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 Wednesday. 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.

First comment dance!

Cat 2 - Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cat 1. The Angel Experiment- James Patterson

Cat 1. Hounded

Jac wrote: "Doors Open by Ian Rankin

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Jac: Don't forget to indicate whether your nomination is for Cat 1 or Cat 2. ;-)

Cat2: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nicole wrote: "First comment dance!

Cat 2 - Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Nicole, this was already a group read. Try again? :D

Not a problem Heather, I already have one in mind! Cat 1 - Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic.

cat.1:February by Lisa Moore

Cat 1- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Cat.1 In the Woods by Tana French

Cat 1 - The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

Allan wrote: "Cat 1. Hounded"

Oh, such a good recommendation. I read that this month.

Cat 1 The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Cat 1. In God's House by Ray Mouton

Cat 1: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
(an aewesome debut novel)

Cat 2 The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank

Cat 1: Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack Sutin

Cat 1: "Hung in the Middle: A Journey of Gender Discovery" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

cat 2 Atlas Shrugged byAyn Rand

Cat 1: After the Fall by Charity Norman

Cat 2- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Cat 2: The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham

Cat 1: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Cat 1: After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

Cat 1: Defending Jacob by William Landay

Cat 2: The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

Cat 1: Beautiful Ruinsby Jess Walter

Cat 1: Defending Jacob by William Landay

Cat. 2: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Cat 2 - Herzog by Saul Bellow

Cat 2: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Cat 1: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Cat 1:

Jane and Anna, you may want to redo your posts. To repeat rules for those NOT reading Lori's intro:

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.


;-)

Thanks Heather. Here I go again: Cat 1. Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt.

Cat 1 Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Cat 1 - Aleph by Paulo Coelho

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/12...

Polls are open until March 26th at midnight EST

Vote once per category.

May the best books win!!!

Cat2 The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maughan

CAT 1 - A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

I think we're voting already.

Sorry Lori... no more noms... we're voting in the polls :)

Guess I'll save it for next month.

I'm not finding the poll. Do you think you could delete some of the older polls?

I had that problem too.

You can find it about three polls down. :)

Bummer. I can't find the poll at all.

Are you at the website or the app? You have to be at the actual website. At the top right of the group home page, you'll see 3 colums and 3 rows. Polls are listed in the 3rd column, 3rd row. Click on it, and it's poll #3.

Actually, it's polls number 2 and 3. ;-)

Hey, for those of you having trouble locating the polls, I linked to it in post #40.