All About Books discussion

It's time once again to nominate your choices for our group classics read, this time for November and December. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book that was first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1969 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 10 days and will close late on 19 October. (10pm UK time) The poll will then run for a week from the 20th October until the 27th October 2019.

During this time anybody can nominate and second a book. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 10 day nomination period will go into the poll. Each person can either nominate one book or second one book. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive.

Please only nominate, second or vote for a book you will read with the group if it should win. Please also check that your chosen nomination hasn't been a group read in the past. You can do this by looking at the group bookshelf or browsing through the Group Fiction folder.

If you have any questions on the nominations process please post here, use the 'Ask the Moderators' thread or contact one of the moderators and we will be happy to help

Remember you can nominate one book then come back and second a book.

I nominate War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

I nominate The Hobbit! By JRR Tolkien

I nominate Lolita by Vladimir_Nabokov

Luffy wrote: "I nominate War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy."

I second this vote for War and Peace!

I nominate The Three Musketeers.

I'll second The Hobbit

Books Going To Poll:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Nominated Books:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Thank you everyone for your nominations and seconds so far.

I second Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

B the BookAddict wrote: "I second Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov."

Thank you Bette.

Books Going To Poll:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Nominated Books:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I don't see this on on the bookshelf, so I'll nominate George Orwell's famous Nineteen Eighty-Four (aka 1984)

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I don't see this on on the bookshelf, so I'll nominate George Orwell's famous Nineteen Eighty-Four (aka 1984)"

Thank you for your nomination. This is one I've wanted to re-read for a while as well so I will second this.

Books Going To Poll:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell

Nominated Books:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Two more spaces in our poll.

I nominate The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

I’ll second The Three Musketeers.

I nominate Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Books Going To Poll:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Nominated Books:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

One more space left in our poll and two nominated book, which book is going to take the last space?

I'll second The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Petra wrote: "I'll second The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."

Thank you Petra, that's the poll filled now.