Modern Good Reads discussion

It’s time to nominate our NOVEMBER Book of the Month. Let’s let the fun of a new book and discussion begin.

What do you want to read & discuss?

We will be picking from your choices, but one book will be decided by your votes and the second by the moderators. We try to maintain a balance between indie and more mainstream books, and will make sure the final choices reflect the two. If the popular vote is for an indie, then the moderators will choose a mainstream option. If the popular vote is mainstream, then we will chose an indie option.


Please nominate your favorite to our list and we will get the poll up soon. First the ground rules:
- No self-nominations
- Any nominated book must have a minimum of 100 ratings
- The nominations will be open for three days
- Nominations will be listed in a first come first serve manner, with the books with the most nominations heading the list
- Total number of nominations taken for the poll is twenty.
- If you prefer to email me your choices, those will be added at the end of that day’s nominations.

Awakening by Tracey Higley

I nominate Point of Impact

He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.

But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged.

The assassination plot is executed to perfection until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.

Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.

Multi-layered with non-stop action, this hot-shot thriller is addictive, exciting and right on target. A high-tech, high-ride reading experience.

I know it won't win because it's a man's sort of story (full of adrenaline and testosterone) and there are more women in this group than men.

I nominate The Universe Builders By Steve LeBel

Burning Down Rome by Melodie Ramone.

Under the Dome by Stephen King

by Truman Capote

Lily White Lies by Kathy Reinhart

First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

The Interestings By Meg Wolitzer

You by Caroline Kepnes

by Barry Lyga

Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim.

I vote for Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs. Perhaps the best novel I've EVER READ. A good as the movie was, the novel is 10 times better!

End of 1st Nomination Day:
The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
The Universe Builders By Steve LeBel
Under the Dome by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
The Interestings By Meg Wolitzer
You by Caroline Kepnes
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim.
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Three books were not included because they do not meet the 100 rating minimum...
Keep the nominations coming, these are great options!

I second The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory

I'll go with The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory

The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory

Linda wrote: "I nominate The Universe Builders By Steve LeBel"

"God got a C- in Universe Building 101"? lolll
I love that! :)

I nominate Pope Joan:

An international bestseller
"Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama–love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book."–Los Angeles Times Book Review

For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.

Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak–and his identity–and enters the monastery of Fulda. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great scholar and healer. Eventually, she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of love, passion, and politics. Triumphing over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest office in Christendom–wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. But such power always comes at a price . . .

In this international bestseller, Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.

End of Day 2:
4 - The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
The Universe Builders By Steve LeBel
Under the Dome by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
The Interestings By Meg Wolitzer
You by Caroline Kepnes
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim.
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Ninja by Eric van Lustbader's
Pope Joan by Donna Cross

The Girl with all the gifts by M.R. Carey

Here are the nominations for November... Poll will be up shortly.

4 - The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
The Universe Builders By Steve LeBel
Under the Dome by Stephen King
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
First Night of Summer by Landon Parham
The Interestings By Meg Wolitzer
You by Caroline Kepnes
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim.
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Ninja by Eric van Lustbader's
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Girl with all the gifts by M.R. Carey
Better When He's Bad by Jay Crownover