Purple Coo Book Group Autumn Read 2018

To vote for your favourite books please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below, or let me know via the Purple Coo site or on Face Book, Behind the Bike Sheds. After a count up I'll post the most popular title on the Purple Coo main site.

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

First published in 1921 and Aldous Huxley’s debut novel, Chrome Yellow is a witty satire on upper-class English country life and is seen to be a parody of Garsington Manor, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Educated by Tara Westover

The memoir of a woman who, at 17 and completely uneducated, manages to escape from her fundamentalist Mormon family living a survivalist life in the Idaho mountains and become a successful academic.

Engerby by Sebastian Faulks

“My name is Mike Engerby and I’m in my second year at an ancient university,” is how Faulks introduces the character who turns out to be this gifted novelist's most difficult to fathom, odd and not particularly likeable, unreliable narrator.

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

Set in 1988, The Music Shop follows record shop owner Frank who has the rare gift of finding the perfect piece of music to remedy any emotional or psychological woes his customers may be suffering from. However his cosy world is under threat, not only from record companies plugging CDs rather than his beloved vinyl, but also the developers who would like to knock his shop down. And yes, there is a love story as well.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

A surprisingly joyous book based around a young woman’s tragically profound loneliness. A disturbing and unusual novel seen through the eyes of an extremely unreliable narrator, that somehow manages to be both eye wateringly hilarious and heartrendingly moving, often both on the same page.

The picture is by Grandma Moses. I couldn't find out it's name but it does make me think autumn is on the way.