Slate for 2026-2027!
November 30, 2026: Stoner, John Williams
January 4, 2027 (shifted from Dec. 28): Eventide, Kent Haruf
January 25, 2027: Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
February 22, 2027: How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith
March 22, 2027: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
April 26, 2027: Apeirogon, Colum McCann
May 24, 2027: The Memory of Old Jack, Wendell Berry
June 28, 2027: Middlemarch, George Elliot
July 26, 2027: A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
August 23, 2027: Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
September 27, 2027: Silence, Shusaku Endo
October 25, 2027: BOOK PICKING NIGHT!
Pitches (vote count in parenthesis)
Middlemarch, George Elliott - Kathy (29)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Katherine (23)
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison - Julie (6)
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury - Steph (18)
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway - Gayle (14)
Pitches for Re-Read - two slots
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson - Karen (16)
Stoner, John Williams - Katherine (20)
Lolita, Nabokov - Julie (17)
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell - Connie (20)
Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - Steph (17)
General (in which classics were eligible, but re-reads were not)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Katherine (28)
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison - Julie (12)
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury - Steph (48)
Anxious People, Frederick Backman - Karen (16)
The Memory of Old Jake, Wendell Berry - Kathy (59)
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan - Katherine (39)
Deacon King Kong, James McBride - Kerry (11)
Eventide, Kent Haruf - Julie (24)
The Women, Kristen Hannah - Connie (14)
Silence, Shusaku Endo - Steph (34)
Theo of Golden, Allen Levi - Gayle (16)
How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith - Karen (28)
Apeirogon, Colum McCann - Julie (28)
Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese - Connie (8)
Also Mentioned But Not Pitched
Dracula, Bram Stoker - new audio book production - only on Audible - cast with professional actors and original soundtrack - Steph
The Stationary Shop of Tehran, Marjan Kamali - Kerry
The Bitter Angels, Michael Shaara - Julie - Gettysburg
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Robert Kolker - Julie - Schizophrenia
