Nature Literature discussion

Hello everyone,

I am now taking suggestions on this thread for the April 2022 Book of the Month. As a reminder, in April and October each year we pick a work of fiction, so please keep your nominations to a novel or collection of short stories.

Please try to include a link to the book if you can and remember to check our list of previous Books of the Month to avoid duplication: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

You will have until next Tuesday, March 8th, to add your suggestion and then the poll will go up. Please limit your suggestion to one per month so that everyone has an equal chance of having their book selected.

Thank you!

I am going to nominate Margaret Laurence's The Diviners this month. It's been a couple of decades since I've read it and I really need to revisit it. I loved it then and am certain it will resonate even more with me now. Laurence is, in my opinion, a highly underrated Canadian writer of nature literature.
The Diviners

Becky wrote: "Hello everyone,

I am now taking suggestions on this thread for the April 2022 Book of the Month. As a reminder, in April and October each year we pick a work of fiction, so please keep your nomina..."

I've enjoyed many of Margaret Laurence's books!

I'd like to nominate The Island of Missing Trees. I've heard fantastic reviews of this as nature fiction. I can't wait to read it.

I would like to nominate The Overstory by Richard Powers

Dennis wrote: "I would like to nominate, The Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven."

Hi Dennis. I see that The Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship is listed as a memoir, rather than a work of fiction. If that's the case, could you hold your nomination until May when we're back to nonfiction works?

Alicia wrote: "I would like to nominate The Overstory by Richard Powers"

Here is a link to The Overstory

I'd like to nominate Clade by James Bradley

Memory of Water byEmmi Itäranta

Far North by Marcel Theroux

Hayley wrote: "I'd like to nominate Clade by James Bradley

Memory of Water byEmmi Itäranta

Far North by [author:Marcel Theroux|22..."

Hi Hayley,

Please limit your nominations to one book per month so that everyone has the same chance of having their book selected.

Thanks,
Becky

Hi 👋🏼 I’m new here, thanks for organizing this! I’d like to nominate “One For the Blackbird, One for the Crow” by Olivia Hawker.

“Set in 1876 Wyoming, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow is a deftly crafted historical novel that fully captures hardscrabble life on the American frontier. An absorbing read from first page to last, and highly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review

Thanks for considering!
-Jenna

Becky wrote: "Hayley wrote: "I'd like to nominate Clade by James Bradley

Memory of Water byEmmi Itäranta

Far North by [author:Ma..."

Sorry! Please only consider the first book as a nomination.

Jenna wrote: "Hi 👋🏼 I’m new here, thanks for organizing this! I’d like to nominate “One For the Blackbird, One for the Crow” by Olivia Hawker.

“Set in 1876 Wyoming, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow is a..."

Here is the link for One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)

This was recommended to me as a beautiful book in translation from the Japanese, a feminist novel that delves deep into the psyche of mid 20th century women, and one that's incredibly evocative and atmospheric, with a longing for nature and a connection to a particular mountain running through it

Thanks, everyone. The poll is now up and this thread is closed.