November BOTM

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One Day by David Nicholls.

[Terry ~ Huntress of Erudition]

The Color of Light by Helen Maryles Shankman

NEW YORK CITY, 1992. At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel.

Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain.

Then, one of Tessa’s sketches catches Rafe’s attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child. The suitcase at her feet says Wizotsky. Sofia Wizotsky, the love of Rafe’s life, was lost during the Holocaust.

Or was she? Rafe suspects Tessa may be the key to discovering what really happened.

As Rafe finds excuses to interact with Tessa, they cannot deny their growing attraction to one another. It is an attraction forbidden by the Academy Board and disapproved of by anyone familiar with Rafe’s playboy reputation and Tessa’s softhearted innocence.

But Tessa senses the truth: despite his wealth, his women, and his townhouse filled with rare and beautiful treasures, Rafe is a haunted man…for reasons that have nothing to do with the rumors they whisper about him at school.

Intensely romantic and deeply moving, The Color of Light blends fact and fantasy in an unforgettable tale of art and passion, love and war, guilt and forgiveness, spanning the New York art scene, high-fashion magazine publishing, the glittering café society of pre-World War II Paris, and the evil stalking the back roads of Nazi-occupied Europe

[Amy]

What Alice Forgot
The Time Keeper
Memoirs of a Geisha I second (or third) this as it is currently sitting on my bedside to be read
The Shadow of the Wind been on my to-read list for a while

[Amy]

Sarah wrote: "Through the Zombie Glass

Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter!

Excellent, excellent series!"

Agree!! I recently read
Through the Zombie Glass and am currently reading Alice in Zombieland. Excellent series :)

[Amy]

Anna caitlyn wrote: "I nominate the mortal instruments book 1: city of bones by Cassandra Clare "

I'll second this. Picked at random by a friend recently & devoured the entire series! I'd read it again :)

[Anupama]

I nominate The Graveyard Book

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I nominate (JANE, VEGAS PI)Read the reviews...Jane, Vegas Pi

[Hanzy]

I nominateAllegiantUgliesThe Fault in Our Stars

[Amber]

Between the Lines
Memoirs of a Geisha

[Yoga]

I would suggest Picture me gone by Meg Rosoff

[Nat]

I nominate "between shades of gray " and "eleanor & park" too

[Vanessa]

I nominate

[ight imma]

i nominate Model Spy

[Pierre]

W W O A H (World Without a Home): Vol. 1

[Poorti]

It's on my to read list and I'm going to read it this month for sure... after waiting for more than 2 months for this book.. Please let's make this the BOTM. :D

Another suggestion,

I'm currently reading this and it makes a great read if you like psychology and the way research is conducted in that field.

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Hi everyone!

The poll is open. Please cast your vote here:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/9...

Voting will end on Oct 15.

[Tracey]

Do you mind if I make a suggestion for next month? Please don't take it to sound as if I'm complaining because I really do enjoy this group and am excited to see what books get picked each month.

A few of the books listed in the November book list are book #2 or #3 of a series. I didn't see any rules to limit sequels in a series, so maybe there are already rules (listed or not listed) to prevent just sequels winning BOTM.

While I'm okay with the occasional sequel, especially if it's a sequel to a book that the group already read, I do worry that if multiple sequels keep getting nominated, we're going to end up in a situation where only sequels to books are the winners. If that happens, I feel a large number of the group will not be able to read the book of the month because either they didn't like the series, they already finished the series, or they aren't caught up yet.

That being said, a few suggestions I thought of:
- Limit the number of sequels allowed to be voted on
- Set a limit so that at least 1 original book has to be in the BOTM.
- Pick the highest voted on original book to be a BOTM if the highest voted is a sequel to a book the group hasn't read yet.

Please feel free to agree/disagree/comment or let me know if there are rules to prevent all sequels from winning. The reason I joined this group, probably like many others, was to find new books/series to read that I might not read on my own.

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Hi Chase - I actually agree with you. I prefer books that are first in a series where people can choose to continue with it or not or stand-alone books. I think we only have 2 out of 23 books that are the 2nd or 3rd in the series that are in the poll this month. We don't limit them in this group because we figure if enough people vote for it, then there must be a significant part of the group that wants to read it. However, I have had the same thoughts as you regarding only allowing one to be BOTM. I think that's a decision that Laura should be in on, since this was her original group.

[Laura]

Hey Chase, I agree also!

[Laura]

@ Nat
Between Shades of Gray was an excellent book!

[Jodi]

Laura wrote: "Hey Chase, I agree also!"

I too agree. If I haven't read the first in a series, I won't be able to read the book of the month. If one of the monthly books was for sure a stand alone book or the first in a series, that would be better.

[Alie]

I hope you don't mind me nominating a couple books, because there are so many book genres it is difficult to pick just one.
One I would nominate would be The Last Living Slut which is about an Iranian girl who moved to london as a teenager, and her story as she dived head first into the london rock scene and sexuality at it's finest, going against the culture she was brought up in. Warning: The book can be very graphic but makes a very interesting read.

And then I would also like to nominate White Oleander which many of you may have seen the movie. It is about a girl whose strong-willed feminist mother kills a guy, and how she got shipped from different foster homes, and everything she experienced with it.

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Hi Alienicole - Sorry, but the nominations for November have closed and the poll is now open. Please feel free to nominate for next month. You can vote on November's poll here:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/9...

[Alie]

So sorry, this is my first week on Good Reads and I got really excited about your group.

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

No worries! Welcome to the group. I hope you vote and have fun participating in the group reads. :)

[Courtney]

i HIGLY reccomend the tigers curse series it was AMAZING

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

The two winning books for November are: Allegiant and Eleanor & Park. Threads will be up soon.

[Natalie]

@Kristie: Do my books not fit the typical nominations in this group? I noticed how they didn't appear in the poll even the I add them before you closed the nominations.

[Zoobaaruba]

Natalie wrote: "@Kristie: Do my books not fit the typical nominations in this group? I noticed how they didn't appear in the poll even the I add them before you closed the nominations."

I think they have to be seconded to go in the poll

[Shannon]

i nom
by John Saul
by Dean Koontz
by Phillip Margolin

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[Mollydee]

I thought I already voted but I guess not. If I did I would like to change my vote. What I want is to second
The Last Overseer

I have started it and it is like nothing I have read before. I just know everyone will like it. Check it out and check out the authors facebook page! :)

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Hi everyone -

This nomination ended on October 6. The poll closed on October 15.

The winning books for November were Eleanor & Park and Allegiant.

Please feel free to nominate your books when the December BOTM nominations thread opens - around November 1st.