All About Books discussion

It's time to nominate your choice for our June and July 2019 group non-fiction read - please use this thread to nominate.

Nominations start today and will close on 17th May 2019 or when we filled the poll with six books.

During this time anybody can either nominate or 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 either nominate one book or second one book. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive.

The poll will then run until the 25th May 2019 and the winner will be announced shortly after. I hope this will leave everybody with enough time to obtain the chosen book.

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, contact one of the moderators or post on '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.

Considering how many people are presently enjoying either reading or watching the series Outlander, I would like to nominate Culloden by John Prebble

Nancy wrote: "Considering how many people are presently enjoying either reading or watching the series Outlander, I would like to nominate Culloden by John Prebble"

Thank you for your nomination Nancy.

I’m all set to read Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City and I’d love to read it with a group. I saw her at a literary festival last weekend and it sounds like a fascinating book.

Chinook wrote: "I’m all set to read Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City and I’d love to read it with a group. I saw her at a literary festival last weekend and ..."

I'm going to second this. The topic is something I've been interested in for a while since I studied empire and a small portion of it mentioned indigenous people, this was around the time a couple of documentaries came out which exposed the way some communities were treating the indigenous people. This is a book I would love to read.

Also, Chinook, it's lovely to see you back here. You've been missed.

Nominated Books.
Culloden by John Prebble

Books Going To Poll:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

Alannah wrote: "Chinook wrote: "I’m all set to read Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City and I’d love to read it with a group. I saw her at a literary festival l..."

Thanks! Things got very busy for awhile there, but we moved to Canada and so my oldest is in full day Junior Kindergarten now and I think I may actually find some extra time to read and talk about books at the same time!

this is going to hurt Adam Kay

I nominate The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly . Thanks. --Jen from Quebec :0)

I'd like to nominate Educated, the amazing autobiography by Tara Westover.

Chinook wrote: "Alannah wrote: "Chinook wrote: "I’m all set to read Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City and I’d love to read it with a group. I saw her at a lit..."

That's great to hear you're doing well, fingers crossed you can get back to reading.

Nominated Books.
Culloden by John Prebble
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly
Educated by Tara Westover

Books Going To Poll:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

Hi everyone


I'll nominate Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by the excellent Hannah Fry.

Nominated Books.
Culloden by John Prebble
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly
Educated by Tara Westover
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

Books Going To Poll:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

Paul wrote: "Hi everyone


I'll nominate Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by the excellent Hannah Fry."

Thank you, Paul, and everyone else for your nominations so far.

i would like to nominate The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer

Samantha wrote: "i would like to nominate The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer"

Thank you for your nomination, Samantha.

Nominated Books.
Culloden by John Prebble
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly
Educated by Tara Westover
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer

Books Going To Poll:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

I second The Graves are Walking.

All great nominations, though, thanks everyone!

Does The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock qualify ?

I'll second This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

I second Educated

I second Culloden

katie wrote: "I second The Graves are Walking.

All great nominations, though, thanks everyone!"

Thanks, katie! Fingers crossed. --Jen from Quebec :0)

I second Culloden.

Okay, the book I was going to second has been seconded already!

Karin wrote: "Okay, the book I was going to second has been seconded already!"

No limit on how many seconds a book can recieve, a book with two seconds has more guarantee of making it to poll if more than six books are seconded.

Nomination Thread closed, will set up the poll later.

Thank you for your nominations, the poll is linked here:


https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...