Welcome to the Book Nook! The weekly thread for all book nerds on The Avocado. This is the place to talk about books you’re currently reading, discuss genres, ask for recommendations, and post serious literary criticism.

This week’s prompt: Money. What are your favorite novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books about money (or the lack thereof)?

Ideas for prompts are always welcome!

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Today’s literary birthdays:
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Polish mathematician and astronomer (RIP 1543)
Matthäus Schwarz (1497), German fashion writer* (RIP c.1574)
Froben Christoph of Zimmern (1519), German author of the Zimmern Chronicle** (RIP 1566)
Carolus Clusius (1526), French botanist (RIP 1609)
Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532), French poet (RIP 1589)
Friedrich Hoffmann (1660). German physician and chemist (RIP 1742)
David Garrick (1717), English playwright (RIP 1779)
Carl von Rokitansky (1804), German pathologist and philosopher (RIP 1878)
Svante Arrhenius (1859), Swedish physicist and chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (RIP 1927)
Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869), National Poet of Armenia (RIP 1923)
José Eustasio Rivera (1888), Colombian poet (RIP 1928)
André Breton (1896), French poet, essayist, critic and editor, co-founder of the Surrealist movement
Kay Boyle (1902), American novelist and short story writer (RIP 1992)
Havank (AKA Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen, 1904), Dutch detective novelist (RIP 1964)
Carson McCullers (1917), American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist and poet (RIP 1967)
Jaan Kross (1920), Estonian novelist, short story writer and poet (RIP 2007)
Frederick Seidel (1936), American poet
William Messner-Loebs (1949), American comic book writer and artist
Ryū Murakami (1952), Japanese novelist, short story writer and essayist
Amy Tan (1952), American novelist, short story writer, children’s book author and memoirist
Jeff Kinney (1971), American author and illustrator of children’s books
*Matthäus Schwarz is “best known for compiling his Klaidungsbüchlein or Trachtenbuch (usually translated as “Book of Clothes”), a book cataloguing the clothing that he wore between 1520 and 1560. The book has been described as ‘the world’s first fashion book’ ”

**”The Zimmern Chronicle is a family chronicle describing the lineage and history of the noble family of Zimmern, based in Meßkirch, Germany. The chronicle is an eminent historical source of information about 16th century nobility in South-West Germany, its culture and its values. It is also an important literary and ethnological source for its many folkloristic texts.”

All information courtesy of Wikipedia