⭒GUARDIANS ONLY: January 2026 BOTM Nominations⭒ > Likes and Comments

Hey, guys! Welcome to the January 2026 BOTM Nominations thread.

Happy new year! 💚💚💚only nominate if you were a guardian 💚💚💚 I’ll be checking

Please follow the guidelines below when nominating.

1) You are allowed to nominate a maximum of 3 books for each month's BotM.

2) The book(s) you nominate must be in the fantasy genre (here at Faith & Fantasy, both sci-fi and fairy tales may be included) and be clean or relatively clean.

3) Try to nominate books from Christian authors as much as possible. It doesn't have to have obvious spiritual themes, but please don't ever nominate a book with themes that clash with biblical truth.

4) If someone has already nominated a book that you wanted to nominate, please do "second" it! I will only be picking the top 3-6 books to vote on in the final poll, but the more total "seconds" a book has, the more likely it will become the BotM.

5) You can "second" a total of 6 books or nominate a total of 3. If you're going to both nominate book(s) and second book(s), you just have to make sure you don't exceed 3 nominations and 6 in total (seconds + nominations) per month. Hope that makes sense!

Also, please do not nominate any books that we have read recently. You can view the books Faith & Fantasy has already read here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

While it’s not a rule, exactly, we prefer the books you nominate to have 1,000+ ratings, that way it’s more accessible to people, especially minors, since they might not have the money to pay for books. This way, the book will have a higher chance of being found in all of our library systems. Just a preference, though!

I will send out a poll for all of us to vote on based on this thread's nominations 4-5 days after today.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them!

I nominate The Hawk and the Jewel by Lori Wick
I don’t know much about it but I got it from my aunt, it’s Christian fiction, and it’s on my physical tbr lol

I nominate:
The Story Peddler
Wendy's Ever After
Unseelie

I nominate
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Saintly Outlaw (idk who it’s by it’s a kids book I borrowed from my sister)

If we're still nominating things, I nominate:
Phantastes
The Legend of Sam Miracle

I second:
The Story Peddler
The Giver

I nominate:

Our Divine Mischief
Vivid

Oh, I wish I could second Our Divine Mischief.🤭

I nominate Toads and Diamonds (by Heather Tomlinson)

And I second The Giver.

1. The Giver
2. The Story Peddler

I nominate: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

I second: The Legend of Sam Miracle
The Hawk and the Jewel
Our Divine Mischief

I don't think Hawk and the Jewel is fantasy, so I don't think it counts.

But I'll second Till We Have Faces

I nominate:
A Crown of Chains
The Wonderland Trials
Sons of Day & Night

i second vivid
i second the story peddler

I second:
The Story Peddler

I nominate:
The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim #1)

I second:
Vivid
The Wonderland Trials

I second the Wonderland Trials

I second Sons of Day and Night!

I second The Wonderland Trials (I would second SoDaN but I just read it back in November lol)

I nominate:
Of Stormlarks and Silence
An Enchantment of Ravens

I second:
The Giver

oops, didn't see the note about only nominating if you are a guardian. Just take my nominations off the list or something I guess XD

🎆❄️🧥🫖🏔️
I Nominate:
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Caraval
Goose girl
🧣☄️⏰🧊☕
I Second:
The giver
Till we have faces
An Enchantment of ravens
☃️🍵🏒🪩🛋️

I second
The Legend of Sam Miracle
The False Prince
Goose Girl

The poll is made

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...