Both Nora Rawlinson at Earlyword and Kaite Stover over at Booklist Book Group Buzz have posted recently on their predictions for what titles book clubs will favor next season once they come out in trade paperback. Booklist is championing Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simondson, Bloodroot by Amy Greene and Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt (January 2011), while Earlyword is betting on Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
Shop Indie BookstoresI thought I would join in the fun and pull a book out of my hat also. What with the popularity of HBO’s Big Love, I’m going to put my money on The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall which landed on several booksellers reading lists as reported by NPR and Earlyword.
Brady Udall’s The Lonely Polygamist was the book of the show at the ABA’s Winter Institute. Daniel Goldin, owner of Boswell & Books in Milwaukee observed, ”not only did every person who read this novel become overwhelmed with emotion, but the line for getting this book signed at the author reception had to be three times the size of anything else.”
