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Polls for CPL's Book a Week Challenge. Showing 1-30 of 105
created Jun 29, 2019 08:30AM PDT
poll #1
Featured
What is your favorite genre?
Fantasy
Mystery
Science Fiction
Thriller
Horror
Contemporary
Non-fiction
Romance
created Jun 26, 2019 09:14AM PDT
poll #2
Which country has won the most Nobel prizes in Literature?
France
United Kingdom
United States of America
Japan
South Africa
Spain
created Jun 24, 2019 08:32AM PDT
poll #3
How many books were purchased from Thomas Jefferson's personal library to restock the Library of Congress after a fire in 1814?
6,487
6,013
6,500
6,356
6,697
created Jan 15, 2019 03:32PM PST
poll #4
February's Theme: Let's Start a Series
Vote now for which book we should read for our Online Book Club.
Vote now for which book we should read for our Online Book Club.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Memory Man by David Baldacci
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
12 total votes
created Nov 01, 2018 07:54AM PDT
poll #5
December's Theme: Fantasy
Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Magician’s by Lev Grossman
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R.R. Martin
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
7 total votes
created Oct 01, 2018 08:15AM PDT
poll #6
November's Theme: Play
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
8 total votes
created Sep 04, 2018 09:20AM PDT
poll #7
October's Theme: Horror
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Shining by Stephen King
Nightshade by John Saul
9 total votes
created Aug 01, 2018 12:26PM PDT
poll #8
September's Theme: Thriller/Suspense
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Testimony by Scott Turow
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Intensity by Dean Koontz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
14 total votes
created Jul 02, 2018 07:35AM PDT
poll #9
August's Theme: Classics (by a Female Author)
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Oh, Pioneers by Willa Cather
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolof
12 total votes
created Jun 29, 2018 01:17PM PDT
poll #10
The Wild Things were going to be which animal (until author Maurice Sendak realized he couldn't draw them)...
Dogs
Horses
Cows
Pigs
Whales
8 total votes
created Jun 28, 2018 04:39PM PDT
poll #11
The protagonist of C.S. Lewis' space trilogy is based off which author...
J.R.R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
William Faulkner
Daphne du Maurier
F. Scott Fitzgerald
0 total votes
created Jun 26, 2018 04:40PM PDT
poll #12
What was the original name of Pride and Prejudice?
First Impressions
Sanditon
A Woman Worth Marrying
Marriage and Money
Vanity and Pride
0 total votes
created Jun 25, 2018 12:43PM PDT
poll #13
While Ray Bradbury is best known for his book Fahrenheit 451, he also wrote the screenplay adaptation to which classic book?
The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Frankenstein (1931)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Moby Dick (1956)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
created Jun 01, 2018 10:25AM PDT
poll #14
July's Theme: Mystery
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Joyland by Stephen King
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
The Bat by Jo Nesbo
13 total votes
created May 02, 2018 01:27PM PDT
poll #15
June's Theme: Non-Fiction
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
On Writing by Stephen King
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Startalk by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
17 total votes
created Apr 02, 2018 08:38AM PDT
poll #16
May's Theme: Classics (by a Male Author)
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 by George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beowulf by Unknown
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
14 total votes
created Feb 28, 2018 07:19AM PST
poll #17
April's Theme: Science Fiction
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
12 total votes
created Feb 02, 2018 06:59AM PST
poll #18
March's Theme: Historical Fiction
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
3 total votes
created Jan 22, 2018 11:27AM PST
poll #19
One of the oldest digital libraries is Project Gutenberg. It was started in what year?
1971
1988
2000
2005
1996
12 total votes
created Jan 16, 2018 10:38AM PST
poll #20
Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Sinclair Lewis
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
12 total votes
created Dec 30, 2017 09:26AM PST
poll #21
February's Theme: Romance
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen
Because You’re Mine by Lisa Kleypas
Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Breathless by Beverly Jenkins
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
A Dangerous Kiss by Francis Ray
8 total votes
created Nov 27, 2017 08:57AM PST
poll #22
January's Theme: Best of 2017
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Vote below for which book we should read for our Online Book Club!
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
18 total votes
created Nov 20, 2017 07:29AM PST
poll #23
One of the books I am most grateful for is...
How can I pick?
Pride and Prejudice
All of them
4 total votes
created Nov 06, 2017 12:32PM PST
poll #24
This author was a childhood neighbor and friend of Harper Lee...
Truman Capote
Joseph Heller
Madeleine L'Engle
J.D. Salinger
7 total votes
created Oct 30, 2017 11:42AM PDT
poll #25
The term, "The Jazz Age," was popularized by which author?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Sinclair Lewis
H.G. Wells
D.H. Lawrence
12 total votes
created Oct 23, 2017 01:46PM PDT
poll #26
Stephen Chbosky, author of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," wrote the screenplays for which two feature films?
Rent and Beauty and the Beast
Grease and Shrek
Hairspray and Moana
Lord of the Rings and Mulan
Chicago and Cinderella
5 total votes
created Oct 16, 2017 09:22AM PDT
poll #27
Which author holds the record for most pen names used?
Daniel Defoe
Stephen King
James Patterson
Mark Twain
Agatha Christie
C.S. Lewis
6 total votes
created Oct 10, 2017 11:35AM PDT
poll #28
This book was banned for 26 years in the People's Republic of China for portraying "early Marxism."
1984
Brave New World
Green Eggs and Ham
Winnie the Pooh
Through the Looking Glass
6 total votes
created Oct 02, 2017 07:12AM PDT
poll #29
Co-authoring is becoming more popular with best-selling authors. It went from 2% in 1994 to what percent in 2014?
20%
16%
10%
9%
25%
5 total votes
created Sep 25, 2017 07:55AM PDT
poll #30
September 24th - September 30th is Banned Books Week! Do you know which was the top banned/challenged book for the years 2000-2009?
Harry Potter
And Tango Makes Three
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Of Mice and Men
His Dark Materials
10 total votes
