Nominations for open group read June 2012 - CLOSED

[William]

It's that time again! Time to nominate your books for the June 2012 Group Read! Please limit yourself to one book per person, and that book must have been written in the year 2000 or later, be a work of fiction, and be in your opinion a notable, even TOWERING work of literature. Nominations not conforming to this (self-promotion, for example) or books clearly falling under the heading of pulp (as judged by the mods) will not be included in the polls.

Then on June 8th, the nominations will close, and TWO polls will open for you to vote on: the first group read, and you will also be able to vote for the MOD group read. A week later, both polls will close, giving us all two weeks to get our hot little hands on the books in time to begin reading them on June 1st, 2012.

Please try to use the goodreads "add book/author" link above to link your book nomination, as sometimes there's multiple books of the same name, and it can be hard to tell what exactly you meant.

[Ellen]

I nominate The Instructions

[Nick]

I nominate After Dark

[Mirvan.]

hmm.. I nominate Necrophilia Variations

[Flora]

The End of Mr.Y

[Jason]

A Visit from the Goon Squad

[William]

impressive, 4 nominations by the time I posted the threads!

Anyway, I nominate The Master written by Colm Tóibín

A book which has made our shortlist a few times now, nominated by 2-3 people over that time, shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker, and winner of the IMPAC Dublin in 2006.

[June]

I nominate "The Healing" by Jonathan Odell.

[Sophia]

I'd like to nominate Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

Nominated for the Orange Prize 2012

[Rohn]

The Preacher's Bride/Jody Hedlund

Rohn Federbush

[Glynis]

I'd like to nominate The Sense of an Ending

[Thing Two]

I nominate Unaccustomed Earthby Jhumpa Lahiri. It was published in 2008, is a NYT Notable Book, and was nominated for a Story Prize.

Bet you didn't see that nomination coming ...

[Silver]

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Man Booker Prize (2008), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008), Galaxy British Book Awards for Author of the Year (0), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Finalist (2009) .

[Brooke]

Jason wrote: "A Visit from the Goon Squad"

I second "A Visit from the Goon Squad"

[Edward]

Ellie wrote: "I nominate The Instructions"

I second on the Instructions. Bring it!!!

[Annelise]

I'd like to nominate A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[Candiss]

I nominate Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

winner of the Orange Prize; winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

[William]

So far, I've had to delete two nominations from people trying to promote their own novels (both of which were genre fiction, by the way)

One nomination is currently being reviewed by the mods as a group to determine whether or not it meets the criteria for the group.

[Thing Two]

Ellie wrote: "I nominate The Instructions"

Ellie that book's got 1000+ pages!!!! Yikes!

[William]

It's a rather complete set of instructions then.

[Glynis]

I hope it's not mine that is being considered! ;) I don't know if it is a towering work of fiction as I haven't read it yet, but I do know it was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2011! So hopefully it is!

[Mirvan.]

i love this thread.. all the books mentioned are the ones i would have suggested!!!!

[Ellen]

KJ wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I nominate The Instructions"

Ellie that book's got 1000+ pages!!!! Yikes!"

Yes but it's a fast read. The writing is excellent but not especially dense. And it's very, very funny, imho.

[Monica]

Glynis wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Sense of an Ending"

I second that!

[William]

sense of an ending has been nominated a few times before, it's fine to be so again. Books which are disallowed have their posts deleted, and if it's a beloved member who just picked the wrong book because it's any number of things like non-fiction, published/written in the wrong year, etc will get a message saying they can pick another book.

Members who just post their own book, after it's clear the book (and sadly often times the member) isn't attempting greatness, the post is deleted and NO message sent.

[Barbara]

I'd like to nominate Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante. Winner of the 2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

[Allen]

I nominate The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. In my opinion, it should have taken the Booker Prize last year.

[Candiss]

Allen wrote: "I nominate The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. In my opinion, it should have taken the Booker Prize last year."

I really enjoyed this one. I am not generally a fan of Westerns, but this was complex, character-driven, and totally satisfying...not to mention infused with a subtly dark humor.

[Lisa]

I nominate The Newlyweds. The review on NPR compared the author to Franzen, good enough for me :)

[Asha]

I nominate

[William]

Asha wrote: "I nominate "

That would rock to nominate, but The Bell Jar was published originally in 1963 or so, so this nomination will not be recorded.

[[deleted user]]

Will wrote: "Asha wrote: "I nominate "

That would rock to nominate, but The Bell Jar was published originally in 1963 or so, so this nomination will not be recorded."

My nomination is for Thanks.

[William]

You may still comment and discuss in this thread, but the nominations for this vote are closed. Polls will be up in a little bit.

[Romah]

My nomination is for


regards

[William]

Fascinatingly enough, there are several problems with this:

#1: the nominations closed weeks ago.
#2: The polls that followed the nominations even closed.
#3: This book was published BEFORE 2000, and thus isn't 21st century..
and last but not least:
#4: It's non-fiction.

So in around two weeks or so, we'll start nominating books for July 2012, but this book still can't be considered.