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The theme for February is saints. As always, this is completely open to interpretation: as long as you can tell us why you think it should fit the theme, it counts.

Please nominate only one book and ensure you either link the book or give the name of the author as well to avoid confusion. You can second someone else's nomination, but that will count as your own. Nominations cannot have been chosen for a past group read (past buddy reads are fine).

This thread will be closed at the end of December (we're doing a shorter than usual nomination thread this time, so that we can adjust the schedule to get the polls up earlier), and we will choose ten books for the poll. If there are more than ten books nominated, we will choose the ten most nominated. If there is still a tie to get into the top ten, we'll go back to the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ average rating to see which is highest.

I nominate Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel! Fits the theme because author's name includes Saint

I nominate Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.

From enotes study guide-
Taking the form of a first-person memoir, Fifth Business is the life story of Dunstable (later Dunstan) Ramsay, a retired school teacher whose life has been guided by the conviction that there are saints in the contemporary time period, and that his childhood neighbor is one such person.

I second station eleven!

I third Station Eleven!

I nominate Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett - both 'saint' and 'sin' in the name of the book!

I'd like to nominate Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I loved The Little Prince and have read it in both French and English - the only book in French I've ever been able to make it through, and would love to read more of his work.

From the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ description:
"Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying."

Just a couple more days to get these nominations in!

I vote West of Sunset mostly because people who are literary geniuses should be considered saints and West of Sunset is about F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I am recomending When The Saints / Sarah Mian. It is a new book to be published in January 2015. Amazon has both a paperback and a kindle edition.

From Amazon
"Is it possible to redeem a family name that has been spoken as a curse word for generations?

A decade after being cast off to live with strangers, Tabby Saint returns to Solace River, Nova Scotia, to find her childhood home deserted. She quickly latches on to the lonely tavern-keeper, West, who informs her that her family was run out of town. Tabby heads out to nearby Jubilant to find the fragments of her family: her addict sister, Poppy, and her two young kids; her brothers, Bird and Jackie, one crippled by a vicious attack and the other holding a dangerous grudge against the men responsible; a threadbare version of the bulletproof mother she remembers; and an ailing father, a man so vile he is unworthy of forgiveness even on his deathbed. Irreverent and mouthy as they ever were, the Saints are still a lightning rod for trouble. When a new storm arises, Tabby must choose whether to stay or run back the way she came.

Original, gut-wrenching and incessantly hilarious, When the Saints is the story of a family of outsiders whose redemption might be found in what they longed to escape: each other."

Sanctus by Simon Toyne


An explosive apocalyptic conspiracy thriller from a major new British talent that will set the world alight�

REVELATION OR DEVASTATION?

The certainties of the modern world are about to be blown apart by a three thousand year-old conspiracy nurtured by blood and lies �

A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world.
But few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, it is what they have been waiting for. The cowled and secretive fanatics that live in the Citadel suspect it could mean the end of everything they have built � and they will kill, torture and break every law to stop that. For Liv Adamsen, New York crime reporter, it begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity.
And at that journey's end lies a discovery that will change EVERYTHING �
SANCTUS is an apocalyptic conspiracy thriller like no other � it re-sets the bar for excitement and fascination, and marks the debut of a major talent in Simon Toyne.

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