^ No can do - blocked.
Okay … try this: https://www.listchallenges.com/the-washington-post-50-notable-works-of
(I see The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley on the list.)
In that list from the Washington Post these were the ones that caught my eye:
Endgame
By Ahmet Altan. Translated from the Turkish by Alexander Dawe (Europa)
“Murder and corruption in a seaside town, written by a giant of Turkish culture — recently imprisoned — whose work is being translated for the first time into English.” Readers at Amazon loved it or hated it. The bit I read reminded me a bit of The Stranger.
Inheritance From Mother
By Minae Mizumura. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Other)
“The story of how Mitsuki confronts a philandering husband and a dying mother illuminates a universal midlife conundrum.” It’s written as an homage to serial novels and was in fact serialized - short chapters kind of like Maupin’s Tales of the City.
Chemistry
By Weike Wang (Knopf)
“A graduate student in chemistry, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, confronts decisions in love, her career and her sense of self-worth” I think I might have suggested this before.
Standard Deviation
By Katherine Heiny (Knopf)
“At the center of this witty novel is a mother with an outsize personality who must deal with a son who’s an origami prodigy.” My house is full of origami, and I am addicted to buying origami paper (though not so much to actually folding it) so I may be a bit biased here. The snippet made me laugh out loud.
Woman No. 17
By Edan Lepucki (Hogarth)
“A mother of two boys hires a nanny so that she can work on her memoir, but the nanny has a secret project of her own.”
^ Thanks! Okay, I’m now posting what’s been mentioned 'cause it has reached my lucky number 13:
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Endgame by Ahmet Altan
Inheritance From Mother by Minae Mizumura
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki
The first thing to do is veto. You know the rules (or lack thereof): Anybody can veto any title, no questions asked, no hard feelings. We have plenty to choose from and too many to vote on, so vetoes are more than welcome.
I’d like to say something intelligent about the above titles, but I haven’t read a single one. And really, the only thing on my mind right now is the fact that @mathmom’s house is full of origami.
Veto #1: Endgame - I like The Stranger but been there/read that too recently to want to read anything similar and the reviews make it sound similar. Publishers Weekly: “Interspersed throughout the narrative are existential discussions with God about the nature of writing, life, and the creation of characters. These passages serve to warn us that something horrible is coming, that the narrator will commit a terrible act.”
^^ Haha, I just noticed I put The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley on the list twice. Freudian? In any case, we can veto one of them. That brings the list down to eleven (still too high).
It’s been great having so many “newbies” participate in this discussion. I realize P&P is unique and there may not be another book with such an enthusiastic fan base.
Please everyone weigh in on the next selection, let Mary13 know your preferences. I’m sure she would like to select a book with widest appeal.
If you’ve read any of these ( I have not) and can help us decide which book to consider , I would welcome that input, as would others.
@VeryHappy thank you for endorsing “the orphans master son” - I just checked goodreads, and saw some comments about the first 200 pages being slow going ( don’t want to slog through next book )
Also is the material particularly grim- labor camps, starvation, ???
Based on @ignatius rec I read " woman in the window" the new current page turner, and it did not disappoint. I wonder if that would be meaty enough for discussion, and have wide appeal?
Sorry, Mary13 for missing the deadline for book suggestions.
(Also, have been imagining a house for of origami @mathmom - what a great obsession, I mean hobby =D> )
@SouthJerseyChessMom, there’s no such thing as a deadline around here. If you have ideas for our next selection, please share them!
Yeah, The Orphan Master’s Son is grim. But, I learned a lot about NK. If grim isn’t what we’re up for, we can eliminate it.
Inheritance from Mother and Chemistry sound interesting to me.
To help @Mary13: My top six of the eleven choices + 1 - in no particular order.
*The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Sunburn
The Nix
The Immortalists
Standard Deviation
The Orphan Master’s Son*
and, yes, @SJCM - The Woman in the Window - (apologies to @Mary13: I know you didn’t have it on the list.)
Others please chime in so @Mary13 can whittle the list down to a top 3-5 and then we can choose.
^ It was just a working list, not a final one – still very fluid, so feel free to add and subtract!
Here are the 12 under consideration (I didn’t remove The Orphan Master’s Son because I wasn’t sure whether or not SJCM’s comment was a veto):
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Inheritance From Mother by Minae Mizumura
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
There’s no harm in doing one voting round to see if a miracle occurs and the same book shows up on everyone’s list. So just out of curiosity, if you had the above dozen books in front of you, which three would you choose to take home?
I will put out a lighter suggestion, good perhaps for a summer read.
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann https://www.amazon.com/Three-Bags-Full-Sheep-Detective/dp/0767927052
A shepherd in Ireland dies. The sheep set out to find out how and why. Yes, the entire book is written from the point of view of sheep and uses sheep logic and skills.
From the Washington Post list, I’ve read “4 3 2 1” for my RL Book Club. I know it’s not on the above short list, but I will say it was l-o-n-g and sometimes confusing, but such an interesting concept.
As always, I’m willing to read almost anything! Related to “The Orphan Master’s Son,” H and I were in South Korea just under 2 years ago, visiting S who was on a 1 year assignment there with the Air Force. One day we did a tour of the DMZ, and, as part of that, actually stood over the border in North Korea, inside a building.
My choices, in order, would be:
The Dry
The Woman in the Window
Inheritance from Mother
But I’m flexible.
^ Lol, @“Snowball City” , we could make it a duo and read it along with Bellwether by Connie Willis. 
Three from 2017:
*The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
The Nix
Standard Deviation*
Two from 2018:
*The Immortalists
Sunburn*
(If pushed to choose only three, I’d probably knock off Standard Deviation and Sunburn. However, both look good.)
As for A Woman in the Window it’s good and would probably be a popular choice. I didn’t list it above as I’ve read it but would be perfectly content if it gets chosen. (Just an FYI: I did not particularly like The Girl on the Train but did like A Woman in the Window.) And I see that @VeryHappy listed The Dry and I still want to read that too. Geez, I’m back to have listed seven books.
Mary, if we can’t winnow them down further, put the names in a bowl, close your eyes, and pick one!
^ a tried and true method!
List your top 3-5 choices - and maybe we can choose from there.
As long as we’re nowhere yet, here’s one more title: The Power by Naomi Alderman. Has anyone read it?
One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of 2017
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017
One of the Washington Post’s Ten Best Books of 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
One of Entertainment Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2017
A Bustle Best Book of 2017
A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017
Winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
It would be timely in light of #MeToo. If we were feeling adventurous, we could combine it with The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and totally rock our feminist side,