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Nominations are now open until June 22nd for the August 2020 Open Pick.

Nominating guidelines:
- Fiction (original & translation, if applicable) first published between January 1, 2000 and August 1, 2019. For translations the latter date must be an English edition.
- One nomination per person (please do not nominate or vote for a book unless you are certain you can read and discuss if it wins)
- A book this group has not yet read (see the group bookshelf or the Index of all Group Reads here)
- A book that is not better suited to the wild card (genre) category

If you are nominating, please begin your post by stating "I nominate [name with hyperlink to book]"

The discussion will start on August 1st

I nominate The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq

I've never read Houellebecq before--don't know if this is a good place to start or not, but I have a copy handy

A book in the hand is worth... Well, it's more likely to be read than the book not in the hand. (How's that for a pithy statement?!!)

The group has not read any Houellebecq yet either---good pick!

Tomorrow is the last day for nominations - I wasn't going to nominate because I have a moderator pick coming up in August too, but I may change my mind and throw one in tomorrow.

I nominate Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. This was the 2015 Giller Prize (Canada) winner and has been on my shelf since 2015. Time it got read.

LindaJ^ wrote: "I nominate Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. This was the 2015 Giller Prize (Canada) winner and has been on my shelf since 2015. Time it got read."

Ha! This has also been on my shelf since 2015. I second this nomination.

Thanks Linda

Just because I'd like to reread it, I will nominate The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

Counternarratives by John Keene

never mind, i see you've read it, you smart people

OK, nominations are now closed, and the poll is up here:
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Fifteen Dogs wins the poll

Just got this one out of the library. It looks so weird and interesting! I'm very excited!

The Winter Vault will be my August moderator pick.

I guess I'd better start reading Fifteen Dogs! I have it in audio and paper. I'll start the audio as soon as I finish The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.