Brewpub Book Club discussion

We're picking titles for the September-November meetings next month. Any suggestions (and discussion/arguments over the selections) go here. There are a few criteria, but none of this is set in stone (Wolf Hall, our August pick, violates pretty much all of the following):

- avaliable in paperback by August, for the sake of those who buy their books.

- not prohibitively long. We want to be able to read the book in a month, easily.

- check the hold list on the catalog at cadl.org. If it has a waiting list a mile long, and is likely to remain very popular for another few months, let's wait on it - those of us who check out our book club books frmot he library want to be able to get it in plenty of time to read it.

If you suggest a book, be prepared to pitch it to everyone at the June meeting so that we can vote or something like it.

All right, the schedule for Sept-Nov looks like this:

9/2: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
10/7: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
11/4: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (sorry to push this one to the end, but it still has a hold list at CADL and I'm guessing it will continue to be super popular with an Oprah movie in the works)

Other contenders were:

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb.
We also discussed the new book Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor, which we might consider for the next round. Thanks, guys!

All excellent choices! I'm coming back, I swear! I've read The Enchantress of Florence and I own American Gods - good reason to read it!