June Group Reads ARE......

[Lori, Super Mod]

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And Check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Classics


Only ONE nomination per person.
If you nominate a book for catagory 1, you CANNOT nominate a book for catagory 2, and visa versa.

Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?
I will accept nominations through Thursday evening. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

[Carol]

Cat2. The Quiet Americanby Graham Greene

[Carol]

I do too.

[Bhumi]

2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

[Becky]

Cat 1 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

[Mary]

Cat. 2--Persuasion by Jane Austen.

[Dionisia]

Cat1 - Stitches by David Small

[Bridgit]

Cat 2 East of Eden - John Steinbeck

[Juniper]

Cat 2 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Alaina]

Cat 1: The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall

[KHoopMan]

Category 2: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Shae]

Category 1: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

[Sasha]

Bhumi, if you're looking for company on Anna Karenina, the Classics book club is reading it right now.

[Christine]

Fiona wrote: "1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami"

I second the motion! :)

[Flávia Carvalho]

Category 2: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen

[Kaion]

Cat 1: Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

[Kerri]

Cat 2: Middlemarch by George Eliot

[Sasha]

Ooh, Middlemarch! Good idea. I might not even nominate anything; there are several nominees I'm totally into.

[Karina]

Cat 2. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

[Claire]

Cat. 1 Anne FrankAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

[Sasha]

Y'know, I have never read Diary of Anne Frank.

[Les]

Cat. 1: The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

[Bhumi]

Alex wrote: "Bhumi, if you're looking for company on Anna Karenina, the Classics book club is reading it right now."

Thanks, Alex. I'll go check out their discussion.

[Kimberly]

Kerri wrote: "Cat 2: Middlemarch by George Eliot"

I second Middlemarch! :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

No need to second the nominations guys!

Every nomination, unless incomplete or a prior group read, will be added to the voting polls.

keep those noms coming!

[Sasha]

But we enjoy agreeing with each other, Lori!

[Philip]

cat. 2: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

[Donna]

Cat. 2- The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript by Umberto Eco

[Lori, Super Mod]

That's all good Alex!

I just want to make sure people dont think that by seconding someones nomination, they have used their own nomination.. you know?

[Claire]

Alex wrote: "Y'know, I have never read Diary of Anne Frank."

me neither, Alex - its been on my bookshelf far too long.

[Sasha]

I'm reading Name of the Rose right now, Donna! Just started it. Dude uses a lot of big words.

[Carol]

Read 'Name Of The Rose' years ago.

[Donna]

It's on my TBR for this year so it will be an excuse to get on it.

[Nance]

Cat. 2 - Classics - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I've had this book for awhile and never read it yet.

[Felina]

Nance wrote: "Cat. 2 - Classics - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I've had this book for awhile and never read it yet."

Sooooo good!

[Lisa]

Cat 2: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

[Liz]

Are we allowed to nominate hardbacks? I know some groups don't allow that.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Sure Liz, you can.

[Liz]

Cat. 1 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

[Bridgit]

1. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

[Lori, Super Mod]

Sheila, Bridgit got the nomination in before you. Could you please edit your post to show a something else? No need to waste your nomination....

[Stacey]

Cat. 1: Horns: A Novelby Joe Hill

[Amy]

Cat. 2: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Mita]

Amy wrote: "Cat. 2: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen"

There's never a classic choice without it ;)

[Adrienne]

Cat 2 Don Quixote de Cervantes

[Kaion]

I thought everyone's read Diary of Anne Frank (hell I even had to read the play). On topic, wouldn't it be a classic? (old and popular)

[silvia]

cat 1 Everything Is Illuminated byJonathan Safran Foer

[Sasha]

Don Quixote! I like it, Adrienne. Ambitious.

[Donna]

Liz wrote: "Cat. 1 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith"

I'm in for that one!

[Sasha]

Yeah Kaion, I also missed Red Badge of Courage. And, for that matter, Catcher in the Rye; I caught up to that book in my late 20s, by which time it was too late. No one should read that book who isn't a 15-year-old boy.

Same goes for Dylan Thomas, now that I think about it.