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THE WINNERS ARE:::::

I Capture the Castle (YA)
The People of the Book (Fiction)

Thanks everyone for voting!!!



**VOTING IS NOW OPEN***
Both polls are up.
Voting will close on the 20th, so you have straight through the weekend to get them in.

One vote per catagory!

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Hey everyone. Its about that time again!

Let's start nominating novels we would like to see become a group read for May. There will be two catagories for the novels to be voted in. (1)Regular fiction/non fiction or (2) YA (yes, I know it is not a genre....).

Please nominate one book per person.
YOU MUST HAVE:
title and author
the catagory you are nominating it in

If your post does not have title, author or catagory, it will not be accepted.

It is not necessary to second or third someones nomination. If it is nominated, it will be placed in the voting polls.

I will leave the nomination thread open for 3 days. So we have until Thursday night to get our noms in.

Then, I will create two seperate polls in which we can place our votes.

Let the nominations begin!!!!!

Category 2, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Category 2, Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
I have heard it is a great book.

Category 2: I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

(You'll have to pick something else now, Fiona!)

Is Suite Francaise a YA book?

Category 2: Eragon - Christopher Paolini

Category 1 - Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson

Category 1-Handle with Care-Jodi Picoult

Category 2: A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Sharon wrote: "Category 1 - [b:Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time|49436|Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time|Greg Mortenso..."

Isn't this non-fiction?

Category 1: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

Category 1: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Category 1:
The Shack - William P. Young
Category 2: Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Sorry! Not paying attention!

Category 2:The Midnight Twins by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Mandy and Kristen, please go back to my original post and reread it. You cannot pick two novels to nominate.

please remove one of your choices.

Elizabeth, non fiction is ok to nominate. That is what catagory one is for, regular fiction or non fiction.

Category 2, My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

Sorry Lori! This is my first time nominating! Shame on me for not following the rules.

Category 2: Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Thanks Kristen (post 16)

Lori wrote: "Elizabeth, non fiction is ok to nominate. That is what category one is for, regular fiction or non fiction."

Sorry, Lori. I read novels, and skipped the non-fiction part, which wouldn't be a novel.

Fiona, I meant I read the word novels in Lori's instructions, and skipped her inclusion of non-fiction, which aren't novels.

I should leave the computer. Being largely cooped up for days on end, and now being on the mend, makes one cranky.

For Cat. 1: Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill. (In Canada, it's been published as The Book of Negroes).

Cat 2- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Category 1 - People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Category 2 - Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Category 2 Black and Whiteby Paul Volponi

It's hard to choose... I think I'll go with....

Category 2 - The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

I'm trying to find a good summary of the book to add to the book's info... beware the summaries on Amazon.com! Talk about spoiling the ENTIRE PLOT! (I'm sorry, but in my opinion, plot blurbs (like on Amazon) shouldn't include anything past about 1/3 of the way through the book.)

Category 2: Flight by Sherman Alexie

Young Adult

Category 1--

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

cat 2-- Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Category 1:The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson

PS - I really don't think Suite Française is YA.

Category 2 The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Category 1: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron (NF)

Recap of the nominations so far:

Cat1:
Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky
Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer A Novel - Barbara Kingsolver
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Cat2:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
The Midnight Twins - Jacquelyn Mitchard
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park - Steve Kluger
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
Black and White - Paul Volponi
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
Flight - Sherman Alexie
Crank - Ellen Hopkins
The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen

Keep em coming.
And remember... no author, no nomination!

cat 2, The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

Category 2: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Cynthia,
I think Hunger Games is supposed to be in Category 2.

Cat 1 Unless - Carol Shields

Cat 1
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Cat 1 - Fidali's Way A Novel by George Mastras.

Linda.....
please reread the rules I posted.
I cannot accept your nominations the way they are.
PLease edit them.

Category 1 - let the northern lights erase your name, by vendela vida

Katerina wrote: "cat 2-- Crank by [a:Ellen Hopkins|2821144|Ellen Hopkins|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nopho......"

I just finished Crank, and it is an excellent book. I am going to meet the author, Ellen Hopkins, this weekend at a book festival, where I plan on getting her to sign my copy of Crank and buying its sequel, Glass.

Kathy wrote: "Katerina wrote: "cat 2-- Crank by [a:Ellen Hopkins|2821144|Ellen Hopkins|http://www.goodreads.com..."

I just finished her book Identical. It was really good. Have fun meeting her!!! That is really awesome!!!

cat 2-- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Catagory 1: The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson.

Our local book club has a wide spread of tastes, and this title incited some nice discussion for its cross cultural insights.

category 1= choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Kathryn, I will probably end up buying all of her books while at the book fest, or at least all of the ones available there. I always go overboard at these events.

cat 2: Luthiel's Song Dreams of the Ringed Vale by Robert Fanney

category one

Persuasion by jane austen