The Rory Gilmore Book Club discussion

Okay, gang, here's the latest... we moderators have had extensive discussions and this is what we decided on: due to popular demand we will continue to have monthly books from the Original WB Rory Book Club list. However, we will be nominating all 12 books for the year now.

So, what we need you to do is nominate *SIX* classics and *SIX* modern books. Please list each six in order of most wanted on down. The top six of each will be the selections for the year. The moderators will together decide which book for which month and post the list before the new year. Please understand that if you do not nominate six in each that you will not be voting for all the months of the year. That is your choice, but you only get one vote per month this time, so I recommend using them all.

Below is the list of the modern titles from the main list that we have yet to read as a group. Nominate your six from this list. The voting will end Saturday the 26th (Boxing Day).

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Extravagance by Gary Krist
• Fat Land by Greg Critser
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
• The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Unless by Carol Shields
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Happy voting!

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Namesake

The Bielski Brothers

Small Island

Stiff

Oracle Night

1. Quattrocento
2. Just a Couple of Days
3. Nervous System
4. Extravagance
5. The Song of Names
6. Stiff

1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
2.Quattrocento by James McKean
3.Small Island by Andrea Levy
4.When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
5.The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
6.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

I seem to have developed an Asian taste in my reading...

Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Quattrocento, McKean.
Sacred Time A Novel, Hegi.
When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka.
Nervous System Or, Losing My Mind in Literature, Jensen.
The Kitchen Boy A Novel of the Last Tsar, Alexander.
The Song of Names, Lebrecht.

1. Empire Falls
2. Life of Pi
3. The Five People You Meet In Heaven
4. Bee Season
5. Extravagance
6. When the Emperor Was Divine

1 Oryx and Crake
2 Quattrocento
3 A Confederacy of Dunces
4 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
5 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
6 The Red Tent

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

1.The Namesake
2.Oryx and Crake
3.Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
4.The Kitchen Boy
5.A Confederacy of Dunces
6.Property

I will do my best to be able to join in as many discussions as possible this year! :)


• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

1. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
2. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Quattrocento by James McKean
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

I'm rather ashamed to admit that I hadn't heard of most of these titles. So this list is made up of the titles which jumped out at me which I then looked up :)

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Stiff by Mary Roach
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

1) Bel Canto
2) Seabiscuit
3) The Namesake
4) Devil in the White City
5) Five People You Meet in Heaven
6) Fortress of Solitude

This upcoming year, I vow to read, not collect, more books. Therefore, my decisions have been strongly influenced by the books I have on my shelves that I have not read.

My nominations:
1. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
3. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
4. Stiff by Mary Roach
5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
6. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Albom
3. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Holman
4. The Devil in the White City by Larson
5. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
6. Fat Land by Critser

1 Songbook
2 The Bielski Brothers
3 The Namesake
4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
5 The Song of Names
6 My Life in Orange

(and I might be deluded, but didn't we read The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters in 2008?)

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
5. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
6. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

1. Life of Pi
2. My life in orange
3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran
5. Rescuing Patty Hearst
6. The Namesake

1. Reading Lolita in Tehran
2. The Song Reader
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
4. The Red Tent
5. The Bielski Brothers
6. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

1. The Lovely Bones
2. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
3. Empire Falls
4. A Quiet Storm
5. My Sister's Keeper
6. A Confederacy of Dunces

Bee Season
Songbook
God of Small Things
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Kitchen Boy

1- The Devil in the White City
2- The Opposite of Fate
3- A Confederacy of Dunces
4- Stiff
5- Oryx and Crake
6- Songbook

Deborah is right -- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters was read in September 2008 and should not be on the nominations list.

1. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

"Deborah is right -- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters was read in September 2008 and should not be on the nominations list."

That's right. Michele has edited it.

1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
6. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Thanks, Dini and Michele.

• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Balzac & The Little Chinese Seamstress
Bel Canto
Oryx & Crake
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Fortress of Solitude
The Kitchen Boy

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
3. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
6. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

1. a confederacy of dunces
2. autobiography of a face
3. balzac and the little chinese seamstress
4. brick lane
5. how to breathe underwater
6. songbook

1. Oryx and Crake
2. Empire Falls
3. Truth & Beauty
4. Songbook
5. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
6. The Song Reader

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Oracle Night
The Devil in the White City
The God of Small Things
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Kite Runner
Empire Falls

Voting is closed.