2026: Hefty/Husky/Slender Reading Schedule

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Lindenblatt wrote: "For example, 'Atlas shrugged' has not been nominated yet, but is from the original (last year's) list of suggestions.'..."

"Atlas Shrugged" is newly added to the list and not taken from last year.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

For the attention of all members.

In the rules set in msg 1, I have said that the unchosen but supported books will be taken forward. I have failed to mention that the above words refer only to the new books added this year and NOT to the ones taken forward from last year.

To ensure variety, the books not won will be taken forward only a year and not continuously until they're chosen.

I will mark (‡) the ones taken from last year in msg 2, so if you want to read them with the group next year, please make sure they win.

Thanks, and sorry for the omission.

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Anisha Inkspill wrote: "yeah but if every nomination automatically gets one vote then it's still a level-playing field...."

Anisha it really wouldnt be a level field. Your Suggestion is counted as a vote getting it on the list. If you did a supporting vote also it would be out of balance. Your Suggestion and your Supporting Vote is two votes and everyone else will just have one. We have done this process since the beginning.
I am sure (me included) might have missed a person giving a suggestion and counted an extra vote as well.
I list books to give ideas. I do not count them as a suggestion. This process allows the Members total control over what is read.
It is why we call it Suggestion/Supporting Votes.
The suggestion by one person gets it on the list but if another Member does not support it it will not be considered for the reads. We want more than one person reading what is offered.

Years in the past we have had reads where Rosemarie and Kathy would be the only readers. Rosemarie re-reads a lot to help support the Members choice.

Some of us Mods do some things a little different but the basis is still the same. I hope this all helps and I will put this information in the Fundamentals as well. I really hope all the discussion has helped clear it up.

Lindenblatt wrote: ".If the nominator can nominate AND give a vote of support, they'd be counted twice for the same book..."

I appreciate you helping Piyangie with this.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

I agree with Piyangie. We try to be fair and flexible. I moderate Authors from Around the World thread and our process is very specialized to fit the needs of our members who participate in that topic.
I've been in the situations where a book has received many votes but only two members participate. It's frustrating at times.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Shout out to you all for supporting votes (again). We've done well in our hefty and husky. But we have only 5 clear selections for slender. Need to work out one more. So please take a minute and check out the list in msg 2. Thanks.

[Luís]

I support "The Bluest Eye" by Morrison.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Luis. Updated.

[Melanie]

I support Theatre by Somerset Maugham and The House of Ulloa by Pardo Bazan.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Melanie.

All updated upto msg 108.

[Anisha Inkspill]

Lindenblatt wrote: "Hi Anisha, I don't see how it would make any difference result-wise. To my understanding, the nomination does count as the first vote as hopefully nobody nominates a book that they do not want to r..."

hi, I just saw the other posts and read through them

[Anisha Inkspill]

I'm just highlighting how the nominator who has nominated the book is also making a pledge to read that book, so that book has at least one guaranteed reader, which, in this methodology is not noted.

[Anisha Inkspill]

Lindenblatt wrote: "Hi Anisha, I don't see how it would make any difference result-wise. To my understanding, the nomination does count as the first vote as hopefully nobody nominates a book that they do not want to r..."

message 97 - just double checking the following with you

you say:
If the nominator can nominate AND give a vote of support, they'd be counted twice for the same book.



working this out:
as I understand it the nomination is not the book - so that's not a vote but putting the book forward -- but I can see this does not explain.


the way I am working it out is that every book nominated = 1 vote = level playing field

let's say you have a line of people and they all take one step forward, they are still aligned.

to me it's not counted twice just once and it makes no difference

I know maths is a complex subject and there's more than one way to count things

[Anisha Inkspill]

Lesle wrote: "Anisha it really wouldnt be a level field. Your Suggestion is counted as a vote getting it on the list. If you did a supporting vote also it would be out of balance."

hopefully 111 & 112 help, I think, I am not sure but get the sense from your posrt, along with Rosemarie and Piyangie's and book is nominated is counted as a vote.

[Anisha Inkspill]

hi, I just had a thought, thinking through the responses again, I am also wondering if I have been misunderstood.

In message 93 I say:

"why aren't all the books nominated automatically have the nominator's vote to demonstrate the interest in that book"

so not just some of the books or one book but all - as in every single book that is nominated

[Rafael, Brazilian Master of the Bookshelf!]

Anisha Inkspill wrote: "I'm just highlighting how the nominator who has nominated the book is also making a pledge to read that book, so that book has at least one guaranteed reader, which, in this methodology is not noted."

But, by this method, every nominated book has already one support. So, it's pointless.

[Brad]

interested

[Brad]

I've not read Arabian Nights. Support that.

[Paula]

I second The Water Margin

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Brad and Paula!

[Anisha Inkspill]

Rafael wrote: "Anisha Inkspill wrote: "I'm just highlighting how the nominator who has nominated the book is also making a pledge to read that book, so that book has at least one guaranteed reader, which, in this..."

yeah, I guess, if reading is something ypou're used to and comes easy to you

[Anisha Inkspill]

It’s been a quandary of whether I should highlight the following for fear of being misunderstoiod again.

In all this I was just 1 voice comppared to the 4 that responded. I understand this was for support, which I'm fine with but I was still just the 1 : the 4.

There was also no neutral party present to verify first that there had been no misunderstandings before conclusions reached of how my words were interpreted.

The presence of a neutral party woiuld have really been helpful in this instance.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

We are entering the final week for supportive votes. The thread will be closed on 31st October. If you haven't checked us out yet, the list of books are in msg 2. See if you have any that interest you to read next year with us. Thanks.

[Nidhi]

I support:
Hefty:

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand


Husky:
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
Nana by Émile Zola
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Vienna Melody by Ernst Lothar

Slender :
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
The Lusiads by Luís de Camões

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Nidhi. Msg 2 is updated.

[Jen]

Anisha Inkspill wrote: "It’s been a quandary of whether I should highlight the following for fear of being misunderstoiod again.

In all this I was just 1 voice comppared to the 4 that responded. I understand this was for..."

I'm not sure what a neutral party might mean for you, but if it helps, I can say as a fellow member and not a moderator, the way I have understood the process is that a nomination is basically accepted and counted as the vote of the nominator. It being added to the list of books to be voted on is equal to that first vote. I'm not sure if that is clear or that helps but I will just share my two cents in case it does help ...

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Lesle wrote: "I would like to support:
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier"

The only one I can add to this that I have not read that I have interest in would be The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Lesle.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

As the votes now stand, we have equal votes for
2 hefty reads The Tale of Genji and Our Mutual Friend,
2 husky reads Nana and The House on the Strand, and
3 slender reads The House of Ulloa, Passing and The Bluest Eye

If you are interested reading any of them next year and haven't supported already, please do so now.

[Lorraine]

Hefty: Our Mutual Friend
Husky: The house on the Strand
Slender: The Bluest Eye

Thanks Piyangie

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Lorraine.

[Sara]

I would like to support:
Under the Net
and Between the Acts

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks, Sara.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Thanks everyone for all the support given so far for us to choose our reads for next year.

We have come to the last day for support. We have faired well with hefty and husky for our choices. But we have a tie between The House of Ulloa and Passing in slender.

Anyone who hasn't voted for them, please help us break the tie before the day's end.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Hi all. We have closed this thread for support votes. You can now see the chosen books for 2026 in msg 3.

Also, I have taken some liberty (taking into consideration your votes, of course) to make two moderator's choices for hefty and husky respectively. (See msg 2)

As for slender, I, as the moderator, decided to choose The House of Ulloa over Passing. My reason for the choice is to accommodate other language books since
most of the chosen ones are originally written in English. Passing is scheduled for Jan 2027.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

The Reading Schedule is posted in msg 1. Thanks for all your support.

[Lindenblatt]

Thanks for posting, Piyangie. This looks like a good schedule. I assume that Our Mutual Friend should be July-December, not -August?

[Pam, Southwest Enchanter]

Thanks Piyangie! I hope/plan to read some of the slenders. I read House on the Strand several years and it’s still my favorite by Daphne.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Lindenblatt wrote: "Thanks for posting, Piyangie. This looks like a good schedule. I assume that Our Mutual Friend should be July-December, not -August?"

You're welcome, Pam and Lindenblatt!

@Lindenblatt. Thanks for spotting the error. :) It's now corrected.