Vote while you can (for book two)

Voting closes Monday, 2/24.

Thanks to everybody who subscribed over the past couple of days as we gear up for our next read. We’re currently at 41 subscribers and on track to dethrone Oprah by the summer. Just wanted to send this reminder to vote for our next book here if you haven’t. The Great American Book Club is a democracy; every book is decided by you. Voting ends tomorrow evening, Monday, 2/24. I’ve provided a more detailed description of our choices below.

• The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
  A harrowing reimagining of the real-life Underground Railroad as an actual subterranean train system. The novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman who escapes a brutal Georgia plantation and journeys through different states, each with its own twisted version of oppression.

• American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  A deep, sweeping novel about the American Dream unraveling. It follows Swede Levov, a seemingly perfect, successful man whose life crumbles when his daughter commits an act of political terrorism in the 1960s.

• A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
  A genre-bending novel told through interconnected short stories spanning decades. It explores the rise and fall of people tied to the music industry, touching on themes of time, nostalgia, and the way life changes us.

• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  A mind-bending classic that blends WWII trauma, time travel, and dark humor. It follows Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier who survives the firebombing of Dresden and becomes "unstuck in time," drifting between past, future, and alien encounters.

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