1001 Group Read Nominations: April and May, 2012

It's time for the April and May group read nominations!

Remember the rules:
1) Nominate up to 2 books that you would like to read.
2) Second as many books as you like.
3) All books that receive a second will go into the voting. The web site for voting will be posted when the nominations are over. You can vote for as many books as you like in the poll. In the event of a tie, there will be a run-off vote.

Nominations will take place for the next week and will close at midnight, Sunday, March 11th. Have fun and enjoy.

I'll nominate two from my TBR pile--The Human Stain and Foundation.

I'm looking forward to your nominations.

Also, be sure to check out the string for the 1001 Group Read: March--Cat's Eye.

I'll nominate All the Pretty Horses and The Mysteries of Udolpho.

On the 12/12/12 Challenge thread there is a current group read going on for Foundation by Asimov.

Human Stain or All the Pretty Horses look good though...

the Foundation group read is in the 12 in 12 group.

After the discussions on the chunkster post, I'd like to nominate Middlemarch and The Magus - both staring at me from Mount TBR.

I'd like to second All the Pretty Horses and Middlemarch

BTW, I'll second The Human Stain.

Looking through the chunksters I already own:

Don Quixote
A Fine Balance

I'll second The Mysteries of Udolpho.

A Don Quixote year-long group read is going on in the 12 in 12 group right now. FYI

Looking through the chunksters I already own:

Don Quixote
A Fine Balance

Tania - whether it's selected or not, whenever you read A Fine Balance, I will hold your hand. It took me a few years to recover from that devastating story, but I survived and am a better person for it. You can survive it too.

10 - Totally agree. It is a great story but man, it stays with you forever.

I do believe there is a Middlemarch group read lined up in the 12/12/12 thread but I haven't seen anything for The Magus so that might be a good choice (and another one I have on the shelf staring at me)

The Middlemarch group read is in August in the 12 in 12 group.

I think I'll still be reading Middlemarch in April so...

If we want to pick others, Bleak House pops to mind.

#10 & #11> All of a sudden, I just want to get A Fine Balance out of the house! ;)

#9> If there's already a G.R. for Don Quixote happening elsewhere, and since no one has seconded it, does anyone mind if I change my nomination?

A Fine Balance is a fantastic, utterly heartbreaking book. Loved it but I don't think I'll read it again any time soon.

NONE of you are helping with my nomination of A Fine Balance. ;)

Note, I'm keeping that as a nomination (although at this rate, I don't think anyone will be seconding it); it's Don Quixote that I was thinking of changing, as there's a group read happening elsewhere.

I'll second A Fine Balance. I was considering this as my book club pick; from the sounds of it, thank goodness I didn't! And I'll second Bleak House, since I am already reading it : )

I'd like to nominate The Corrections - it has been on my bookshelf for way too long and I need some incentive to crack it open.

I'd like to nominate The Quiet American and Kafka on the Shore :)

I'll second The Corrections. It keeps popping up on my TBR list month after month and I've been having a hard time mustering up the energy for it.

I'll also second Kafka on the Shore.

I'd like to second All the Pretty Horses and would like to nominate The Kindly Ones.

I will third A Fine Balance and nominate Kafka on the Shore since Murakami is one of those writers I resolved to tackle this year.

I'll second Kafka on the Shore....we're going to have quite a few to vote on this time.

>17 I think A Fine Balance would make a fantastic book club pick, as long as you have a group that can handle something a bit heavy. It absolutely stays with you, as others have said, and it's a book that changed how I think and got me out of my Western-trained brain for awhile. I loved it and recommend it often.

I think I'm thirding, but I've been meaning to get to Kafka on the shore and The Human Stain for ages, so I'll weigh in on those.

I've got that niggling 'time to read another Murakami' feeling.

A Fine Balance is what started my obsession with India books - all of Rushdie's books, A Suitable Boy... once you start, you can't stop.

I'm actually making a decent bit of headway in Middlemarch right now, so I might finish before April... but if it's picked for the April/May book, I'll happily participate in the discussion.

>23 I am looking forward to reading A Fine Balance even more now. My book club is a group of light weights...my last pick, Blindness, supposedly gave some of them nightmares. I thought it was fantastic and I thought that a group of strangers united and making the best of the horrible circumstances was provoking and uplifting - but they couldn't get past the violence.

>25 Have you read the God of Small Things? Another great India book.