21st Century Literature discussion

Last year, the jury for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction selected three books for consideration, but the committee refused to award the prize to any of them. Our group has read two of those three books (The Pale King and Swamplandia!). Now we are completing the trifecta by selecting Train Dreams as one of our June reads.

It's been nominated a few times before, so there was already some evidence of demand. The book is also quite short, and with summer approaching that carries a bit of weight. And don't be thrown off by the fact that Goodreads automatically links to the German translation (I don't have an explanation for that). The author might be very cosmopolitan, but this is definitely a work of English literature.

I hope you will join us next month in our discussion!

And here is a list of the other books up for consideration as our moderator pick for June:

The Accidental by Ali Smith

All That Is by James Salter

A Burnt Child by Shereen Pandit

Canada by Richard Ford

Equilateral by Ken Kalfus

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

You & Me: A Novel by Padgett Powell

looking forward to reading Train Dreams, sounds intriguing. I've read quie a few on the other list, but I've never read any James Salter

Love Salter's A Sport and a Pastime

Maybe some Salter next time. He's a new one on me, too!

Read Train Dreams when it was forst published. Reading again with the group would be great. Have also hears good things about Canada, and so;
All choices are good.

Looking forward to reading it with you.

My Library does not have Train Dreams :( I think I shall read All That Is Instead

Since this book is short and another one of my groups is putting off the start date of a group read, I am going to squeeze this one in!

Hurrah!

my choice is Canada.

Kay wrote: "my choice is Canada."

That's one I would love to read as well, and it's been brought up enough times in our moderator discussions that I truly hope it becomes the official selection one of these months. Even though Canada didn't end up as our monthly read this time around, hopefully we'll still see you in our upcoming discussion of Train Dreams

I finished Train Dreams Thursday, and then read it again. Very quick, but layered and quite good!

Thing Two wrote: "I finished Train Dreams Thursday, and then read it again. Very quick, but layered and quite good!"

That sounds promising, Thing Two - reading it again already?