Bookclub Nominations Thread

Never Let Me Go is great. Definitely one of my favorites

I like the book cover so gets my vote

Edit: other guys recommendation for Stoner By John Willaims is also good

This book fricked me bad. I want to reread it.

what is it about ?

lol Stoner was a fricking loser, glad he died miserable

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world

Sounds good!

A world undone

I reaaaaally want to learn german if only to read that book in the original.

Don Quixote?