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November 2022 Group Read Nominations
Oooh, great theme! Heehee, this should be fun!
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Thank you, I think we can all really dig really deep with this one! :P
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Another super interesting topic for the month! I'm nominating some books that hit on a lot of different genres where there's something horrible "beneath" the living.Burn Down, Rise Up
The Worm and His Kings
Dragon Head, Volume 1
The Richard Laymon Collection, Volume 9: Endless Night / Midnight's Lair
Earthcore
The Light at the End
Lords and LadiesPiranha
Crabs on the Rampage
Meg
Dead Sea
Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories
Dead Sea
My nomination: Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One by Jack Townsend.And +1 for
The Root Witch and
Cabal
-The Atlantic Abomination-Deep Black Sea
-Cradle Lake
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by Debra Castaneda.I mean the book. There is also a short story."
+1
The Deep by Peter Benchley
I would like to nominate:Harvest Deep by Trent Pettry
Subterrestrial by Michael McBride
The Catacombs by Jeremy Bates
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https://www.amazon.com/Sinkhole-Ken-G..."
Kenneth, authors cannot promote their own books. Feel free to nominate something else.
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Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
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No worries :)
Kasia wrote: "We have already read these titles for a group read so they are not eligible, I did enjoy both tho :)Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling"
Sorry, Kasia. I’m usually good at checking first but just got ahead of myself this time. I've edited my original post to remove The Luminous Dead so we don't have a repeat of last month where people kept voting for a book that wasn't eligible.
Again, sorry for the oversight and thanks for keeping us on our toes!
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They really fit the theme so well, too bad the group already read them, you can always set up buddy reads if others are interested :)
edit: thought I should put down the authors here as well as the link didn't do so. I forgot that was the case.NYC subway/sewers anyone? (subway/metro systems weren't mentioned but I'm assuming they are an okay setting?) :
The Worm and His Kings by ... uh. already mentioned by someone so it's okay I forgot, right?
look i knew the below was co-written by some quasi-celebrity or whatever but it takes place underground and its horror so I'm slapping it down here. whether I own it already or not is totally irrelevant ... :
Awakened by James S. Murray
The Light at the End by John Skipp
YA but fit my underground NYC theme - which I decided was gonna be a thing for me 5 seconds ago or so. pretty self explanatory title if I do say so myself (note- there is another horror book with the same title but different author of course. that one was the already nominated/read book):
Survive the Night by Danielle Vega
This isn't so much a recommendation (officially I mean). more of a mention (honorable I s'pose?) as it's just one story of multiple in an anthology but anywho, Clive Barker has a short story called "The Midnight Meat Train" that takes place in the NYC underground (which yeah was the theme I stuck too. for my own sanity). It's in his Book of Blood: volume 1 - 3 (volume 1 specifically I think if an interested person one owns/purchase/borrows them separately or what-have-you.
apologies - two of these (of my 4 official nominations at least) were already mention. didn't think to look til now. because of course I didn't :/ Mea culpa. I guess those are +1s instead now.
Kasia wrote: "We have already read these titles for a group read so they are not eligible, I did enjoy both tho :)Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling"
Oops! Sorry, Kasia!
Might I suggest The Worm and His King by Hailey Piper then? It’s really weird Lovecraftian queer horror from what I’ve heard.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
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Kasia wrote: "it's already gotten few recommendations."I must be blind, sheesh! 😂😵💫
I see them now, haha.
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This is a selfish vote. I have the book and it has been on my TBR for a little more than a minute.
+1 Harvest Deep+1 My Pretties
I nominate:The Deep
Floating Staircase
The Visitors
I'll do +1 for They Drown Our Daughters and +1 for Beneath the Stairs
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And nominating
[book:Beneath the Stai..."+1
Had to think long and hard but how about From Below
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🍂We're somehow half way through the glorious month of October but it's time to start nominating our November Group read here in HA.
The theme for November is "It Lives Beneath".
Give us your best noms for stuff under water, under stairs, in the basement, anything subterranean under earth and ice, buried places, sewers, forgotten sepulchers, catacombs and cemeteries, give us your most ghastly, creepy scary story ideas so that we can enjoy them together.
Books read or listened to as a group in the past are not eligible, and can be found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Authors may not nominate their own work.
Books with more than one nomination ( +1 ) are more likely to make it onto the final poll, so feel free to second a book you'd like to read with us. Top two books will be winners for our November Group read.
The noms will close towards the end of next week.