Drum roll please....the first book I thought we could read is Persuasion by Jane Austen.  Here is a brief synopsis of the book, thanks to Amber Bradshaw from online-literature.com.  If this is not the novel of choice for you, we will definitely mix it up next time around.  

Persuasion begins several years after the heroine, Anne Elliot, has jilted her lover Fredrick Wentworth, upon the request of a most beloved mother figure.  Although at the time of the refusal the man seems an inadequate match, the tables are now turned: as in most Austen novels--the girl is poor, the boy is rich.  To add insult to injury, Anne's father is going bankrupt and must rent his house to none other than Fredrick's sister and brother-in-law, bringing Anne and Fredrick in contact again.  Through twists and turns of jealousy, romance, poetry, rumors and a serious head injury, Anne and Fredrick always find themselves in uncomfortable situations that brew up old feelings (that were probably never lost).  As Jane Austen's last completed novel, some critics dismiss it as her darkest; however, others see it as her most honest and universal.  Whatever your opinion, the whole novel is worth reading just for the letter (correspondence) in chapter twenty-three.  

I was thinking As I Lay Dying for the next book, by William Faulkner.  One of my favorites!  If possible, I think it would be fun to read books none of us have read.  Any suggestions I would love as well for books you love, or hear are good.  But that may be hard once more people join.  So come one, come all!  Let us be persuaded by Persuasion.