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Results
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the winner! We can’t wait for our first discussion on Saturday, July 18th, 2020! Check out the details and full reading schedule here.
Welcome to our next book selection vote! The winner will be our book club read for July! If you’ve been reading with us, we hope you enjoyed Educated by Tara Westover and are excited to vote on our next read. If you’re just joining us, welcome to the Quill Quotes Book Club! We’re excited to read with you!
Genre Vote Results
Classics won the genre vote this month! There are so many classics on our to read lists so we’re excited to cross one off with you!
The Choices
We’ve selected five possible classic books for our fourth book club read! Check them out and then vote for those you’re interested in reading with us below. The book with the most votes wins, so you can cross your fingers and vote for only your favorite or hedge your bets and vote for your top choices. If there’s a tie, we’ll pick… If we’re tied, we’ll flip a coin!
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. [Read more]
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. [Read more]
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Few creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. [Read more]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The very first collection of stories featuring the astute sleuth and his loyal assistant, Dr. Watson. In these twelve ingenious mysteries, Holmes is embroiled in betrayal, abduction, thievery, deception, and murder. [Read more]
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. [Read more]
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Voting closes on the morning of Sunday 7/5, with the winner to be announced later that day!
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