True I don’t generally like short stories. It’s like eating bon bons. Unsatisfying. I like character development.
I vote for The Nix, or Spinning Silver.
Although I’d like the selection to be a book I’ve never read, I’ll note that Educated generated an intense and lengthy discussion in my book club, and everyone was glad to have read it. Eleanor Oliphant was also very popular in my club. I had to read the latter again because I had finished it so long ago, and I really didn’t mind the second read, which I normally dislike–so I guess that says something.
This is a hard one! I’ve read everyone’s posts about which books they’d prefer, and with so many good choices, I had to fall back on my threatened “random criteria” selection process, to wit: I whittled down the list until I found the book that has been read by the fewest number of people.
The only selection that hasn’t been read by anyone yet is Spinning Silver. (I was tempted by Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, which sounds great, but so many people have already read it – @jollymama, @ignatius, @Midwest67, @MommaJ, etc.)
Spinning Silver has the advantage of taking us out of our comfort zone, being both fantasy and YA. At the same time, it has the disadvantage of taking us out of our comfort zone, being both fantasy and YA. 
On the positive side, Spinning Silver received votes from @ignatius, @AnAsmom, @Midwest67 and @mathmom, and it would definitely carry @psychmom away from reality, as requested. On the negative side, @SouthJerseyChessMom and @buenavista didn’t have it on their lists.
I am hoping that the pros outweigh the cons. I’m going to pound the gavel for Spinning Silver, and hope there is no objection from members. If there is, appeals may be filed and will be duly considered.
I’m with @psychmom and looking to escape reality and your selection will do that ! So I’m in!
From NY times review
““Spinning Silver” is like falling asleep in the passenger seat of a car and waking with a jolt of fear, a cold window sticky against your cheek, a strange night country outside. Where are you? Here, in a book of not very comforting stories, a big and meaty novel, rich in both ideas and people, with the vastness of Tolkien and the empathy and joy in daily life of Le Guin.”
@doschicos your attention to detail is astounding ! Remind me, are you a professional editor, if not you missed your calling ?
“Spinning Silver” will definitely a different read for me – which is good. I’m in!
Ha! You’re not the first one to say that over the years, @SouthJerseyChessMom! I’ve heard it many times including in my teens. My job involved numbers more than words but I’ve always been the go to person in my department during my career and in nonprofit/volunteer work. It’s usually appreciated but sometimes not when you point out people’s mistakes even with the best of intentions. 
I’m in. Whatever you settle on is fine with me. This time, I really have no opinion. (Sorry to be so mushy.)
Thanks to Mary and all who joined in; I love this book club.
So what are you reading in the interim: aka bedside table books.
I’m currently reading
The Couple Next Door for a IRL book club
and
Lethal White. Lethal White is long but who’s going to tell J.K. Rowling - oops, I mean Robert Galbraith - to cut pages.
I also have some books to pick up at the library but other than Clock Dance I can’t remember titles at the moment.
Oh wow, I just read the review of “Spinning Silver” and it is completely different from my usual book choices. I feel I really could use something like this (for better or worse, lol). Thank you, Mary and gang!!
I really liked Naomi Novik’s last book Uprooted. Have to admitted fantasy is not a stretch for me. Currently finishing up Kushiel’s Justice which is the second book of the second trilogy of a series of books set in an alternative version of Europe where religion took a very different turn and gods are definitely real, though they don’t meddle in human affairs a lot. They are very long! Mostly I’m reading guidebooks to Hong Kong and a book called Chineasy which is sort of a visual approach to learning Chinese characters. It’s fun though I don’t think it’s ultimately actually that useful.
I am up for either “Spinning Silver” or “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine”. Since it is beginning to be a busy time of year, I don’t want anything much longer than either of them. Both have great ratings, so my vote is for either of those two.
^ Okay, that’s great! Thanks for the feedback everyone. Let’s go with Spinning Silver. I’ll start a new thread. It’ll be nice to spend a little time in an alternate universe. The real one has been pretty trying lately!
I was just on a road trip, and I finished “Eleanor Oliphant” on audio, and also “My Ex-Life: a Novel” by Stephen McCauley.
I have a lot of books in queue at Audible (in my wish list), but I’m not sure what’s going to be next. I keep skipping over “The Warmth of Other Suns”, and “Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World” for other selections.
On the Vox podcast The Ezra Klein Show, Klein often interviews guests who are authors, plus each episode will have 2-3 book recommendations for further reading. Lots of nerdy non-fiction reading that seems so interesting (“The War on Normal People” by Andrew Yang), but alas, so little time!
Does CC Book Club ever do nonfiction?
Spinning Silver sounds good to me!
@doschicos, we’re open to it, but it’s rare. We read Reading Lolita in Tehran a while back, but it wasn’t a particularly popular choice. (Ask @ignatius about that 
.) I’m certainly willing to try again.
I didn’t love Reading Lolita either, but I was glad to have read it. We read it with Persopolis which I think we all liked better - there’d been a lot of resistance to trying a graphic novel/memoir. So I for one was glad we all went out on a limb and challenged ourselves!
Fun Home is a really good graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. It’s a memoir. I reommend it.
Yes, I read it and liked it a lot. I’ve only read a handful, I don’t really like the genre. I thought parts of *Watchmen * were brilliant.