The Well-Read Woman Book Club discussion

Please list any nominations for our book picks for May 2020 here, and refer to Bookshelf Suggestion: How-To for ideas on types of books to nominate! Feel free to nominate up to three books for each section, we'll pick from the most popular or seconded listed. If there aren't enough nominations, I'll plan to make up the remainder with a variety of books and we can develop our future selections from there.

Classic:
Contemporary/Popular Pick:

We will have the poll up around the 15th of each month for a week's period of voting, with enough time to ensure our own copies.

Being that this is a collaborative effort, I'll contribute a few book suggestions to gain some momentum and get us started! Note that any books seconded will most likely be featured on the monthly poll.

Classic:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Contemporary/Popular Pick:
I've heard a LOT of things about Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, so I'm going to throw this one out there.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Classic:
Dubliners by James Joyce
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Contemporary/Popular Pick:
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Classic:
Madame Bovary
Mrs.Dalloway
The catcher in the Rye

Contemporary/popular pick:
A woman is no man
Queenie
The great alone

Classic:
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Contemporary:
I second In Five Years or Such a Fun Age!

Persuasion, yessss!!!!

Classic: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Contemporary: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

The May 2020 poll closes tonight at midnight! If you haven't voted and would like to, today is the day!

June 2020 Nominations are currently open for book suggestions, the June book poll will be up on May 15th.