Just like last year, I mentioned that over the weekend we got the list of recommended books for the next batch of Bookworm picks to choose from. Last time it was 31 books long, this year, it was THIRTY-SIX.
I had originally sent in 5 recommendations (same as last year) but then Megsie recommended a book to me that I thought sounded perfect for book group, so I sent it in as well.
Our organizer requested that we choose nine books and send in our picks by November 15. Never one to procrastinate when it comes to lists or books or voting, I sent mine in the next day, but because I wanted to vote for my own six recommendations, that meant I could only choose THREE other books from the list of thirty left over. It was even harder because, for once, there were very few books on the list that I have already read. That is not usually the case.
Our AWC year runs from September 1 to August 31st and we are already out of sync with it as it’s now November and we still have 3 books left from the last batch, which will take us into February. Because we meet every 6 or so weeks, with a longer break in the summer, that means that we won’t be finished with the NEW batch of books until well into 2016! Yoicks!
Anyway, here’s the list, in case you’re interested or looking for something to read!
Key: blue=recommended/voted for by me. green=voted for by me. yellow=already read
1. Love Life, by Ray Kluun
2. The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
3. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
4. Before Ever After: A Novel by Samantha Sotto
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
6. The Bees by Laline Paull
7. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
9. The Circle by Dave Eggers
10. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
12. The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills
13. Box Girl: My part time job as an art installation by Lillibet Snellings
14. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, by Elizabeth Kelly
15. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
16. Mothers and Sons Stories by Com Toibin
17. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
18. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
19. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
20. Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier
21. NW by Zadie Smith
22. Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
23. Americanah by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
24. The Life of a Banana by PP Wong
25. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham
26. Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly
27. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
28. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
29. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
30. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
31. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
32. The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
33. The Unamericans by Molly Antopol
34. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
35. All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
36. England and Other Stories by Graham Swift
Lots of good stuff to choose from, for sure! But I will bet you five bucks that The Fault in Our Stars gets voted in.