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Nominate your favourite book for the final Reading group

This October will be the final month of the Guardian’s Reading group in its current form, so let’s go out with a bang. I want to celebrate the fact that we’ve had fantastic fun – and covered a lot of very good ground in the last nine years.

We’ve taken in subjects as different as modernism, science fiction, summer, climate, France, Scotland, Pulitzer prize winners, historical fiction, translated fiction, spy fiction, migration, apocalypse, hope and love.

We’ve had webchats from supremely talented and fascinating writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, David Mitchell, Madeline Miller, Geoff Dyer, James Ellroy, Sarah Churchwell, Kim Newman, Hermione Lee, Nina Stibbe, Ian Rankin, Marilynne Robinson, Eley Williams, Michael Chabon, and, I still feel lucky to say it, Penelope Lively.

We’ve read books by authors as wide ranging as Andrea Levy, Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, EL Doctorow, Terry Pratchett, PG Wodehouse, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Georges Simenon, William Burroughs, Doris Lessing, Malcolm Lowry, Rebecca West, Annie Proulx, Valeria Luiselli, Zadie Smith, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Don DeLillo and Charles Dickens. That’s to name just a few – and it’s before we get to perhaps my favourite of all: the great Marcel Proust, which was a reading experience that has stayed with me ever since.

Which brings me to this month’s theme. There’s a very simple subject that we haven’t yet done on the Reading group – your favourite book. Or books. Because, let’s face it, it’s hard to pick one.

This also brings me to the other thing I want to celebrate: the wonderful contributions so many of you have made to Reading group discussions over the years. I’m going to miss them – but that’s only a reflection of how warm, enlightening and fascinating they have been. So I’m looking forward to hearing about the books that most matter to you. The only limitation is that you should name books that really matter to you and that you want to share with everyone else.

Just nominate below the line and, as has been traditional, I’ll put the candidates into a hat and pick them out next week, happy in the knowledge that there will be someone who loves the book that comes out.