All About Books discussion

It's time once again to nominate your choices for our first group classics read of 2021, this time for January and February 2021. 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 1971 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 10 days and will close late on 12 December 2020 or when we hit six books in the poll. The poll will then run until the 19th December 2020.

During this time anybody can nominate and second a book. 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, although please be mindful as our polls do not fill up as quickly as they used to.

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.

I will nominate Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

I'd like to join you and nominate Wives and Daughters.

Mary wrote: "I'd like to join you and nominate Wives and Daughters."

Thank you, Mary.

First book straight to the poll. Five slots left.

if allowed I would like to nominate not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody, with William Hoffer

Katlyn wrote: "if allowed I would like to nominate not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody, with William Hoffer"

That's non-fiction Katlyn.

I would like to nominate Excellent Women

I'll nominate Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier.

I will second Frenchman’s Creek

I will second Barbara Pym's Excellent Women.

I'll give a shout for Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, which I have been meaning to read for some time

Nominated Books:
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Books Going To Poll:
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

Paul wrote: "I'll give a shout for Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, which I have been meaning to read for some time"

Great book Paul! I hope you get around to reading it even if it doesn't make it as a BoTM.

Nominations close in two days

Leslie wrote: "Great book Paul! I hope you get around to reading it even if it doesn't make it as a BoTM."


Thanks Leslie, it is quite high on my TBR!

If it doesn’t win this time Paul, you’re more than welcome to nominate it again in the future.

I would like to nominate Dune by Frank Herbert.

Thank you Steve

Poll is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

voted

LauraT wrote: "voted"

Me too :)