Nominations for Summer 2022 Group Read

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

It's been a while since we had a group read other than new releases.
Please post here during the month of April what you would like to read this Summer. I'll plan to create a poll based on the nominations by the end of the month. I'm anticipating the Summer Group Read starts Memorial Day Weekend and Ends Labor Day Weekend. We can feature more than one title. We will already be featuring Dean's new summer release, The Big Dark Sky (July New Release), so nominate previous released titles that'd you like to read.
Thank you!

[Mary]

Lightning
Velocity
Chase
Ice Bound

Watchers

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Mary wrote: "Lightning
Velocity
Chase
Ice Bound

Watchers"

Thanks Mary!

[Pål]

- The Frankenstein books
- The City
- Life Expectancy
- The Husband

[Charles]

eragon book one of the inheritance series

[Megi]

-The Husband
-The Other Emily

[Cyl]

Megi wrote: "-The Husband
-The Other Emily"

Diablo Mesa by Preston and Child

[Diane Lynch]

Elsewhere

[Susan]

Frankenstein (give me a reason to go back and finish it)
Fear Nothing and Seize the Night

[Diane Lynch]

If love Frankenstein series too

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

clarification: only books authored by Dean Koontz are eligible for nomination.
Thank you!

[Diane Lynch]

I didn’t know Dean Koontz wrote The Other Emily or Elsewhere until this week.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I prefer Elsewhere. The Other Emily is pretty weird.

[C.P.]

I liked Elsewhere well enough. I didn't like The Other Emily much at all.

[Megi]

I have 'The Other Emily' in my Kindle Unlimited library. If it is too weird, I'll read it alone. I don't mind. I haven't read it yet. Hopefully whatever we choose I can get in Unlimited OR I already have a copy. I'm excited either way.

[Misty]

Can I suggest One Door Away From Heaven, False Memory or Winter Moon? All are titles I haven’t read in forever and it would be nice to have a specific reason. I remember loving False Memory especially.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Misty wrote: "Can I suggest One Door Away From Heaven, False Memory or Winter Moon? All are titles I haven’t read in forever and it would be nice to have a specific reason. I remember loving False Memory especia..."

Yes. Thank you!

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Here is the complete list of nominations so far:

Novellas/Short Stories:
Chase
Wilderness

Series:
Frankenstein
Moonlight Bay AKA Chris Snow

Stand Alone Novels:
Lightning
Velocity
Icebound
Watchers
The City
Life Expectancy
The Husband
The Other Emily
Elsewhere
One Door Away From Heaven
False Memory
Winter Moon

[Kateblue]

I have never read the Frankenstein books, so I will not nominate, I will just go for them.

[Vonda]

Odd Thomas

[Diane Lynch]

Frankenstein series and Elsewhere

[Rawles]

I bought a $1 copy of Life Expectancy at my local used bookstore last year so I vote for that one! But also have never read the Frankenstein series so would be cool with that. Currently listening to the Nameless series; anyone else?

[Mary]

Rawles,
My very favorite series is Nameless and the second is the Jane Hawke series.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Here is the complete list of nominations so far:

Novellas/Short Stories:
Chase
Wilderness

Series:
Frankenstein
Moonlight Bay AKA Chris Snow
Odd Thomas

Stand Alone Novels:
Lightning
Velocity
Icebound
Watchers
The City
Life Expectancy
The Husband
The Other Emily
Elsewhere
One Door Away From Heaven
False Memory
Winter Moon

Poll will begin by the end of the month, perhaps sooner since we have a great list already. Thank you!

[C.P.]

There are some on here I haven't yet read and some I would love to revisit. I'm excited to see what gets chosen!

[Rawles]

Mary wrote: "Rawles,
My very favorite series is Nameless and the second is the Jane Hawke series."
I loved Jane Hawk too!!!! Have listened to just the first three Nameless stories. Definitely on the more violent side (that LION), but still love the premise. Thanks for your comment!

[Kateblue]

I have not read Jane Hawk, either. I would not mind it that series were chosen. I did read all of Nameless, though. Some I loved, some not so much

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thank you to everyone who has commented in this thread.
Nominating is now closed and Poll is active.
You can vote or change your vote now through May 15th.
Summer Group Read begins Memorial Day Weekend, we'll be featuring more than one title based on the poll results.
Link to Summer Group Read Poll: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Mary]

Only one vote?

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Mary wrote: "Only one vote?"

I don't know how to allow more than one vote per person.

[Mary]

Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Mary wrote: "Only one vote?"

I don't know how to allow more than one vote per person."

I'm getting greedy seeing all the books I would love to win this nomination!

[Diane Lynch]

You can do a second poll so people can give their number 2 favorite. Then use the top combined winners. State this is your second choice or alternate choice poll separate from this poll

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Diane Lynch wrote: "You can do a second poll so people can give their number 2 favorite. Then use the top combined winners. State this is your second choice or alternate choice poll separate from this poll"

I could definitely do that.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Poll for your second choice: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Megi]

If we end up with a series read, how do we go about it since we will be on different books at the same time?

[Pål]

A discord server is a really great and easy place to discuss books. We could create one for this book club and have a channel for each book, and maybe a spoiler channel for those who have read all the books or are rereading.

[Vonda]

I would be happy with Lightning too. maybe I should have voted for a standalone instead of a series.

[Mary]

Vonda wrote: "I would be happy with Lightning too. maybe I should have voted for a standalone instead of a series."

Hi Vonda,
You can change your vote easily...Can you tell I want Lightening to win? HAHA

[Vonda]

hee hee. i will read lightning anyway!

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Megi wrote: "If we end up with a series read, how do we go about it since we will be on different books at the same time?"

There will be at least one series featured this Summer (possibly two). We already have discussion folders for each series set up on the discussion board (homepage). A new discussion thread will be set up for each book, there are five Jane Hawk novels and five Frankenstein novels (these are the series most likely to be featured). The older discussion threads from when the series were previously featured will still be available to browse and comment.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Vonda wrote: "I would be happy with Lightning too. maybe I should have voted for a standalone instead of a series."

Most likely there will be at least two stand-alone novels and at least one series featured.
After the polls close, there will still be choices about how many Dean Koontz books you want to read this summer.

The Big Dark Sky is a new JULY release.

[Vonda]

So many good choices

[Diane Lynch]

Sounds good❗

[Diane Lynch]

Thank you

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Vonda wrote: "So many good choices"

Vonda wrote: "hee hee. i will read lightning anyway!"

Vonda wrote: "I would be happy with Lightning too. maybe I should have voted for a standalone instead of a series."

Lightning is doing well on both polls and will most likely be featured.
We will probably not be featuring Odd Thomas. I know you nominated it, but Jane Hawk and Frankenstein have not been featured in recent years - since they are both doing well on the polls we can probably feature those two series this summer. Moonlight Bay/Chris Snow was featured last summer.

Anyone can vote or change their vote through Sunday, but right now the winning contenders are Jane Hawk and Frankenstein for Series, Lightning and Watchers for Stand-alones.

[Vonda]

I like the options.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Well, there were certainly a lot of nominations to narrow down :-)

We'll know for sure in a week and I'll set up the discussion threads next week.

[Thomas]

Tick Tock
The Good Guy

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thomas, nominations have closed.
Please vote on the group polls.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thank you to everyone who nominated titles and voted on the polls to select our Summer Group Reads. Winning titles stayed pretty consistent with no last-minute shake ups in the polls.

Two series and two stand-alone novels will be featured during Summer 2022. I'll get the new discussions set up this week, but you can get your books ready now :-)

Winning Selections:
Jane Hawk Series
Frankenstein Series
Watchers
Lightning