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.

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.

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

Are you ready?

I will accept nominations through Sunday. 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!

Cat2: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

I'm sorry. I get so excited to nominate books that I forget the rules sometimes.

Cat2: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cat 1: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Angela, if you read the nominations rules (first post) you can see that you are only allowed one nomination total.

Please edit your post to show which book you would prefer to nominate.

Thanks!

Cat 2: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Cat 2 Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

Cat 1: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Cat 2: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Cat 2: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Cat. 1 - The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

Ooh I read The rice mother recently and really enjoyed it.

Cat 1: My Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk

(I havent participated much in the group readings of late but I love to keep un eye on what the group its reading)

Cat 1: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Lahni wrote: "Ooh I read The rice mother recently and really enjoyed it."

One of my all time faves!!!

Cat 2: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Cat 2: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

Cat. 1: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Cat. 1: Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

Lady wrote: "Allison wrote: "Cat 1: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett."

This is one of my favourite books. EVER. :)"

Yay!!! :) Me too! I just read it and LOVED it and now I'm desperate to find people to talk to about it! :)

Tina wrote: "Cat 1: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray"


I just finished Skippy Dies and it was AMAZING!!

hmm maybe I'll go classic...I'm going to propose

cat. 2 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

I've been trying to work my way through this behemoth and I think I need some moral support.

Category 1: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

Cat 2: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Cat 2:The Prophecies of Nostradamus by Nostradamus

Lady wrote: "Cat 1: A Plague of Angels by Sherri S. Tepper"

Wonderful Story!!

Cat 2: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Cat 2: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Lady wrote: "Angela wrote: "Cat1: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Cat2: The Phantom of the Opera"

Madame Tussaud was most gnarly."

I actually haven't read it yet. It is sitting by my bed waiting for me to pick it up.

Cat 2 - Alice's adventures in wonderland, by Lewis Carrol

Cat 1 - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride.

Lady wrote: "I'm all ears!"

Yay! Maybe I'll start a thread and we can chat about it! :)

Cat 2 - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am so excited to start reading it. So excited that I am putting down The Count of Monte Cristojust to start reading this one :)

Tina wrote: "Cat 1: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray"

I second this! Just amazon wishlisted it. :-)

Here's what we've got so far:

Cat1
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
The Rice Mother - Rani Manicka
My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
A Plague of Angels - Sherri S. Tepper
Beneath a Marble Sky - John Shors
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride


Cat2
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
The Prophecies of Nostradamus - Nostradamus
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let's get the last of the nominations in... I might wrap this up tonite!

Cat 1

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

In honor of its shiny new Pulitzer, I nominate A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan for Category #1.

On category 1. you forgot to put Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution on. Could you please do that?

Angela, you are missing a vital pc of information. Take a read through the rules in the first post, and if you repost it correctly, I promise to add it :)

Lori wrote: "Angela, you are missing a vital pc of information. Take a read through the rules in the first post, and if you repost it correctly, I promise to add it :)"

I'll help her out :-)

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

Cat 1: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Cat 1: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Here is the final list. Be patient as I add them to the polls....

Cat1
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
The Rice Mother - Rani Manicka
My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk
The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
A Plague of Angels - Sherri S. Tepper
Beneath a Marble Sky - John Shors
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution - Michelle Moran
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang


Cat2
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
The Prophecies of Nostradamus - Nostradamus
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Both polls are open. One vote per poll. Polls will close on Easter....

Good luck!!!

Cat 2: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (I've never read it but it's sitting on my bedside table BEGGING to be read!)

Sorry Wendy but you missed the cut off! We are starting to vote on the polls already (notice the change in thread title?)

Rats. I didn't realize that it was closed. My error :(

cat 1- You Remind Me of You by Eireann Corrigan

Dang. Didn't see the polls were open. Oh well, perhaps next time.