Here (so belatedly) are the books for the 2020-2021 year, with the dates, that Connie assigned and emailed back in October. Just putting it here for your convenient reference. I've also added these to the Google Calendar in the upper right corner of our site.
11/30 -- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (15/4 + 4/2)
1/4 -- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (268/85 + available)
1/25 -- Dessa Rose, Sherley Anne Williams (available)
2/22 -- The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (462/88 + 120/27)
3/22 -- Blindness, Jose Saramago (23/12 + 3/1)
4/26 -- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett (1200/168 + 154/31)
5/24 -- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (21/5 + 7/1)
6/28 -- In the Time of the Butterflies, Julie Alvarez (19/15 + 3/1)
7/26 -- The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa (52/13 + 11/4)
8/23 -- Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng (246/169 + available)
9/27 -- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson (348/31 + 20/17 & book club set 1/1 )
This includes the availability information that Connie gathered and provided in her email. As she described, the numbers in parentheses show current holds/copies at both Henn Co + St Paul Public libraries.
Edited 10/13/22 to add: And here is the full list of pitches and votes:
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin - pitched by Ruth (5)
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson - pitched by Steph (18)
Walden, Henry David Thoreau - pitched by Katherine (0)
Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve - pitched by Suzanne (7)
WHEREAS Poems, Layli Long Soldier - pitched by Suzanne (1)
The Star and the Shamrock, Jean Granger - pitched by Susan (4 )
1984, George Orwell - pitched by Katherine (0)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - pitched by Steph (12)
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nahisi Coates - pitched by Karen (10)
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral, Mary Doria Russell - pitched by Karen (12)
The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald - pitched by Suzanne (16)
The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon - pitched by Ruth (7 )
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris - pitched by Susan (15)
The Leavers, Lisa Ko - pitched by Kerry (17)
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett - pitched by Ruth or Karen (27)
The Memory Policy: A Novel, by Yoko Ogawa - pitched by Steph (19)
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe - pitched by Kathy (13)
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke - pitched by Katherine (9)
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys - pitched by Steph (12)
The Vegetarian, Han Kang - pitched by Kerry (8)
King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschuler - pitched by Kathy (9)
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson - pitched by Susan (10)
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi - pitched by Susan (8)
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng - pitched by Katherine or Connie (24)
Dessa Rose, Sherley Anne Williams - pitched by Kathy (23)
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins - pitched by Julie (7)
In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez - pitched by Connie (19)
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami - pitched by Julie (25)
On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong - pitched by Katherine (20)
Blindness, Jose Saramago - pitched by Connie (22)
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead - pitched by Julie (21)
