The Well-Read Woman Book Club discussion

Please list any nominations for our book picks for August 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 Classic/Best Seller:

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.

Contemporary: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Classic: A Separate Peace by John Knowles

I second Elbas suggestions 😊

I'll contribute a few additional book suggestions to gain some momentum! Note that any books seconded will most likely be featured on the monthly poll.

Classic:
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Contemporary Classic/Best Seller:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Tennis Partner by by Abraham Verghese

More suggestions for August 2020

Classics: Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Contemporary: Me Talk Pretty One Day by Dave Sedaris
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

One more for Contemporary: Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Contemporary:
The song of Achilles ~ Madeline Miller
The cruel prince ~ Holly Black
Lost roses ~ Martha Hall Kelly


Classic:
War and peace ~ Leo Tolstoy
The raven ~ Edgar Allen Poe
The color purple ~ Alice Walker

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

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