July and August 2025 - Classic Group Read - Nomination Thread

[Alannah]

It's time to nominate your choices for our next group classics read, for July and August 2025. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1975 or earlier.

Nominations will run for 7 days and will close late on 11th June 2025 or as soon we hit six books in the poll. The poll will run for seven days and I will announce the winner shortly afterwards.

During this time anybody can nominate and 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 nominate one book and second one book each. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive, although please be mindful that our polls do not fill up as quickly as they used to.

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 or browsing the Group Fiction folder.

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

[Nidhi]

I nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

[Jade]

Nidhi wrote: "I nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway."

Second this.

[Alannah]

Nominated Books:

Books Going to Poll:
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

[LauraT]

I was thinking of re-reading the Palliser series by Trollope; shall we start from the first Can You Forgive Her?

[Nidhi]

Yes, Laura. I second Can You Forgive Her.

[Alannah]

Nominated Books:

Books Going to Poll:
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

[Diana S]

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

[Tatyana]

I second North and South

[Jade]

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Alannah]

Jade wrote: "Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen"

Second this.

[Alannah]

Nominated Books:

Books Going to Poll:
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Alannah]

Poll linked here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...