Poll Open - Sept/Oct 2013 Group Read

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Nominations will be open until September 3 voting until September 9.

The poll is located at https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Please read rules below

General rules for Group Reads

1) If your nomination wins - you will be the discussion moderator.

2) One (1) nomination only per person. Neither self-nominations by authors nor nominations by their respective publishers or publicist will be accepted.

3) Do not cheat or manipulate results. It is not acceptable to create fake accounts to nominate books or vote in polls and it is not acceptable to invite people to the site for the sole purpose of nominating a book or voting for a book in a poll. It is not acceptable to ask for votes or influence the poll in any way. If the moderators feel that a group read poll has been manipulated, the book in question will be disqualified. If the moderators feel that the user(s) are fake accounts, these will be reported to Goodreads for further review.

4) Please do not repeat an author we have read in the last year. Check the bookshelves to see the authors we've read in the past year.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...

5) For your nomination please include Title, Author and Link (Use the "add book/author" link at the top of the comment box).

Since we are an international group, please check to make sure the book is readily available in more than one format. the last thing we want is to nominate a book that no one can get.

Finally, a word about series - the joy or bane of a mystery reader's life! Please consider whether the book you are nominating would be best read by someone who has read all the previous books in the series or can be enjoyed by someone new to the series too.

[Carmen]

I tried the link for last years book list, but it's not working. Says the page can't be found. Is there another link I can use instead? Thanks so much! :D

[[deleted user]]

Thanks for letting us know, Carmen.
I'm working on it...
Watch this space :-)

Here you go: Link to Bookshelf

[Carmen]

Yay--it works! Thank you. :D

[[deleted user]]

You're welcome.
Just a reminder
For everyone's info

You can find the links to the group bookshelf and more by going to the group's home page in the upper-right corner (under your mini avatar) of every page: there is a list of all the permalinks, or whatever they are called: bookshelf, polls, discussions, etc.

[Bill]

Let me be the first to nominate a book; Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson, the first Gaslight Mystery.

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

I'll nominate The First Wave by James R. Benn. I'm curently reading this and really enjoying it. It is the second book in the series but the backstory is addressed in the first few chapters so you do not have to read the first to enjoy the second.

[[deleted user]]

I nominate The Bone Thief by Thomas O'Callaghan, www.thomasocallaghan.com, first in this ongoing series.

[Ann]

I nominate Virals by Kathy Reichs.
Virals

[Soumyashri]

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Soumyashri wrote: ""

Hi Soumyashri. I noticed that this book is the end of a trilogy. Will members who haven't read the first 2 be able to enjoy this book?

Donna

[Matt]

What if my book wins, but I don't want to moderate the discussion. I enjoy reading the discussions of books that I've read, but I'm not really on here enough to moderate a discussion.

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Matt wrote: "What if my book wins, but I don't want to moderate the discussion. I enjoy reading the discussions of books that I've read, but I'm not really on here enough to moderate a discussion."

Hi Matt, Well, moderator duties are not to arduous. Checking in or posing a question every few days to keep the conversation going is all we suggest. Sometimes the conversation just takes off and the moderator really does not have to do much.

[Matt]

Ok, then I nominate Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

It's a little dark and creep at times, but the suspense and build up throughout the whole book made for a very fast and exciting read.

It looks like the movie comes out in 2014.

[[deleted user]]

Bone Thief
This is the link for my previous nomination.

[Cathy]

Matt wrote: "What if my book wins, but I don't want to moderate the discussion. I enjoy reading the discussions of books that I've read, but I'm not really on here enough to moderate a discussion."

Great question and one I've thought of. Thanks for asking Matt.

[Gail]

I nominate Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin.

[Richard]

I nominate my favorite Shirley Jackson -- We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- enough crime to go around!

[Kit]

Richard wrote: "

I nominate my favorite Shirley Jackson -- We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- enough crime to go around!"

I second the nomination.

[[deleted user]]

I'll go with Aftershock by Andrew Vachss.

[Ryan]

I'd like to nominate Head Boy by Mark Wilson.

[Nancy]

I recommend The Pawn by Steven James. I have read the series to date and this is the first book and a good place to start. There is a prequel, Opening Moves, but it was written after four of the books and I think it is better to read it later. Great character development (why you want to read in order) and cool crime solving geek stuff.

[Rakib_khan]

....."52 Pick-Up" by Elmore Leonard.....

[Ken]

Rakib_khan wrote: "....."52 Pick-Up" by Elmore Leonard.....
"

In honor of Leonard's passing, I concur but I nominate Rum Punch. I think it has better characters than 52 Pick-Up.

[Paul]

Ken wrote:

In honor of Leonard's passing, I concur but I nominate Rum Punch. I think it has better characters than ..."

I second that. I've not read Rum Punch but would like to, partly to see how it differs from the film based on it, Jackie Brown.

[Elise]

Matt wrote: "Ok, then I nominate Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

It's a little dark and creep at times, but the suspense and build up throughout the who..."

Excellent book. I just finished it last week. ;)

[Cyn (RaeWhit)]

Ann wrote: "I nominate Virals by Kathy Reichs.
Virals"

I'll second this; it's YA fiction, but an adult would certainly enjoy the entire three-book series.

[Aneta]

I am nominating "The Stranger You Seek" by Amanda Kyle Williams Amanda Kyle Williams

[Paige]

I nominate The Bone Garden and Without Fail - I love the Jack Reacher novels!

[Seeley]

I nominate The Bridge of the Americas: A Jack Sloan Novel by Larry Seeley (my first name is the same as his last name, no relation :)

Peace, Seeley

[Michael]

I nominate Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. It's a little older (2005) but a page turner by anyone's standards and fits the definition of thriller perfectly.

[Shannon]

I nominate by Phillip Margolin

[Philip]

I'll nominate by Giles Foden

[Natalie]

I'll nominate Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino

[Deanna]

Cyn (RaeWhit) wrote: "Ann wrote: "I nominate Virals by Kathy Reichs.
Virals"

I'll second this; it's YA fiction, but an adult would certainly enjoy the entire three-book series."

Please no YA.

[Nadia]

I nominate Ash by James Herbert

[Elise]

Deanna wrote: "Cyn (RaeWhit) wrote: "Ann wrote: "I nominate Virals by Kathy Reichs.
Virals"

I'll second this; it's YA fiction, but an adult would certainly enjoy the entire three-book series."

Please no YA."

Agreed. This is a mystery and thrillers group. There are tons of YA groups if you are interested in that genre.

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Hi Everyone,

We just read a book by Kathy Reichs in June and we do not read another book by the same author in the same year so I'm going to have to disallow Virals by Kathy Reichs for this month's group read.

Donna

[Jannene]

The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

[Theresa]

I nominate Harnessed passion by DT Jones

[Brenda]

The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett

[Magdo]

Heat Wave by Richard Castle

[Cathie]

Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie

[Jannene]

Magdo wrote: "Heat Wave by Richard Castle"

I love this series!

[[deleted user]]

as a newcomer I must ask How do I vote?

[Paul]

Ward wrote: "as a newcomer I must ask How do I vote?"

Hi

We're just at the nominations stage at the moment. When this is closed (any time now) our excellent mods will put up a poll for us to vote.

[[deleted user]]

thank you Paul.

[Seeley]

I nominate a soon-to-be-discovered authors:




Peace, Seeley

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

I'm closing this thread to nominations and I'll get the poll up tonight.

Thanks, Paul, for the kind words :)

Donna