South Shore Readers discussion

Post your ideas on books we should read. As people suggest books, I will add them to the 2nd post in this topic.

You can see the 2020 suggestions thread here if you are looking for ideas: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

General Guidelines:
1) We try to keep page count to under 400
2) Ideally book should be available in paperback

We do read longer reads in December/January so if you do have longer book ideas feel free to post them.

Authors: please resist the urge to suggest your own book in this thread. We do have a Author Promotion discussion section if you would like to post there.


2021 PICKS SO FAR
January: The Count of Monte Cristo
February: Transcendent Kingdom
March: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
April: The Midnight Library
May: The House in the Cerulean Sea
June: Juliet Takes a Breath
July: I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies
August: Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
September: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
October: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
November: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Suggestions: (I will edit this post as people suggest books in follow up comments)

Fiction
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Nonfiction
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
A Black Women's History of the United States
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

We have discussed a bit and decided that we will pick our Feb book based on a theme of Black History Month, so post any suggestions for that theme here or any other ideas for later months.

Some ideas...

How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
A Black Women's History of the United States
Dear Martin
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

From lynn:

The Old Drift
Transcendent Kingdom

Our next meeting is in a little over a week. We will be picking our March book. Any suggestions/ideas?

Some of my ideas:
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by
The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
Kartography
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
The Midnight Library
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Authenticity Project

Here's books in my house I haven't read yet, suggestions for May 2021 and future:
Fiction:
-An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
-Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron
-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Non-Fiction:
-12 Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives by Solomon Northrup
-Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
-The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

Thans Michele. I've added those suggestions to the master list in the 2nd post. We've already read American Marriage and Between the World and Me as a group so I left those off. They were both great books, in my opinion.

The next two picks are:
October: Lovecraft Country
November: The Only Good Indians

The meeting details such as dates & locations are still being worked out.

For the Jan 2022 "long read," I suggest The Nix
Published in 2016, and a 4.05 Goodreads rating. 640 pages.

My suggestion was The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Average rating 4.48 and 582 pages

Did I miss the memo about the long book? I’m so out of the loop….

No We haven't decided yet. heh. I was going to post some thoughts today. Any ideas? we figured "Not too long" and not a classic.

I’m open to anything that’s not teaching pedagogy or critical praxis etc.

I’m new to this group :) I’d also be interested in tackling The Heart’s Invisible Furies, as it’s been on my shelf for a while.