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It's time to nominate books for our BotM in January 2024. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.

Rules:
� Please nominate only ONE book.
� Books do not need to be seconded.
� Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
� If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)[
All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Giver
The Light Between Oceans
Little Women
The Lost Apothecary
Me Before You
The Night Circus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Project Hail Mary
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Shining
The Silent Patient
Where the Crawdads Sing
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� Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
� Do not use this thread for author (self-)promotion.(Any attempts at promotion will be removed.)
� No erotica.


Additional tips -
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NOMINATIONS
Bookshops & Bonedust
The Woman in Me
Lucky Red
The Future
China Dolls
Salt to the Sea
Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow
The Martian
The Last Love Note
A Thousand Ships
The Daughters of Block Island
Bright Young Women

I nominate Bookshops & Bonedust

by Travis Baldree

I nominate The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe

ltn wrote: "Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe"

Hi, as this book has not been published yet (and may not be while the voting is ongoing), can I ask you to postpone nominating this to a later BoTM and suggest another one for January?

I nominate:
The Future by Naomi Alderman
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I will nominate .

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys.

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Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow by Blythe Baker

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The Last Love Note

I would like to nominate A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

I would like to nominate:

The Daughters of Block Island

by
Christa Carmen

In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an island mansion lures two sisters into a spiderweb of scandal, secrets, and murder.

Two sisters, strangers since birth yet bound by family secrets, are caught up in a century-old mystery on an isolated island.

After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the heroine of a gothic novel—the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt its halls? But before Blake can discern the novel’s ending, she’s found dead, murdered in a claw-foot tub. The proprietress of White Hall stands accused.

Summoned by a letter sent from Blake before she died, Thalia Mills returns to the island she swore she’d left for good. She finds that Blake wasn’t the first to die at White Hall under suspicious circumstances. Thalia must uncover the real reason for Blake’s demise before the forces conspiring to keep Block Island’s secrets dead and buried rise up to consume her too.

I would like to nominate Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll.