October book poll nominations > Likes and Comments

Place your nominations for the book poll here. The 2 books with the most nominations and seconds will be placed on the monthly poll.
Here are the current guidelines:

- Book is by an author of color
- Book must be at least six months after publication date
- Is available in libraries (this is easy to check in GR – check click on library on the book page.
- A sentence on why you are nominating the book is appreciated
- Indicate if you would be willing to moderate/co-moderate the discussion of the book you suggest/nominate

Please take a look and click this link to see if a book you are nominating has already been discussed by the group. Thanks.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

hello! i'd like to propose hangman by maya binyam, who's an ethiopian-american author.

this debut novel approaches exile, blackness, diasporas etc. i nominate this pretty selfishly because these are themes that i naturally gravitated around and i'm hoping this novel would approach between-identities inner and outer conflicts, colorism within race. i'm surinamese-canadian and rlly i'm just searching for bipoc stories from and for other ambiguous bipoc like myself, bcs i think there is something specific in that grey cross-roads in BIPOC identity that you can't rlly find in other unambiguous BIPOC stories. i'm just hoping this story delivers for me and whoever would like to read it too.

Hello, not to toot my own horn, but I would like to nominate my book, Bar Manchester for the next book poll reading selection.

Its the story of three individuals and how their lives intertwine with a neighborhood dive, Bar Manchester, being its canvas and backdrop. Foodies that enjoy a night out at their favorite establishments will enjoy this as you'll get insiders view of the inner workings-behind the scenes of bars and restaurants from a black perspective. Its also a mystery-thriller with a touch of sci fi that spans the globe in cities like Los Angeles, Accra(Ghana), Kumasi(Ghana), New York, and London. It's an ambitious project but it was a blast to write and fun to put together. I hope you all will feel the same.

Hi. I’d like to nominate my book THE MADNESS for October — which is also my birth month ;)

The Madness is a fast paced and energetic novella that focuses on mental health in the black community without being preachy. Told from the perspective of an eccentric mental asylum inmate, we cycle through a series of cool and exciting characters as they reach their mental breaking points and cross over the threshold into madness. The book is a horror (so there’s a bit of blood and guts), but the stories span a multitude of sub genres in different voices that dovetail as the story goes on.

This book is truly unique and has been well received thus far. I would love to see how more black readers relate to the story, and am down to moderate if needed!

P.S. The Madness was recently welcomed into libraries and can be read for free online!

The Wildest Sun by Asha Lemmie.

I think it would be an interesting WWII historical fiction novel to discuss