N O M I N A T I O N S

  Nominations from 2021

2 collections of tales by folks living within the larger public narrative...
Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalachia – August 24, 2020 by Mary Othella Burnette
Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union by Svetlana Alexievich (2015 Nobel Prize Winner)

Marilynne Robinson  Gilead
Rick Atkinson    The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)
Paulette Jiles    News of the World
Terry Tempest Williams    When Women Were Birds
Mikhail Bulgakov    The Master and Margarita
Hari Kunzru    Red Pill
Kamala Harris    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

  Nominations from 2020

Jonathan Eig The Birth of The Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Kathleen Rooney  Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey



Louise Penny Still Life
Kathleen Rooney    Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

from Pamela Carmell on Aug 4: Wolf Whistle, by Lewis Nordan

from Luise on 2020 07 12
After reading this obit, I got Bless Me, Ultima from the library.  Very interesting.  Maybe a nomination?
Best to everyone.  BTW, enjoyed the latest funny short story But I’m not clever enuf to make a likewise statement!! 😊
Luise
Rudolfo Anaya, a Father of Chicano Literature, Dies at 82
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/books/rudolfo-anaya-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

The Rainbow Troops Paperback – February 11, 2014 by ANDREA HIRATA
From Indonesia, an inspiring, record-breaking bestseller―and a modern-day fairy tale

Paul Rudnick I Shudder
Earnest Gaines The Tragedy of Brady Sims
Sara Kendzior   The View from Flyover Country

Mary W. Shelley   The Last Man

Lawrence H. Keeley
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Zadie Smith
Feel Free: Essays

Rivka Galchen
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Edward Wilson-Lee
The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library

Doug Lansky
 There's No Toilet Paper...on the Road Less Traveled

J Ryan Stradal
Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Lawrence H. Keeley
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage



20200216
    - We wound up postponing our Dec 2019 and Jan 2020 meetings because of icy conditions.
So we held our ‘light reading’ selection meeting on 15 Feb 2020 - indeed, a fun time was had by all!
    Our next selections are:

20200129
https://www.samekindofdifferentasme.com
20200122
"Ink and Bone" by Rachel Caine - the January WUSTL Libraries Book Club selection
Spring 2020 Book Club Selections:

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
Wednesday, January 15
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Washington University Danforth Campus
John M. Olin Library
Mendle Classroom
Event Details

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World  by Eric Weiner
Wednesday, February 19
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Washington University Danforth Campus
John M. Olin Library
Newman Exploration Center
Event Details

The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris
Wednesday, March 25
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Washington University Medical Campus
Becker Medical Library
King Center, 7th Floor
Event Details
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Last nomination note of 2019
Nominations that come to my attention between BookClub meetings:
Travis posted a new comment on Schlafly Global Book Discussion Group topic: "2020 Reading List"
As promised, here's the list of our titles for the coming year.

1/23/2020: Severance - Ling Ma (China)
2/27/2020: Solar Bones - Mike McCormack (Ireland)
3/26/2020: In the Beginning Was the Sea - Tomas Gonzalez (Colombia)
4/23/2020: Go - Kazuki Kaneshiro (Japan)
5/28/2020: Skylark - Dezső Kosztolányi (Hungary)
6/25/2020: The Rainbow Troops - Andrea Hirata (Indonesia)
7/23/2020: Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria)
8/27/2020: Small Country - Gael Faye (Rwanda)
9/24/2020: Bright - Duanwad Pimwana (Thailand)
10/22/2020: Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis (Mexico)
11/19/2020: The Wind That Lays Waste - Selva Almada (Argentina)
Lawrence H. Keeley  War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
Zadie Smith  Feel Free: Essays
Rivka Galchen  The Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Edward Wilson-Lee   The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
Doug Lansky  There's No Toilet Paper...on the Road Less Traveled
J Ryan Stradal  Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Lawrence H. Keeley  War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Archival Nominations List from all past years
A partial listing of books nominated over the years...
2019Nominations
2018 nominations
2017nominations.htm
2016nominations.htm
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2011 Nominations
    January Nominations for discussion on Jan 9 or 16 hosted by Lisa Huxley
Date: November 14, 2010 7:56:56 PM CST

5 6 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
3 The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
3 The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
4 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5 4 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

February Nominations February 13 @ Mary Ellen Vallorani

10 4 The Help
4 The Great Migration The Warmth of other Suns
13 9 The Age of Wonder The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage) by Richard Holmes (Paperback - Mar 2, 2010)

March Nominations March 20 @ Genie Bonte
9 9 Hippocrates Shadow David Newman
5 The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad
3 Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
6 Crazy: a fathers search through America's
mental health madness Pete Early
9 7 The worst hard time Timothy Egan

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2010 Nominations January Nominations
7 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise
6 Jonathan Alter Defining Moment The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter (Paperback - May 8, 2007)

February Nominations
7 8 Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan (Paperback - April 8, 2008) 5 xx Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Hardcover - May 26, 2006)
9 6 The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter (Paperback - May 8, 2007)
5 x Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (Hardcover - Feb 10, 2009)

March Nominations March 14 @ Bonte
8 11 Double Negative by David Carkeet
5 x Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
5 x Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
5 xx The Definining Moment by Jonathan Alter
6 4 Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

April Nominations April 11 @ Rich Nolte
14 9 Tippett Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett (Paperback - Feb. 23, 2010)
1 00 Zane Wildfire
11 3 Crumb Genesis 00 00
xxx 00 00 Kamran
The 00 00 Margaret I [[[ somehow this was also some April voting or NOT:
13 12 The Definining Moment by Jonathan Alter
7 xx Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet
11 5 Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann ]]]

May Nominations May 2 Lisa Huxley
David Carkeet From Away


July Nominations July ?? xx
8 5 6 5 The Help XXX
10 2 The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces [Paperback]
8 5 6 7 Anna Karenina XXX 0 0

August NOMINATIONS for August 22
12 8 Biography of the Bible Karen Armstrong
The book Thief Markus Zusak
13 6 The House at Sugar Beach Helen Cooper

September Nominations SATURDAY Sept 11 Marian Rosen and Jon Goldberg
2 Louis menand. The metaphysical club
9 9 Mary ann schaffer The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
1 Michael Lewis liars poker
3 Stiglitz, sen and Fatuci. Mismeasuring our lives
3 Jeanette walls. The glass castle
4 2 Helene Cooper the house at sugar beach

October Nominations Oct 24
00 00 Michael Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
    Chosen Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    
Yoko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback - Feb 3, 2009)
Sonia Nazario Enrique's Journey (Paperback - Jan 2, 2007)

November Nominations Nov 14 Alice Adcock 14
13 6 Xxx. The house at sugar beach
9. 5 Xxx. The housekeeper and the professor
Xxx. The help

December Nominations Dec ??
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Vintage) (Paperback)
David Eagleman

Zookeepers Wife Diana Ackerman
Flash Frames Don Marsh

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from 2007

Jan 2007 - Jan 21
17 13 The End of Faith Sam Harris
10 The March E L Doctorow
1 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
10 3 My Sister's Keeper Jody Picoult

Feb 2007 Feb 11 9 9 The March E L Doctorow 5 Snow Orhan Pamuk 3 Just above my Head James Baldwin 11 6 White Teeth Zadie Smith

Nominations for March 2007
11 3 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7 3 Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrow
17 11 Snow Orhan Pamuk
2 The History of Everything Bill Bryson
Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (Paperback) and seems to have been published in 1975-06-01.
Here's a bit of a description: From the Publisher This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation. About the Author Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Peking, China, when the Japanese military under wartime pressure rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Two and a half years later they were released. Shantung Compound is based on a journal Dr. Gilkey kept during his imprisonment. The Faith Club by

April 22
9 7 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6 5 The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
5 Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (Paperback) by Langdon Gilkey
3 Julian by Gore Vidal

May Nomination
3 Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (Paperback) by Langdon Gilkey
5 YeYe's House by Evelina Chow
6 4 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
4 The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan 3 O Henry Prize Stories 2006
7 8 The History of Everything by Bill Bryson

June Nominations
4 Will Eisner Contract With God
8 8 Daniel Woodrell Winter's Bone
8 9 6 Elif Shafar The Bastard of Istanbul
17 12 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

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 from 2006 Nominations

January 2006
5 2 Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
2 Stiffed : The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi (Paperback)
10 8 Aging Well by George Vaillant
3 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

February Nominations
6 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
13 10 The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
7 5 White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Nominations for March 12 2006
 12 Book 12 8 Collapse by Jared Diamond
2 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 16 10 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
6 Stiffed by Susan Faludi

April nominations 23rd
11 8 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
9 7 Plot against America Philip Roth
7 White Teeth Zadie Smith
4 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare

May Nominations
9 5 White Teeth Zadie Smith
11 6 Collapse Jared Diamond
2 Plot against America Philip Roth
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

June Nominations
14 9 Philip Roth The Plot Against America
9 6 Shakespeare Julius Caesar
6 Michael Walzer Just and Unjust Wars

July Nominations
6 1 Jane Jacobs Life and Death in American Cities
5 Michael Walzer Just and Unjust Wars
Henry James The Awkward Age
12 9 John Steinbeck Cannery Row

August
Mark Twain The Gilded Age September Books suggested from various sources for nominations:
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford professor
Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, another San Francisco Bay Area author.

 The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover) by Thomas L. Friedman
Rebecca Pawel Death of a Nationalist
Naomi Ragen http://www.naomiragen.com

September Nominations
5 The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman
4 Dark Continent Mark Mazower
10 10 Just and Unjust Wars Michael Walzer
9 8 Wild Grass Ian Johnson
8 Saturday Ian McEwan

October Nominations
9 5 Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
8 6 Wild Grass Ian Johnson
5 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev

November Nominations 26th
15 10 The Stranger Albert Camus
5 The Dress Lodger Sherruy Holman
14 7 Driving Mr Albert Miachael Paterniti
Never Let Me Go Isuguru
The March E L Doctorow

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from 2005
Nominations for Sept 18th
6 7 Lily Tuck Siam
4 Nadine Gordimer July’s People
4 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Sachs "It is still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a small village, Nthandire,
11 8 Thomas Frank What’s the Matter With Kansas
3 Joyce Carol Oates The Falls
2 Bruce Murkuff Water Born

Nominations for Oct 23
16 15 Carlos Fuentes Old Gringo
8 George Valient Aging Well
7 Caryl Phillip Distant Shore
10 9 Nadine Gordimer July’s People
 
Nominations for Nov
4 My Traders Heart by Ryan Milan
8 6 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
15 11 Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
7 Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
 
Nominations for Dec
 Author
Pinter, Harold, 1930-  Celebration ; &, The room / Harold Pinter.
Published London : Faber, 2000.
 
cf random house and modern library and counter culture 100 best novels of 20th c (top several were Ayn Rand books)

Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny & criticism by Shaun Carroll

Sunday, February 27, 2005 16:19:56
11 6 John Steineck Cannery Row
15 16 Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man
2 James Bradley Flyboys
7 Monica Ali Brick Lane
7 Hunter Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

BookClub Ideas
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/

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Nominations
Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925 by Mabel Cabot

[[[The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia by James Charles Roy, Roy (Paperback)
Vanished Kingdoms: Irish in Australia and New Zealand by Patrick O'Farrell ]]]

Same Sex Unions in PreModern Europe by John Boswell
The Fortress of Solitude : A Novel by JONATHAN LETHEM
7 3 Everythiing is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer


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Not yet Nominated, but mentioned
The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Sheri Holm

The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- by Jane Jacobs

Hidden : A Novel by Paul Jaskunas

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/read/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-345-44282-2
and its reading guide: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0345472098&view=rg

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Sunday, November 14, 2004 15:42:50
for January 30
3 Flatland by Abbott
11 12 The Great Influenza by John M Barry
15 4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
3 Corporate Warriors by P W Singer

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Sunday, December 12, 2004 16:46:57
nominations for February

13 9 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
13 12 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
8 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
7 Reporting the Universe by E L Doctorow


Augustan Magical Thinking;

E L Doctorow Reporting the Universe a work related to our memories of favorite childhood books and reading; a politics and metaphysic of our nation, a perceptive recall of some of our greatest literature.