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It's time once again to nominate your choices for our group classics read, this time for March and April. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book that was first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1970 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 7 days and will close late on 10th February. The poll will then run for a week from the 11th until the 18th February.

During this time anybody can nominate and second one book each. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 10 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.

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 or browsing through the Group Fiction folder.

If you have any questions on the nominations process please post here, use the 'Ask the Moderators' thread or contact one of the moderators and we will be happy to help

crime and punishment

Thank you Jane

Nominated Books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

How about 2001: A Space Odyssey by A C Clarke - 1968

I’ll nominate Orlando.

Thank you for your nominations so far. I'm adding them all to the list.

Nominated Books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

A passage to India?

I'd like to nominate Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

And I'd also like to second A Passage to India

Chavelli wrote: "A passage to India?"

I’m sorry, I can’t accept this as this has already been a group read last year. You are welcome to nominate again.

Maria wrote: "And I'd also like to second A Passage to India"

Sorry Maria, I can’t accept your second as the book has already been a group read. You are welcome to second another book.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The link is here so you are welcome to join in there if you have read the book.

Nominated Books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Well, since I just read it a year or so ago so could still discuss it, I'll second 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm a.ready in the midst of reading a Trollope series.

Karin wrote: "Well, since I just read it a year or so ago so could still discuss it, I'll second 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm a.ready in the midst of reading a Trollope series."

Thank you for seconding Karin.

I'm going to second Orlando.

Nominated Books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Books Going To Poll:
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Two books in the poll already, four more spaces.

I am seconding Crime and Punishment

I second Orlando

Nominated Books:
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Books Going To Poll:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

I'll second Orlando

I'll nominate The History of Mr. Polly

Nominated Books:
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells

Books Going To Poll:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

I second Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Diana S wrote: "I second Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

Thank you Diana.

Nominated Books:
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells

Books Going To Poll:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Four spots taken, two more to go.

I would like to nominate The Toilers of the Sea.wrote

It is the third book of three that Victor Hugo wrote. The other two were Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

I have to find a quote.

PREFACE
Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man. They constitute at the same time his three needs. He has need of a faith; hence the temple. He must create; hence the city. He must live; hence the plough and the ship. But these three solutions comprise three perpetual conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life results from all three. Man strives with obstacles under the form of superstition, under the form of prejudice, and under the form of the elements. A triple ἁναγκη weighs upon us. There is the fatality of dogmas, the oppression of human laws, the inexorability of nature. In Notre Dame de Paris the author denounced the first; in the Misérables he exemplified the second; in this book he indicates the third. With these three fatalities mingles that inward fatality—the supreme ἁναγκη, the human heart.

Hauteville House,

March, 1866.

I have read the other two but not The Toilers of the Sea

Cosmic wrote: "I would like to nominate The Toilers of the Sea.wrote

It is the third book of three that Victor Hugo wrote. The other two were Les Misérables and [book:Th..."

Thank you for your nomination.

I'm going to change my second from Orlando to The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells, it will stay in the poll as two others have seconded it.

Nominated Books:
Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope

Books Going To Poll:
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

We are on the last day of nominations. I hope to open the poll tomorrow.

Nominations closed

Poll is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...