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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 for May and June are:

May = Short Story Theme (a collection of short stories or flash fiction)

June = "Beach Read" theme (something you can easily chew through while chilling on the beach or in the backyard)


If you nominate the book, and the book is chosen as a group read, you agree to lead the discussion for that month! Don't worry, it's not hard, and we'll love you all the more for it!

Please do not nominate a book more than once. A book can only be voted on once, so multiple nominations within this thread are not counted.

Only ONE nomination per month per person.


Please be sure to post the title, author, and the month you are nominating it for.

Ideally, you can type it as follows -
August - Room - Emma Donoghue

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

Are you ready?

I'll accept nominations through the 21st. 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!

**Important note: At no time is it acceptable for an author to nominate one of his/her own books for the monthly group read. Likewise, it is not acceptable to "push" nominations or votes within this group. "A nomination for a nomination" is also not acceptable. If I suspect a push, or inappropriate actions have taken place within the group read nominations or votes, I reserve the right to deem those nominations or votes as ineligible.

I nominate:

May - Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl

June - Last Summer by Evan Hunter

May: Broken Record Nostalgia: Stories by Caleb Michael Sarvis

June: River Road by Carol Goodman

May - At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories - Kij Johnson

June - Ten Beach Road - Wendy Wax

May - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King

you didn't send it out in a message like you usually do?? that is usually what prompts me to nominate and vote

June - The Good Girl - Mary Kubica

May - Fortune Smiles - Adam Johnson

June - The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

May - Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
June - Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

May -- The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway

May I second Ethan's June suggestion of The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ?

Hey all! Sorry for the delay. I was travelling for work for the last week.

The nominations are closed, and the polls have just opened!!!!

Go and vote for the books you would most like to read along with us
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Polls close on the 28th.

Thanks to everyone who nominated!!!

Oh no! We have a three way tie for May's Short Story collection and a two way tie for June's Beach Read.

That means we gotta revote!!!

Everyone back to the polls to break these ties : )
Tie breaking round ends on Monday.

Go.......


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