The Next Best Book Club discussion

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

The categories going forward will remain as follows (based on your feedback):

Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Classics

In order for a novel to count as "Classic" it must be published pre-1980.

Please do not nominate a book more than once. A book can only be voted on once, so multiple nominations within this thread are not counted.

Only ONE nomination per person.
If you nominate a book for catagory 1, you CANNOT nominate a book for catagory 2, and visa versa.

Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.

Ideally, you can type it as follows -
Cat 1. Room - Emma Donoghue

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?

I will accept nominations through Friday evening. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

**Important note: At no time is it acceptable for an author to nominate one of his/her own books for the monthly group read. Likewise, it is not acceptable to "push" nominations or votes within this group. It also follows that "a nomination for a nomination" is not acceptable. If I suspect a push, or inappropriate actions have taken place within the group read nominations or votes, I reserve the right to deem those nominations or votes as ineligible.

Cat 1 The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

Cat 1: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Cat 1: Dark Places byGillian Flynn

Cat 1: John Dies at the End by David Wong

Cat 2 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Cat 1: The Gathering by Anne Enright

Cat 2The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank

Cat 1: Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord

Cat 2: A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell

Well, I held out as long as I could...

Not a lot of nominations for next month's reads... but maybe that will make the voting easier?

Polls will stay open through midnight Dec 29th. One vote per category....
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/12...

May the best books win!

OK guys! And the winners are....

Dark Places for our fic/non fic category

and

Mrs. Dalloway for our classic category


Congrats to the new group reads!!! We'll start discussing on January 1st!