ManBookering discussion

Hello everyone!

I can't believe it's already time to nominate (and vote for) our next read, in December 2018. Time flies!

As a reminder, here are the rules for nominating / voting:

1. Every member may nominate 1 previous winner excluding the ones that we've read previously (see the list below)

2. Every member may second (or upvote) 2 other nominations by other members (one upvote per book, i.e. you can't give your two upvotes to the same book).

3. If someone has already nominated a book you want to read, give it 1 of your 2 upvotes instead of saying "I nominate x"

The book with the most votes by Saturday 24th November (midnight CET) will be the December pick! As always, the winner will be announced the day after the closing of the voting process.

In the past we have read the following books which are NOT eligible anymore:

-The Luminaries
-The Line of Beauty
-The Blind Assassin
-The God of Small Things
-The Narrow Road to the Deep North
-A Brief History of Seven Killings
-The Sellout
-The Sense of an Ending
-Hotel du Lac
-Midnight's Children
-The Remains of the Day
-Lincoln in the Bardo
-Possession
-The Bone People
-Wolf Hall
-White Tiger
-True History of The Kelly Gang

Happy nominating/voting!
BB

And I will start the nominations by nominating Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, the winner in 1987.

I nominate John Banville, The Sea and I second Moon Tiger.

I second both Moon Tiger and The Sea

I nominate The Conservationist

I'll choose my seconds later

I nominate The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai

I nominate The Old Devils. I will second later

I nominate The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch and second Moon Tiger.

I second The Conservationist and The Old Devils

I second Moon Tiger and The Old Devils

I nominate The Sea, The Sea and second The Conservationist and The Old Devils.

I nominate Saville, but more realistically I second The Sea, The Sea (Murdoch!)

I nominate The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Sylvie wrote: "I nominate The Narrow Road to the Deep North."

Hi Sylvie, I'm sorrry but this book is not eligible anymore (we read it already, see list above). Maybe you have another winner you'd like to nominate instead?

Oops! It'll teach me to read instructions properly. I'd like to second Moon Tiger as I'd love to re-read it.

Second the sea (banville) , and the sea the sea (murdoch)

I will second Moon Tiger and save my other second for later. Thanks for including a link to the book, Brita. Sure saves time.

I'd like to nominate Sacred Hunger since it's been in my TBR pile forever... and that might make me actually read it! :-)

I'd like to second Moon Tiger and The Inheritance of Loss.

I second The Old Devils and Sacred Hunger

I second Sacred Hunger

I would like to nominate the English Patient and second The Inheritance of Loss.

Second for Moon Tiger and The Sea (Banville)

I second The Conservationist and The Inheritance of Loss.

I would like to nominate The Gathering and second The Inheritance of Loss & Moon Tiger

I second Moon Tiger

I second The Sea (Banville) and Sacred Hunger.

The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

I second The English Patient & The Sea

I will use my second "second" for The Conservationist.

Gabriel wrote: "I nominate The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai"

I second The Inheritance of Loss