The Next Best Book Club discussion

Nominations have been closed. We have over 50 books to vote on!! Great job everyone! And the lists look amazing.

I will be creating a poll shortly for each catagory. Wait until you see the title of this thread change to VOTING IS OPEN and then you will have until Sunday to cast your two votes.

Thanks again everyone!




Hi everyone!
Let's get nominating... I almost forgot it's past the middle of the month already! Where DOES the time go??

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Summer Read (classics)

I chose classics because the begining of the summer is when most bookstores will stack up and display the oldies but goodies, with signs for "summer reading"....


One nomination per person.
Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.
If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?
I will leave nominations open until Wednesday.....

Go.....

Cat 2- To Kill a Mockingbird :)

Becky... ahem.... your missing something....

Excuse me. *blush*

Cat 2- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Category 2-- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

:)

Category 2 - Classics
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Cat 2 - Three Musketeers by Dumas

Category 2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

look at all the classics!! Bravi!!

Category 2--Dracula--Bram Stoker

Hey its a classic! :D

((So I can't give a recommendation for Category 1 now?))

Wow, I guess classics was a good choice huh??????

Lori wrote: "Wow, I guess classics was a good choice huh??????"

Brilliant Lori!! perfect for us o-fo's ; )

Lori wrote: "Wow, I guess classics was a good choice huh??????"

Yes!!! And btw Lisa - I was also considering nominating The Three Musketeers! :)

Cat. 1 - (Nonfiction) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Category 1-- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Cat. 2 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cat. 1 - Sail - James Patterson

Bro's Karamazov is awesome! Great pic!

Cat 1: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Cat 2: The Woman in White-Wilkie Collins

Cat. 2 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Category 1: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, by M.T. Anderson

Category 1: The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow

Category 1: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Category 2: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Patricia: You are only able to pick one category to nominate..just thought you might want to know so you can edit your post and just pick one so that your nomination will count! :)

The Diary of Anne Frank.........I have been wanting to reread that novel.

oops! The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank......a classic in my book......no pun intended

Yvonne - You're going to want to do this: "Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to." Otherwise, your nomination won't be accepted. Anne Frank is a great choice, though.

Kyle wrote: "Category 2--Dracula--Bram Stoker"

Kyle, this was our group read back in October. I'm pretty sure we don't choose them twice, so you probably need to nominate something else. Great book though! :-)

Cat 2 - The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay (I'm not sure how "classic" it is, but I found it on the summer reading table in B&N)

Cat 1- Cold Mountain-Charles Frasier
Cat 2- I second Wuthering Heights

Cat 1 - World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

Jen B wrote: "Cat 2 - The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay (I'm not sure how "classic" it is, but I found it on the summer reading table in B&N)"


Jen, in my book, The Power of One is a classic, and on my top 10 list!

At one time there had been a sugestion that we would have a World War II themed group read for June. Don't worry, I'm not suggesting that we should now do that; let's stick with the selected agenda.

However, because of that, "Gravity's Rainbow" got stuck in my mind as a June read. Also, I really need an excuse to finally finish this book.

So I'm nominating for Category 1:

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Category 2: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

Because too many people have seen the musical and not read the book.

Category 2: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Category 2: A Passage to India, E.M. Forster.

Category 1 - A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell

Category 1 - Charles Palliser - The Quincunx

Category 1 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Jamie wrote: "Patricia: You are only able to pick one category to nominate..just thought you might want to know so you can edit your post and just pick one so that your nomination will count! :)"


Thanks!

Cat. 1 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh A Novel-Michael Chabon

Cat 1: White Teeth - Zadie Smith

Mosca wrote: "At one time there had been a sugestion that we would have a World War II themed group read for June...

However, because of that, "Gravity's Rainbow" got stuck in my mind as a June read..."

Me too! The one that stuck in mine is The English Patient. So I nominate...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje for category 1. ;)

Cat 2 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

This is my first ever nomination, yay!

Cat 2: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Cat 1 - Atonement by Ian McEwan

Not to be too nit-picky....I thought Atonement was a fabulous book, but considering it was published in 2001, I think that it should be put in Category 1. I think 8 years is a little early to call something a 'classic'. Maybe it's just me...

oops sorry mixed up my cat's 1 & 2 my bad :o)