The Rory Gilmore Book Club discussion

Hi, Rory group members. It's almost the end of the year and thus it's time again to vote for our 2012 reading list. What we need you to do is nominate *SIX* classics and *SIX* modern books from the official WB reading list to make up our book selections for the whole of next year. 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 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 books from the main list that we have yet to read as a group. Nominate your six from this list. The voting will end one month from today on December 25, 2011.



• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• 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
• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• 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 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

1) Brick Lane by Monica Ali
2) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
3) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4) Oracle Night by Paul Auster
5) Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
6) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

1) A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
2) Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
4) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
6) The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Fat Land by Greg Critser
Property by Valerie Martin
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Unless by Carol Shields

1)Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
2)Oracle Night by Paul Auster
3)Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
4)The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
5)Brick Lane by Monica Ali
6)When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Old School by Tobias Wolff
3. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
4. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
5. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
6. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

1: Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
2: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
3: The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
4: How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
5: Old School by Tobias Wolff
6: Property by Valerie Martin

1.Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
2.Songbook by Nick Hornby
3.Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
4.Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
5.How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
6.Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

1. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
2. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
5. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

1. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
2. Songbook by Nick Hornby
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
5. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
6. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

1)Quattrocento by James McKean
2)Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
3)Oracle Night by Paul Auster
4)The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
5)A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

1)Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
2) Extravagance by Gary Krist
3)The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
4)The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
5)My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
3. Small Island by Andrea Levy
4. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
5. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
6. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
4. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
5. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
6. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Red Tent
The Song of Names
Autobiography of a Face
Old School
When the Emperor Was Divine

1.The Opposite of Fate
2. When the Emperor was Divine
3. Empire Falls
4. The Fortress of Solitude
5. Autobiography of a Face
6. Fatland

1) Truth and Beauty
2) The Song Reader
3) Small Island
4) Empire Falls
5)Brick Lane
6) When the Emperor Was Divine

1. Autobiography of a Face
2. Seabiscuit
3. The Song Reader
4. Truth & Beauty
5. Unless
6. Oracle Night

Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
Fat Land by Greg Critser
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Songbook by Nick Hornby

(Hoping you'll accept my day-late vote in the Spirit of Christmas!)
1) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2) The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
3) Old School by Tobias Wolff
4) The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
5) Oracle Night by Paul Auster
6) Songbook by Nick Hornsby

You were just in time, julie :)

Nominations are now closed.