The winner of our vote for Discovery Read - Books Through the Ages: The 1950s was Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Thanks to u/mothermucca for nominating this brilliant novel! u/espiller1, u/Tripolie, and I will run it.

Goodreads Summary:

'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'

Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of Black Americans.

Schedule:

Thurs. 10/27: Prologue to Ch. 3

Thurs. 11/3: Ch. 4 to Ch. 9

Thurs. 11/10: Ch. 10 to Ch. 13

Thurs. 11/17: Ch. 14 to Ch. 17

Thurs. 11/24: Ch. 18 to Ch. 22

Thurs. 12/1: Ch. 23 to end

See you there!