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The nominations for July are now open.

For June the theme is flight. All nominations must be Historical Fiction (meeting our definition) that was published at least three months prior to July, and must relate to the theme. Please include the publication date and how the book relates to the theme in your nomination for it to be counted. The book MUST also be available in all three formats-Book, ebook, and audiobook.


REMINDERS
NO SELF NOMINATION- Any member who self nominates a book, will have the post deleted and the member will be removed from the group.
NOMINATION POST MUST INCLUDE: TITLE, AUTHOR, AND PUBLICATION DATE - If any one of these three things is missing from the nomination post, it will not be counted.
EVERY MEMBER GETS ONE NOMINATION AND ONE SECOND - Please make sure you are clearly marking if you are nominating and/or seconding a book. Too much extra chatter in the nomination thread makes it difficult for the moderators to keep track of the books that need to be counted.
BOOKS IN A SERIES MUST BE READ IN SERIES ORDER -Book 4 in a series cannot be nominated if the group has not read books 1-3
For a complete breakdown of how the nomination process works, see this thread - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE look over the bookshelf containing all of the past group reads. Past group reads cannot be nominated again -
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Nominations will close on May 15th.


Nominations up to post #28

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain - 2 seconds
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead -1 second
Come Fly With Me By Camille DiMaio - 1 second
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 1 second
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara Ackerman - 1 second
Hornet Flight by Ken Follett

I would like to nominate Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. It is about a female pilot, and is set in various locations during prohibition. It was published in 2021. It is available in all formats.
I've had this on my shelf forever and really want to read it! Maybe this would be the push I need.

The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara Ackerman

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson. Published in 2024, it follows Poppy and a group of women during and after WWl as they gain access to traditionally men’s activities such as riding motorcycles and flying planes.

Wendy wrote: "The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson. Published in 2024, it follows Poppy and a group of women during and after WWl as they gain access to traditionally men’s activit..."

I really enjoyed this book

I second Great Circle. I too have this in a TBR list forever and have wanted to read this one for ever!

Come Fly With Me By Camille DiMaio published September 2025. A story about Pan Am stewardesses in the 1960s.

I wish to nominate the novel "The Night Angels: Secret missions over war-torn Europe" by D.R. Bailey.

The Night Angels: Secret missions over war-torn Europe
Published March 10th, 2025.

The novel is centered on a group of women pilots in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who were secretly recruited to form a special attack squadron during World War II, which was tasked with taking on the Germans on perilous night missions over Occupied Europe.

Love this theme! I will nominate Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, a novel about Beryl Markham who learned to fly in Kenya. Published July, 2015

I second Come Fly with Me

Hornet Flight by Ken Follett, First published in 2002.
Hornet Flight

I second, Circling the Sun, been meaning to read this one for a long time

Here's a second for Circling the Sun, thanks 🧚‍♀️🙋🏼.

I second The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club.

I second The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

KOMET wrote: "I wish to nominate the novel "The Night Angels: Secret missions over war-torn Europe" by D.R. Bailey.

[book:The Night Angels: Secret missions over war-torn Europe..."

Hello, unfortunately this looks like it is the second in a series and we have not read the first book as a group.

Debbie wrote: "“Kin” by Tayari Jones (2026). Apologies for no link, I’m on my phone and GR app doesn’t offer that."

Does that book have to do with flight?

What a great theme, Jasmine! What really is exciting is seeing books about women and written by women. I'll do a little reviewing of the suggestions and thanks to all who mentioned them.

I read a memoir of Beryl Markham some years ago, so I checked the Paula McLain novel and then noticed another very highly rated one on Beryl M by Mary S. Lovell that I'll nominate, if another book is needed. If not, I'll make a choice based on the others above.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

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Nominate Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein about two English girls in Nazi occupied France one a spy and the other a pilot. Published in 2012

I second Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity

I think we’ve read Code Name Verity in this group before—did you check?

We’ve read Code name Helene but I don’t see Code Name Verity

Margaret wrote: "We’ve read Code name Helene but I don’t see Code Name Verity"

Ah, that must be what I was thinking of! I’m sure I’ve read it—must’ve been in another group.

Colleen, I read at least 30 years ago, West With The Night. It is autobiographical, written by Beryl Markham, herself. I remember loving the prose as much as the story of her life. I would nominate this one but it is not available in three formats. Highly recommend.

Code Name Verity was read by this group back in May of 2013, otherwise I would second it (love that book!).

Apologies Code name Verity is removed

Colleen Chi-Girl wrote: "I read a memoir of Beryl Markham some years ago, so I checked the Paula McLain novel and then noticed another very highly rated one on Beryl M by Mary S. Lovell that I'll nominate, if another book ..."

It looks like this is nonfiction. For this month, we are reading fictional books. Next month we will do our fiction/nonfiction combo.

Thanks for your comments above. Appreciate it!