The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

It's also time to start nominating books for the group reads selections for the next challenge. For the Winter Challenge the 3 Categories of nominations are...

1. Classics
2. Winter (Books related in someway to winter holidays or wintery weather)
3. Romance

Each person may nominate only 1 Book For Each Of These Categories. I'll accept nominations until midnight est on October 28th. I'll then post the polls the next day - voting will run for 2 weeks until November 12th.

Classics - Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Winter - Into Thin Air A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
Romance - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Classics - Middlemarch by George Eliot
Winter - The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
Romance - Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

Didn't see that I could nominate a book in each category :-)

Classics - Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Winter - The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
Romance - Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife Pride and Prejudice Continues by Linda Berdoll

Classics - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Winter - The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christophere Moore
Romance - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Winter - The Shining by Stephen King

Classics - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Winter - Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Romance - Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Classics - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Winter - The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Romance - Birdsong A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks

Classic After Dark by Wilkie Collins
Winter winter's tale by mosse
Romance An Echo in the Bone by Gabaldon

Jennifer L. wrote: "Classics - Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Winter - The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
Romance - [book:Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife Pride and Prejudice Continues|83..."

I second your winter rec. I have had it on my shelf for a couple Christmas' now and I want an excuse to have to read it! lol.

Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Romance: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Classic: The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Winter: A Dismal Thing To Do by Alisa Craig
Romance: The Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer

Classic: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Winter: Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin.
Romance: Possession A Romance, A.S. Byatt.

1. Classics: The Brothers Karamazov
2. Winter: You Better Not Cry Stories for Christmas
3. Romance: Outlander

Edited mine to get a winter book :)

Hello!

Classics: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Winter: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Romance: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Jennifer wrote: "
Hello!

Classics: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Winter: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Romance: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak"

Wow Jennifer, you hit the winter theme on all three of them. Good job! :)

*applauds Jennifer!!* Awesome choices!

Classics: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Winter: Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Romance: The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Classics: The Crucible-Arthur Miller
Winter: Shiver-Maggie Steifvater
Romance: Graceling-Kristin Cashore

El wrote: "Wow Jennifer, you hit the winter theme on all three of them. Good job!: Tanjawrote: "*applauds Jennifer!!* Awesome choices!"

Hi El and Tanja. Thanks!! I thought it was a good batch of picks. We'll see how the voting goes.

:)

Classics: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Winter: Has already been nominated!The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore

Romance: Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

Classics: Lolita Vladimir Nabakov

Winter: Holidays on Ice David Sedaris

Romance: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

My votes:

Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Winter: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore.
Romance: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

christmas carol classic
christmas shoes winter
walk to remember ( I dont read this genre, if this doesnt fit just let me know) romance

Classics: The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins

Winter: The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin

Not sure about the third category as I don't read much of that. I'll have a think...

1. Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
2. ?
3. ?

1. Love and Mr. Lewisham (Paperback)
2. Ethan Frome

1. Classic - Under the Volcano A Novel by Malcolm Lowry
2. Winter - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
3. Romance - Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn

Bridgit wrote: "Classics: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Winter: Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Romance: The Princess Bride - William Goldman"

Snow Crash was the best... I love Neal Stephenson!!

Classic: Vanity Fair
winter holiday: Stupidest angel
romance: Outlander

ClassicTess of the D'Urbervilles
Winter A Wedding in December
RomanceOutlander

Classic: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Winter: Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
Romance: Katherine by Anya Seton

Classic: The Three Musketeers
Winter: Winter Harvest
Romance: The Smoke Thief

Classic: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Winter; Snow Falling on Cedars
Romance: Simon Coldheart by Georgette Heyer

Classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Winter: light on snow Anita Shreve
Romance: The Last time they met also by Anita Shreve

Rachel Lee wrote: "Classics: The Crucible-Arthur Miller
Winter: Shiver-Maggie Steifvater
Romance: Graceling-Kristin Cashore"

These are great nominations, Rachel!


My nominations are...
Classic: Rebbecca-Daphne du Maurier
Winter: One Week In December by Holly Chamberlin
Romance:Austenland by Shannon Hale

Classic: Arabian Nights
Winter: A Christmas Carol
Romance: Breaking the Rules

Classic: Jane Eyre
Winter: Winter's Tale
Romance: Graceling

Classics: A Christmas Carol

Winter: Smilla's Sense of Snow

Romance: Beyond the Highland Mist

1. Classics: The Trial
2. Winter: Ethan Frome
3. Romance: North and South

1.Classic -- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
2.Winter -- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
3.Romance -- Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook

Classic - Emma - Jane Austen
Winter - Christmas Jars - Jason Wright

Wow! There are so many great books being nominated. This poll is going to be huge and hard to decide upon.

Are there ever any worries about too many books being in a poll and percentages being low, and/or very spread out with no clear leader? I'm just curious because I have only been using the site since August, so haven't participated in a lot of polls. Any enlightenment would be appreciated! :)

Classics: Gulliver's Travels
Winter: Wintergirls
Romance: Lady Chatterley's Lover

1. Classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Jennifer wrote: "Wow! There are so many great books being nominated. This poll is going to be huge and hard to decide upon.

Are there ever any worries about too many books being in a poll and percentages being lo..."
Click on polls and you can see the past ones and how they played out.

Wendy wrote: "Click on polls and you can see the past ones and how they played out."

Thanks Wendy.

I have looked at the past polls, but I was more wondering about people's thoughts on the subject.

:)

Jennifer wrote: "
Wendy wrote: "Click on polls and you can see the past ones and how they played out."

Thanks Wendy.

I have looked at the past polls, but I was more wondering about people's thoughts on the subje..."

I think that sometimes people vote, come back and so who the top three leaders are and then change their vote to one of those so that their preferred book of the three is the one that makes it. I could be wrong, but I've heard people on another group say that is what they did.

That's what I did! I wanted my vote to count, and a couple of the books that were in the lead looked... scary... so I switched to another one that stood a chance...

Sara ♥ wrote: "That's what I did! I wanted my vote to count, and a couple of the books that were in the lead looked... scary... so I switched to another one that stood a chance..."

I do the same thing. I vote and then if it looks like the book I chose isn't in the running...I change my vote so it counts. Just like Sara!