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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.

Ideally, you can type it as follows -
Cat 1. Room - Emma Donoghue

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

Are you ready?

I will accept nominations through Tuesday. 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!

Cat 1. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Lisa wrote: "Cat 1. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters"

Lisa- if you look at the group bookshelf you'll see that Fingersmith has already been a group read and can't be nominated again. Feel free to nominate something else though.

Eek! This happens more and more often now. We've been doing group reads for so long that we are bound to get noms for things we've read in the past... hahaha

Lahni wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Cat 1. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters"

Lisa- if you look at the group bookshelf you'll see that Fingersmith has already been a group read and can..."

OOps...sorry. I usually check but forgot to this time.

Cat. 2 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cat1--Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Cat 1 The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Paul wrote: "Cat1--Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem"

Oh yes! This is a must-read! :)

Cat 2 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

HANG ON, I TAKE THIS BACK, JUST SAW IT'S BEEN READ, BRB WITH A PROPER NOMINATION

Cat 1 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray seeing as I was so hoping it would win last time and would love to read it as part of a group!

Cat 1 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
It's on the bookshelf but doesnt have a date so I'm assuming hasn't been read. Can I still nominate this book? Been looking forward to it for a while now..

Cat 2 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Cat. 1 - Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Cat 1 - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Cat2 Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

I checked and didn't see where this had been a group read yet - Category 1: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. The movie is coming out this summer.!

Cat 2: The Prophecies of Nostradamus by Nostradamus

Since my first choice was already a Group Read, I will go with...

Cat. 1 Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Cat. 2 - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sanjana wrote: "Cat 1 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
It's on the bookshelf but doesnt have a date so I'm assuming hasn't been read. Can I still nominate this..."

Where do you see this book on the groups bookshelves? It should not be there, we never voted it in as a group read....

Cat. 1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Cat. 2 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

Cat. 2 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Cat. 1 The Little Stranger-Sarah Waters

Cat 2- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

This is the part I hate the most. Compiling the list and creating the polls... hahaha...

Ok, here is what we are looking at for June:

Cat1
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters


Cat2
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
The Prophecies of Nostradamus - Nostradamus
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

I am creating the polls. Please do not cast any votes here. I will post again once the polls are open. They will remain open until Sunday.

Ok ... Polls are up!

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

1 vote each category. The polls end Saturday night!!!
May the best books win!

Cat 1 - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

Lori - Wasn't The Count of Monte Cristo already a group read? It's on the shelf.

Monef.. the nominations are closed. I just announced it in the post above yours.

Lahni wrote: "Lori - Wasn't The Count of Monte Cristo already a group read? It's on the shelf."

I just removed it. I hadn't meant to add it originally, but I was in such a rush to get the list up that I forgot! Thanks for pointing it out.

I would appear that the group read polls are being forced again by numerous fake accounts.

I am asking that the person/people behind those accounts kindly remove their votes.

It is not fair to the other members to create blank accounts simply to push a book as a group read.

OK guys... you be reading

THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE SCARLET LETTER for June!!!

We are also participating in an author/reader discussion of AND YET THEY WERE HAPPY.

Lots of good reading to be had!!

I won't get into The Handmaid's Tale again - thought that depressing.

But The Scarlet Letter - ok ... don't think I ever read it. Probably saw the movie at one time or another.

Here it is done up at LibriVox if anyone wants to do it on audio ...

i might try the scarlett letter...i need to read some more classics/listen to some more classics

Carly wrote: "I won't get into The Handmaid's Tale again - thought that depressing.

But The Scarlet Letter - ok ... don't think I ever read it. Probably saw the movie at one time or another.

Here it is don..."


The Scarlet Letter isn't exactly uplifting either!

I should have a LOT more reading time next month so I'm hoping to participate in one or two of the group reads! Completely failed this month, grrr university.

Wow, I think I might actually get to read along with the group next month! I have The Handmaid's Tale at home and have been planning to read it some time soon. This is just the push I need.

Guys, I met Margaret Atwood at BEA yesterday! And I told her that our group voted in Handmaids Tale for June. She is such a wonderful sweet person.

Lori wrote: "Guys, I met Margaret Atwood at BEA yesterday! And I told her that our group voted in Handmaids Tale for June. She is such a wonderful sweet person."

Wow, that's amazing, Lori! Atwood is my absolute favorite author :-)

I know. I couldnt believe my luck!

how fun! hope you are enjoying the show!!