I'm voting for the Polio book because I already have it and haven't read it yet. Plus the issues of public health campaigns, human testing, and scientific competition interest me.

Well, i just read On Beauty, which was my vote for the book club. I guess the good thing is that, the suggestions get me reading the books. Maybe not in a book club timeline, but, hey, what more can we ask? ;)

I know my schedule is a bit easier and freere than it was over the Holidays. I'd be willing to re-look/think doing this again.

(And Chris is reading Cloud Atlas at the moment. I'm about to jump into The Professor and the Madman.)

It's a page turner! I don't know how many copies I've bought over the years. I lend out a copy and somehow it just never returns, that's how fun a read it is.

So that you can all be jealous of my grade school opportunities - Time and Again was assigned reading in either my 5th or 6th grade class. (Same teacher both years - best. teacher. ever.)

I voted for On Beauty because I've read it. I used to read, before Sudoku.

I'm already reading Big Cats and it's honestly the best short story collection I've ever read.

I'm not sure I'd call it the best, but I'm with you in thinking it's really friggin' fantastic. I love her writing style, distinct but varied. She's awesome. There are some seriously kickass women writers publishing short stories right now. Thrills me.

I kind of like the anarchy book club thing - we post a list, read the one's we're interested in and post about it elsewhere

I should probably add the disclaimer that I haven't read that many short stories. I still love love love Big Cats though. I've been meaning to post a Random Book Musings thread but haven't gotten around to it.

I recently read Gob's Grief. Seriously one of the best books I've ever read. So fantastic. Our Murakami lovers here should especially read it. It isn't what you would expect. Best book I read in the past year.

I realize now how condescending that sounded, but I really didn't mean it to come across like that. Big Cats is certainly worthy of someone's "best" list. And there were certainly a couple of stories within that top my favorite short story list. And, seriously, how GREAT is the name 'Holiday'. If I ever have a kid, that names on the list.

The book you recommended sounds interesting!