MobileRead April 2016 Book Club Nominations

[issybird]

Thanks, Charlie.

Here's a potted description of The White Tiger from Wikipedia:

The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year.[1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
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...the novel examines issues of religion, caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India

[bfisher]

I'll third Murphy by Samuel Beckett

[CRussel]

OK, I'll use my last nomination to nominate A Cold Day for Murder, the first book in one of my all time favourite mystery series, the Kate Shugack series of Alaskan mysteries from Dana Stabenow. This was an Edgar Award winner in 1992 as a paperback original, and a delightful read.

Originally Posted by Dana Stabenow

It’s December in the Park, and a ranger is missing. It’s no great loss to the rest of the Park rats, they figure he’s stumbled into a snowbank and will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the ground to thaw and them to bury him. But when the man sent to look for him also disappears, Kate Shugak, ex-investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and Park homesteader, is sent in search of them both.
First in the Kate Shugak series. Yes, this is the one that was lost for two years in my father’s garage and went on to win the Edgar award.

Originally Posted by Amazon

Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage DA’s department must turn to their reluctant former investigator, Kate Shugak. Shugak knows The Park because she’s of The Park, an Aleut who left her home village of Niniltna to pursue education, a career, and justice in an unjust world. Kate’s search for the missing men will take her from self-imposed exile back to a life she’d left behind, and face-to-face with people and problems she'd hoped never to confront again.

This book is FREE, and a mere 175 pages! To Jon's concern, it's relatively modern (1992), and to my concern, it's a great read with interesting characters, a venue and culture that are not my own, and perhaps most importantly, I think we'll all enjoy it.

Available FREE, in ePub or Mobi format, DRM and Geo-restriction free, from the author's own web site, Stabenow.com

Direct from Amazon US, also Free and DRM-Free. Whisper-Sync enabled.

Amazon UK (Free and DRM-Free) )Also Whisper-Sync enabled)

From Kobo (US), also Free and DRM-Free.

From Audible, as a Whisper-Sync version for $1.99, and excellently read by Marguerite Gavin.

From Audible UK, for £2.99 as a Whisper-Sync version, same narrator.

[Dazrin]

I will second Red Mars and Cold Day for Murder.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'd like to nominate Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's won a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1994, 1997).

Just to clarify the second and third books, Green Mars and Blue Mars, won the Locus Award in 1994 and 1997 respectively, but Red Mars was only short listed for the Locus Award (in 1993).

Red Mars did win some other awards though so it is still a good nomination; BSFA in 1992, Nebula Award in 1994, and was nominated/short listed for the Hugo, Clarke, and Locus Awards in 1993.

I wish availability/cost was better for the others; my library has two different audio versions of The White Tiger, but no e-book. None of the others are available at all.

[Dazrin]

I have heard many good things about this and it has been on my To Be Read list for over a year now, so I will nominate The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Amazon / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Kobo / B&N / Overdrive

The work was serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006, published as a book in 2008 and became one of the most popular science fiction novels in China. It received the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award in 2006. A film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release in July 2016.

An English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. It won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.

Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.

This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

[GA Russell]

I nominate the 1983 winner of the National Book Award for History...

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlan and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

I suspect that readers of today will see parallels between the politics of the '30s and the politics of this year's presidential race.

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Protest...dp/B005DB6SCA/

B&N nook
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/voic...ley/1102301827

Kobo
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ces-of-protest

[JSWolf]

I will second The Three Body Problem.

[Luffy]

I third Red Mars, please.

[bfisher]

I second Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlan and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

[issybird]

Third Voices of Protest.

[JSWolf]

I will third Hominids once Three Body Problem has been thirded.

[WT Sharpe]

I'll third A Cold Day for Murder. Love a good mystery.

[BenG]

I will third Three Body Problem.

[issybird]

Looking for a third for The White Tiger!

[JSWolf]

I will third Hominids.