Read Women discussion

May nominations are open, we are looking for a Fiction by a Black woman author, and an Open Choice for our Non-Fiction selection this month.

Criteria:
1. Book must be by a female author (trans women and women using male pseudonyms are women).
2. No books that have already been group reads within the past 3 years/36 months (check the group's bookshelf).
3. Do not nominate a book you have written or for which you are the publicist or lead marketer.
4. Consider availability. If a book is available in the US and UK (at minimum), and in paperback and ebook formats, more members can participate than if not.

To Nominate:
1. Give both the title of the book and the author's name when nominating to avoid confusion. Please use the 'add book/author' button when nominating.
2. Indicate whether you are willing or not to lead discussion if your nomination is chosen.
3. Maximum - one nomination per member, per category.

Nominations will close in one week.

Nominations so far:

Non-fiction:
-Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, Liesl
-The Truth about Woman by C. Gasquoine Hartley, Nova
-How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair, Carol
-My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, Rose
-Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd, Lyn

Fiction:
-Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Nova
-The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson, Carol
-The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad, Rose
-Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anetq

For the Open Non-fiction, I would like to nominate Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. It is on the longlist for the 2024 Women's Prize for Nonfiction. I can lead.

I would like to nominate Kindred for fiction by black women, and I would like to nominate The Truth about Woman for open non- fiction book. I am willing to lead group discussion.

For fiction by a Black author, I nominate The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson.



For open choice nonfiction, I nominate How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair



I can lead.

BookMutant wrote: "Nominating The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman


I'm not leading"

This book doesn’t fit either of our nomination themes. Please feel free to nominate another that meets the theme guidelines posted above.

I'd like to nominate The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad, a speculative/dystopian novel about a near-future post Civil War II US south in which Black women are forced into concubinage and then marriage. Shades of The Handmaid's Tale.

For nonfiction, I nominate My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez.

I am not going to nominate as other nominations seem great. From what has been nominated it looks like the Women's Prize for Non Fiction is going to highlight some interesting reads.

I don't have a nomination for fiction by a black woman, but for non-fiction (open), I nominate "Foraging: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult" by Michelle Dowd. I can lead because it's on my reading list for the next few months anyway.

I'd like to nominate Americanah by by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (her other books are great, but I never got around to that one... As far as I can tell from the bookshelf, it's only been nominated, not read as a group read yet.

Nominations are closed and the polls are up through the 16th

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

My Side of the River and The Blueprint win.