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Suggest A Title For Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads 2016

Read a good book lately?

Suggest a book that you believe is a very good read to the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads planning committees and your suggestion just might be the pick for the upcoming Reads (which will take place in January & February 2016). The book selected can be a work of fiction or non fiction.

Committees will be meeting over the summer to consider hundreds of possible titles – and they want your help!

You can suggest a title by commenting below .

Book Selection

• The writing should be engaging and thought-provoking.
• The subjects discussed should be accessible to readers throughout the community, high-school age and above.
• The length, price, and availability of the book should be suited to involvement by the general public.
• The book should be by a living author.
• Its treatment of issues should encourage readers to discuss the issues further with others, at home, work, reading clubs, and community events.
• Ideally, the subject should lead to constructive dialogues across our diverse communities.

Suggest a title by June 15 and it will be considered for selection!

Comments

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.

YA novel, written in verse. Very thought provoking.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakawi

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn

BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande Suitable for all ages because we are all going to die and many of us are going to grow old and increasingly frail. The sooner we begin to think seriously about it, the better our prospects for a more meaningful life in or out of a senior community or in a nursing home -- a real home/community, not a warehouse. Things are getting better on that front, but much more is needed. Gawande is an easy-to-read but profoundly thought-provoking writer/physician.

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
This slim, searing look at extreme poverty deftly mixes policy research and heartrending narratives from a swath of the 1.5 million American households eking out an existence on cash incomes of $2 per person per day. Edin and Shaefer, respectively professors at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan, trace the history of welfare in the U.S. up to the cuts enacted by President Clinton. They also explore the worlds of the desperately impoverished, profiling people who are able to find, at best, low-wage jobs with no bargaining power. Their subjects’ wrenching stories demonstrate the huge obstacles created by unstable housing and prevalent racial discrimination.

Another vote for "Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine"

Brilliant new book from local author and teacher, R.J. Fox. Part travel memoir, part love story, full of culture shock and humor, "Love & Vodka" will have you hooked from the first page. It's all about taking a chance in life and seeing where it might lead as well as learning more about the world and about yourself. Most definitely "a very good read" that would create plenty of discussion.

Love & Vodka, a memoir by local author and English teacher R.J. Fox, published by Ann Arbor based Fish Out Of Water Books.

Another suggestion for reading Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. The book explores how we approach ageing and the process of dying and would be a valuable springboard for discussion of end of life choices for ourselves and loved ones.

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