21st Century Literature discussion

Nominations are now open until November 30th for the January 2024 Open Pick.

Nominating guidelines:
- Fiction (original & translation, if applicable) first published between January 1, 2000 and January 1, 2023. 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 January 1st

I nominate When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (published in January 2000).

Someone has to have another nomination, I hope? Anyone have one to add?

I nominate Babak Lakghomi's South.

I nominate Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Nidhi wrote: "I nominate Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."

Thanks - that one is fine (but only because of the 2016 Dalkey Archive edition - the Europa Editions would have been slightly too recent).

Bill wrote: "I nominate Babak Lakghomi's South."

I think that one was first published after January 2023 so won't be allowed for a few more months

Hugh wrote: "I think that one was first published after January 2023 so won't be allowed for a few more months"

Oops sorry!

I nominated this once and disqualified it once. I renominate God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories Arinze Ifeakandu with respect to David and on its own merits.

Nominations are now closed, The poll will be up shortly.

The poll is up here and will run until December 7th

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Thanks, Hugh!

Looks like When We Were Orphans won the poll!

Greg, are you up for moderating the discussion?

@Marc, sure thing, is it ok though that I'll be reading this book for the first time along with the group? I haven't read it before.

Always Greg! I think that's more the norm than people reading it before nominating.

What Bretnie said.

I always nominate books I haven't yet read!

Great! Then I'm happy to moderate the discussion. Looking forward to it!

Is there a Moderator Pick for January? I am not seeing a thread for one.

No, we are only doing one group read per month now.

Oh, I missed that! I will have to join you in February then. I’ve already read the Ishiguro, and although I love him and loved it, I don’t think I would voluntarily reread it.