Readers, please choose 10 from among the 26 books listed as candidates for 2020 reading by the BAIN Book Group. Even if you won’t be in town for every meeting, anyone interested is invited to vote. Fiction, non-fiction, books in translation, classics, they are all on the list. Give 10 points to your favorite, 9 points to your next favorite, etc. Address comments, get the form, and return the form to Tonilin@aol.com. In a continued effort to please everyone … Toni will forward you to the voting form if the list below doesn’t serve you.
| Vote | Title | Author | Pages | Year | |
| 1 | News of a Kidnapping | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 291 | 1996 | |
| 2 | No One Writes to the Colonel | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 69 | 1978 | |
| 3 | The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 218 | 1922 | |
| 4 | Aunt Julia and the Script Writer | Mario Vargas Llhosa | 388 | 2011 | |
| 5 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 201 | 1962 | |
| 6 | The Blazing World | Siri Hustvedt | 369 | 2014 | |
| 7 | What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt | 386 | 2004 | |
| 8 | All Over Creation | Ruth Ozeki | 432 | 2004 | |
| 9 | The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating | Elisabeth Tova Bailey | 209 | 2013 | |
| 10 | Spell of the Sensuous Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World | David Abrams | 368 | 2012 | |
| 11 | God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine — | Victoria Sweet | 372 | 2012 | |
| 12 | The Muralist | B. A. Shapir | 369 | 2015 | |
| 13 | Fruit of the Drunken Tree | Ingrid Rojas Contreras | 304 | 2018 | |
| 14 | Next Year in Havana | Chanel Cleeton | 394 | 2018 | |
| 15 | Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria | Beverly Daniel Tatum | 358 | 2017 | |
| 16 | The Indigo Girl | Natasha Boyd | 343 | 2017 | |
| 17 | Where’d You Go, Bernadette | Maria Semple | 335 | 2012 | |
| 18 | A Single Thread | Tracy Chevalier | 331 | 2019 | |
| 19 | Disappearing Earth | Julia Phillips | 262 | 2019 | |
| 20 | Fleishman Is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 376 | 2019 | |
| 21 | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | 256 | 2019 | |
| 22 | Red at the Bone | Jacqueline Woodson | 207 | 2019 | |
| 23 | Three Women | Lisa Taddeo | 320 | 2019 | |
| 24 | Kitchen House | Kathleen Grissom | 368 | 2010 | |
| 25 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 247 | 2004 | |
| 26 | Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng | 298 | 2014 |
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