Ahhh: May. Time to hit the beach or the pool. School’s getting out. There’s a long weekend waiting for you at the end of the month. It really is the start of something grand.
It is also SOC Sista Book Club Pitch month. Regulars around here know how this goes. If you’re new(er), you can check out our process here.
Here’s the long list. Let me know which ones are your must-reads. I’ll post the short list when we have it!
A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun by Sister Monica Clare
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Hag-seed by Margret Atwood
James by Percival Everette
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Milkman by Anna Burns
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
North Woods by Daniel Mason
One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Seek My Face by John Updike
Shy Creatures by Clair Chambers
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Consequence of Anna by Kate Birkin
The Elements by John Boyne
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Names by Florence Knapp
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing by Gail Lukasik
You Are Here by David Nicholls
Come back to see the short list of the books we selected!
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