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3rd Quarter 2025 Long Read Nominations
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3rd Quarter 2025 Group Long Read nominations are now open! Please review the requirements below for book eligibility.
1. Eligible books must be a minimum of 600 pages in length. Nominations need to be a book, not a series of books nor an omnibus of books.
Any books read within the past three (3) years are not eligible. In the interest of variety, please wait a month to renominate a book that has been in any poll.
2. Long Read Nominations must meet the same requirements as books being nominated for our New School and Old School monthly reads. Nominated books must be published during or before 2005.
3. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.
4. Only seven books, by seven different authors, will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.
5. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.
5a. A second can be withdrawn and placed on another choice. This change must in some way be noted in a post such as, "I am withdrawing my second for book A and placing it on book B." It will be easier for moderators to track changes.
6. Only one book per author; in the event of more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.
6a. Same author-multiple categories. The same author may be nominated in multiple categories in a single month as long as the nominations are for different books. In the case of identical nominations, precedence will go to the first one to receive a second.
7. Availability: Members nominating for a monthly Group Read will need to check that a copy of the text is reasonably available for members, and is available in English. Moderators may disallow a nomination if a copy is not readily available.
Nominations will remain open until the 14th of the month. Polls will open on the 16th and run until the end of the month.