July 2019 Group Read - Nomination Thread

[Alannah]

t's time to nominate your choice for our July 2019 group fiction read - please use this thread to nominate.

Nominations start today and will close on 10th June 2019 or when we filled the poll with six books.

During this time anybody can either nominate or 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 either nominate one book or second one book. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive.

The poll will then run until the 17th June 2019 and the winner will be announced shortly after. I hope this will leave everybody with enough time to obtain the chosen book.

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, contact one of the moderators or post on 'Ask the Moderators' thread

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

[Alannah]

I am going to start off quickly and nominate Final Girls by Riley Sager

[Kirsten]

I'd like to nominate Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, a retelling of Antigone.

[Alannah]

Kirsten "Ghost Deserved Better" wrote: "I'd like to nominate Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, a retelling of Antigone."

Thank you for your nomination, the book sounds really good.

[Hayley]

The Great Believers by by Rebecca Makkai

(sorry if this has already been done!)

[bookswithpaulette]

Id like to nominate - Recursion by Blake Crouch

[PattyMacDotComma]

Kirsten "Ghost Deserved Better" wrote: "I'd like to nominate Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, a retelling of Antigone."

I'll second Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie. It's been sitting on my TBR list for a while now.

[Joan]

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, although it is a YA novel, I heard an interview with the author and it sounds like a story for everyone.
The link to NPR interview https://www.npr.org/templates/transcr...

[Alannah]

Books Going to Poll:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Nominated Books (waiting for seconds):

Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Recursion Recursion by Blake Crouch
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

[Alannah]

One book already going to poll, five slots left.

[Karin]

I second Recursion.

[Janice (JG)]

I second Home Fire.

[Alannah]

Books Going to Poll:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - with two seconds
Recursion Recursion by Blake Crouch - one second

Nominated Books (waiting for seconds):

Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

[Alannah]

So Home Fire is guaranteed a spot, it can't be moved off. Another book has joined the poll, so we have four spots left.

[Alannah]

Does anyone have any more nominations?

[Nancy]

I would like to nominate The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[Alannah]

Nancy wrote: "I would like to nominate The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón"

Thank you for your nomination Nancy.

[Alannah]

Books Going to Poll:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - with two seconds
Recursion Recursion by Blake Crouch - one second

Nominated Books (waiting for seconds):

Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[katie]

I second the Shadow of the Wind

[Diamond]

Alannah wrote: "Books Going to Poll:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - with two seconds
Recursion Recursion by Blake Crouch - one second

Nominated Books (waiting for seconds):

[book:F..."

I loved Shadow of the Wind years ago. I wouldn't mind a reread.

[Kathy]

I second Final Girls.

[Alannah]

Books Going to Poll:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - with two seconds
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón -with two seconds
Recursion Recursion by Blake Crouch - one second
Final Girls by Riley Sager - with one second

Nominated Books (waiting for seconds):
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

[Alannah]

We now have four books going to poll and two slots left :)

Only two more days to fill them.

[Alannah]

Nominations are now closed! I'm setting up the poll now!

[Alannah]

The link to the poll is here. It will close on the 17th.

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