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 weeks prompt: Class, as defined as “the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status.” What are some of your favorite or least favorite novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books that social and/or economic class play a role in?

Suggestions for prompts are always welcome!

Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone. Thanks, and happy commenting!

Today’s literary birthdays:
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), German poet (RIP 1803)
Lily Braun (1865), German feminist writer (RIP 1916)
Liane de Pougy (1869), French novelist and memoirist (RIP 1950)
Hermann Hesse (1877), German-Swiss poet and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize (RIP 1962)
Max Beloff (1913), British historian (RIP 1999)
Zélia Gattai (1916), Brazilian memoirist, novelist and children’s books author (RIP 2008)
Jean Craighead George (1919), American YA and children’s books author (RIP 2012)
John Kneubuhl (1920), American Samoan playwright and historian (RIP 1992)
Wisława Szymborska (1923), Polish poet, essayist and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize (RIP 2012)
Chia-ying Yeh (1924), Chinese-Canadian poet and sinologist (RIP 2024)
Darren O’Shaughnessy (1972, AKA Darren Shan), Irish YA and adult novelist