November 2025 - Fiction Group Read - Nomination Thread

[Alannah]

It's time to nominate your choice for our November 2025 group fiction read – please use this thread to nominate.

Nominations start today and will close on 8th October 2025 (or as soon as the poll has six books).

During this time anybody can nominate and second one book each. You cannot second the book you have nominated. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 7-day nomination period will go into the poll. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive, although please be mindful of this as most times we do not receive enough nominations for the poll to open.

The poll will then run until the 15th October 2025 and the winner will be announced shortly after. I hope this will leave everybody with enough time to obtain the chosen book.

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, contacting one of the moderators, or posting on the '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.

[Greg]

I nominate Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

[spoko]

I nominate The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (304 p., pub. 2014).

[Greg]

spoko wrote: "I nominate The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (304 p., pub. 2014)."

I will second this

[Greg]

Thanks for the nomination spoko. I hadn't heard of it, but it looks good!

[Erica]

I'd like to nominate The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey.

[Nidhi]

I second The Book of Guilt and nominate No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

[Alannah]

Nominated Books:
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Books Going to Poll:
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey

[Alannah]

I nominate Audition by Katie Kitamura

[spoko]

Greg wrote: “Thanks for the nomination spoko. I hadn’t heard of it, but it looks good!”

I hadn’t either, until another of my book groups chose it. So I’m double-dipping a bit 😊 but I think it looks pretty good.

[Jade]

Alannah wrote: "I nominate Audition by Katie Kitamura"

Second this.

[Jade]

I nominate Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

[Steve]

I second Autobiography of Red

[Erica]

I second Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

[Alannah]

Nominated Books:
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Books Going to Poll:
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

[Alannah]

One spot left.