

[Caroline, Moderate]

Book recommendations for the month of July is now open.

HERE ARE THE RULES

✿ Recommend books that are under 200 pages or slightly more than 200 pages will do.
✿ No promotions of any kind!
✿ Please suggest a worthy title for the group to read as a whole.
✿Please suggest book that are readily available in the market and are budget friendly.
✿ Each member can nominate one book, and can endorse/second any one of the running nominations.
✿ Moderators have the final say in selecting a book for the poll.
✿ If there are no recommendations, the moderator will select two books for the poll.

Drop your recommendations in the comments

[♥ Sandi ❣]

West by Carys Davies

160 pages, Hardcover Published April 24, 2018 by Scribner

Literary awards
Wales Book of the Year for Fiction (2019), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2021), Writers' Prize Nominee (2019)

[Austin]

I nominate Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

[Cpt. Disco]

Seconding West by Carys Davies.

The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
And nominating this casual 140 page read.

[Yuri]

♥ Sandi ❣ wrote: " West by Carys Davies

160 pages, Hardcover Published April 24, 2018 by Scribner

Literary awards
Wales Book of the Year for Fiction (20..."

Endorsing this recommendation. I am currently staying in Gwynedd (North Wales) due to my job and this book is one lots of local people talk very positively about. It would be interesting to read it.

[Toni]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Toni]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Alan]

I just took out Balzac and the little…from a library yesterday. Read it twenty-five years ago and want to reread it again.

[Austin]

Alan wrote: "I just took out Balzac and the little…from a library yesterday. Read it twenty-five years ago and want to reread it again."

That's interesting, Alan. It will be my first Chinese book.

[Caroline, Moderate]

Voting is now open