Additional Nominee Read Schedule & Results - 2017

[Lynn, Moderator]

Alongside the group's monthly reads of the award winners, we also have a Monthly Additional Nominee Reads.

Group members will vote on each the awards category nominees (minus the winner of course!) throughout the year to decide which runner up will be the additional group read.

The poll voting is always scheduled so members will have approximately a month's notice before the read is scheduled to start. The schedule and results will be posted below.

New for 2017, once a category poll is closed we will then open up discussion for the rest of the nominee books to set up buddy reads for any members interested.


Additional Nominee Read Schedule

January
Mystery & Thriller - The Woman in Cabin 10

Graphic Novel - Saga, Volume 6


February
YA Fantasy - Heartless

Food & Cookbooks - Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow-Cooker Recipes for Real Life


March
Humour - Scrappy Little Nobody

Science & Technology - Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To


April
Debut Author - Behind Closed Doors

Poetry - Beautiful And Damned


May
Science Fiction - Dark Matter


June
Fiction - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things


July
Historical Fiction - A Gentleman in Moscow


August
Romance - The Hating Game


September
Middle Grade - Pax


October
Memoir & Autobiography - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Horror - Ink and Bone
Picture Book - They All Saw a Cat


November
Young Adult - The Sun Is Also a Star
History & Biography - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race


December
Fantasy - All the Birds in the Sky

Non Fiction - Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

[Lynn, Moderator]

First polls for 2017 are and ready for your votes!

Mystery & Thriller Poll - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Graphic Novel Poll - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "First polls for 2017 are and ready for your votes!

Mystery & Thriller Poll - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Graphic Novel Poll - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."

And the results were:

The Woman in Cabin 10
and
Saga, Volume 6

[Kristie, Moderator]

Woot! I've already read Saga 6. I thought it was a really good addition to the story. I'm looking forward to The Woman in Cabin 10.

[Lynn, Moderator]

I've meant to have read Saga 6 already ...... it's been sat on my bedside table for months now but I'm a bugger for not reading anything that's not on my kindle these days!

This will be a good reason to pick it up :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

The genre threads are available in the buddy read folder to discuss the other nominees and set up buddy reads! I saw that a couple of the other nominees got a few votes, so people may want to read them.

Graphic Novel nominees

Mystery and Thriller nominees

[Savanes]

I need to read Saga 5 but that's a good reason to do so!

[Lynn, Moderator]

We have our next TWO additional reads polls up and ready for you to vote on:

Young Adult Fantasy - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Food & Cookbooks - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Jan 01, 2017 11:59PM PST

[Lynn, Moderator]

February additional reads will be:

YA Fantasy - Heartless

Food & Cookbooks - Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow-Cooker Recipes for Real Life

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yahoo to both! :) I am reading Heartless now and I have a hold on Skinnytaste at my library. I'm not sure if I'll get it on time as the hold list is surprising long, but hopefully.

[Savanes]

Looking forward to heartless!!

[Lynn, Moderator]

Next round of voting is up and ready for you:

HUMOUR - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Feb 01, 2017 11:59PM PST

[Lynn, Moderator]

And the results were:

Humour - Scrappy Little Nobody

Science & Technology - Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

[Lynn, Moderator]

Really looking forward to Scrappy Little Nobody, I have it on audible already waiting for me to start :)

[Vicki Willis]

Oh good!
I really want to read the brain one.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Oh! I have Scrappy Little Nobody on Audible too. :) Looking forward to that one.

Idiot Brain looks interesting, but I probably won't get to it. I'll be curious to see what everyone thinks of it though.

[Kirsten]

I probably won't join in on the Humor category. One of these years the nominees will be actual humor and not just books by celebrities.

I may try Idiot Brain, but it really wasn't my choice.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "I probably won't join in on the Humor category. One of these years the nominees will be actual humor and not just books by celebrities."

Normally I agree wth you Kirsten, but I love Anna Kendrick and when I see her in interviews / read her tweets etc she always makes me laugh. Hence why I'm looking forward to this one.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Next polls are up:

Debut Author - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Poetry - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Mar 01, 2017 11:59PM PST

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "Next polls are up:

Debut Author - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Poetry - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Mar 01, 2017 11:59PM PST"

Winners were:
Debut Author - Behind Closed Doors
Poetry - Beautiful And Damned

[Vicki Willis]

I have already read Behind Closed Doors and thought it was great! I will have to follow along on your thread.

There were a lot of votes for Lily and the Octopus so I am wondering if anyone would like to buddy read it with me this month. I am open to any start date. Will go put a post on the buddy read as well.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Go for it Vicki, I hope you find some to read with ...... I've already read it.

[Kirsten]

Hope you all enjoy Behind Closed Doors as much as I did. One of the most chilling reads I've read in a long, long time!

[Lynn, Moderator]

Science Fiction additional read poll is up and ready - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Mar 31, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "Science Fiction additional read poll is up and ready - https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting ends at: Mar 31, 2017 11:59PM PDT"

Front runner from the start, not a surprise that Dark Matter was the winner of the poll

[Kristie, Moderator]

Not a surprise at all. It seems to be very popular.

[Lynn, Moderator]

The poll for Fiction additional read is ready for your votes: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Apr 29, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Kristie, Moderator]

Woot! What to choose...?

[Lynn, Moderator]

Winner of the Fiction additional read was: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

[Lynn, Moderator]

Historical Fiction poll is up: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: May 27, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

Winner of Historical Fiction additional read was: A Gentleman in Moscow

[Janina]

That is such a lovely novel :)

[Lynn, Moderator]

Poll open for Romance additional read: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Jul 01, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "Poll open for Romance additional read: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Jul 01, 2017 11:59PM PDT"

And we'll be reading The Hating Game

[Savanes]

YES!!!!!

[Lynn, Moderator]

The poll for Middle Grade & Children's additional read is ready for your votes: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Jul 30, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "The poll for Middle Grade & Children's additional read is ready for your votes: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Jul 30, 2017 11:59PM PDT"

Middle Grade & Children's additional read will be Pax

[Lynn, Moderator]

Three polls this month!

MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

HORROR: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

PICTURE BOOKS: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Sep 03, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Savanes]

Voted!! :)

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "Three polls this month!

MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

HORROR: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

PICTURE BOOKS: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."

The group will be reading in October (for additional reads):

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Ink and Bone

They All Saw a Cat

[Vicki Willis]

The Hillbilly book is $15.99 on kindle! Rarely do I see kindle priced THAT high. Am going to see how everyone likes it first.

[Lynn, Moderator]

It's not so bad in the UK - £5.74

That's about half the price ..... it's bizzare how it's different prices in different countries. It's the same bloody book, in the same format, why the wild difference in price?

[Janina]

Prices are very weird. The other day, I bought a (fairly new) German kindle book here in the US and it was less than half the price than if I had bought it in Germany.

I'm in the same boat, but luckily my library has tons of kindle copies of the book, so it shouldn't take too long for my hold to come through. I've had this on my to-read list for a while, so I'm interested in reading it this month.

[Lynn, Moderator]

History & Biography: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Young Adult: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Sep 30, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

Lynn wrote: "History & Biography: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Young Adult: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Sep 30, 2017 11:59PM PDT"

Very happy with the winners this month, I want to read both:
Young Adult - The Sun Is Also a Star
History & Biography - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceTBC

[Kirsten]

The Sun Is Also a Star is terrific!!!!

Can't wait until the author writes a new one.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Time to vote for our last additional reads for 2017 - our December reads!

Fantasy: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Note that a LOT of these books are part of a series, so be careful you've read the previous books.

Non-Fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends at: Oct 28, 2017 11:59PM PDT

[Lynn, Moderator]

And the last poll results for this year's reading are:

Fantasy: All the Birds in the Sky

Non-Fiction: Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

[Kristie, Moderator]

Both of the books I wanted came in 2nd!

[Janina]

I'm quite surprised that All the Birds in the Sky came out as the winner (above A Gathering of Shadows) since the reviews are quite mixed and the writing is often criticized. I've had it on my to-read list for a while, but I've been hesitant due to the many low ratings .. I guess if I have the time, the group read might convince me to give it a try.