Old Books, New Readers discussion

Spring is in the air !!!! For the month of May, let us nominate books were the author's last name begin with the letter "A". I look forward to seeing the nominations.

Here is a list of the previous books we have read in this group to make sure your nomination has not been a previous Book of the Month:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Rules
1. One nomination per person.
2. Poll will be set up when we reach 6 valid nominations.
3. Nominations should have been first published earlier than April 1974.
4. It would be great if you could share why you want to read this book.
5. To get a wider variety of selections, the nominations may be limited to one book per author.

Enjoy Reading,
La Tonya 📚

Mmmm! Hope you are keeping well Tonya and enjoying all your reading!

May I nominate

The A.B.C. Murders (1936) - Agatha Christie 232pp


When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.

There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body.

Often considered to be one of Agatha Christie's best.

I'd like to nominate Lucky Jim (first publ. 1954) by Kingsley Amis.

"The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university." (Wikipedia)

Jazzy wrote: "Mmmm! Hope you are keeping well Tonya and enjoying all your reading!

May I nominate

The A.B.C. Murders (1936) - Agatha Christie 232pp
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The last name needs to begin with the letter "A"; therefore, this selection does not qualify. Enjoy Reading,
La Tonya 📚

Aw. Okay then i will pick

Born Free (1960) - Joy Adamson

Written the year I was born, I love this book so much I named my first cat Elsa. I've chosen the 50th anniversary edition.

First published in 1960 and closely followed by a hit movie of the same name, Joy Adamson's now classic memoir Born Free continues to introduce countless young people to the wildlife of Africa. Adamson recounts her adventures as the surrogate mother of an orphaned lion cub named Elsa (with parenting duties shared by her husband George and by a delightfully imperturbable rock hyrax named Pati), whom she raised as a welcome member of her human and animal family while painstakingly teaching Elsa the skills she would need to survive in the wild.
Long targeted to preteen readers, Born Free is in fact a sophisticated work of environmental consciousness-raising, for Joy Adamson believed that any relationship between humans and wild animals had to be conditioned by an attitude "of absolute equality quite different from that between a dog and his master."

Jazzy wrote: "Aw. Okay then i will pick

Born Free (1960) - Joy Adamson

Written the year I was born, I love this book so much I named my first cat Elsa. I've chosen the 50th ann..."

Excellent Choice. Enjoy Reading,
La Tonya 📚

I'd like to nominate The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis. Everyone says it's a really funny book

Watership Down
By Richard Adams 1975
I’ve had this on my want to read list for years.
Let’s get to it!

I would like to nominate Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Maureen wrote: "I would like to nominate Mansfield Park by Jane Austen."

We have read Mansfield Park in this group. Can you nominate another book? Enjoy Reading, 📚

How about Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler.

Maureen wrote: "How about Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler."

A fantastic choice. Thank You. Enjoy Reading, 📚