I'm currently studying for the bar. Since I'm under a personal time crunch, I decided to use the suggestions made by community members to the last book club poll without attempting to add any additional authors. If you look at those suggestions, you'll notice that this poll is pretty much a cut-and-paste job of them.

I didn't notice, until you mentioned it, that most of the authors in the poll were male. That was an unintentional oversight on my part. Thank you for raising this issue. In the future, I will make sure that the options reflect a balance by adding books written by female authors, authors of color, glbt authors, etc. I will also keep this issue in mind when I select the genre / theme each month. And, when I make posts asking for suggestions by the community, I'll be sure to ask that each suggestion include at least one that is written by an author that is not a white male.