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It's time to nominate your choices for our next group classics read, for May and June 2024. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1974 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 7 days and will close late on 10th April or as soon we hit six books in the poll. The poll will run for seven days and I will announce the winner shortly afterwards.

During this time anybody can nominate and second a book. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 7-day nomination period will go into the poll. Each person can nominate one book and second one book each. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive, although please be mindful that our polls do not fill up as quickly as they used to.

Please only nominate, second or vote for a book you will read with the group if it should win. Please also check that your chosen nomination hasn't been a group read in the past. You can do this by looking at the group bookshelf or browsing the Group Fiction folder.

If you have any questions on the nomination process please post here, use the 'Ask the Moderators' thread or contact one of the moderators and we will be happy to help.

I nominate The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov.

I nominate Gone with the Wind

Nominated Books:
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Books Going to Poll:

I nominate La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils (256 p., pub. 1848). [aka Camille or The Lady of the Camellias]

Far From the Madding Crowd

Nominated Books:
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Books Going to Poll:

I second Camille: The Lady of the Camellias

While I update, I will also second Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Nominated Books:
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Books Going to Poll:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I would also like to nominee Lark Rise by Flora Thompson: I've been suggested this book by a friend of mine!

Nominated Books:
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Lark Rise by Flora Thompson

Books Going to Poll:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

How about 2001: A Space Odyssey By Arthur C. Clarke published 1968.

Nominated Books:
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Lark Rise by Flora Thompson
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Books Going to Poll:
Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Nominations closed, setting up poll now.

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