The Challenge Factory discussion

Nominate books for the March group read here!

Rules:
Must be the first book in a series if it is part of a series.
Must be under 350 pgs
Must be under $10
Must have been published more than 6 months ago
The person that nominates a winning book will help a mod run the group read (you will be required to come up with 2-3 discussion questions, your mod partner will create the rest)

***You may nominate one book for the monthly category. This month's category is: Historical (can be either straight History or Historical Fiction)***

Submit your nominations below. Nominations will be open for one week February 1-7.

I nominate The Enigma by Michael Bar-Zohar

The Kindle edition is around $5, it’s also part of KU, unfortunately the paper editions are extremely expensive (more than $100) so should it not work I’ll look for a different book.

Agnieszka wrote: "I nominate The Enigma by Michael Bar-Zohar

The Kindle edition is around $5, it’s also part of KU, unfortunately the paper editions a..."

How about nominating a backup too? We can see how votes go. A lot of people have Kindle so it might not be an issue for many.

In that case I nominate as backup With Music In Their Hearts by Carole Brown
This is another KU book though much cheaper for those who are not member and need to buy it.

I'll nominate The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary which I've read once and found fascinating. It's over $10 but there are lots of used - good condition copies available for less than $10.

I nominate The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
MPG: History
You can find a copy for a lot less than $10.00

Erica wrote: "I'll nominate The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary which I've..."

Too bad none of the Kindle editions are available in Germany :-(

Hey Agnieszka - sorry to hear that. I'll change my book then. Can you get The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary?

Wow, it's harder than I realized to find books for under $10 (but then I usually use the library!) It took me quite a while as I went down my historical shelf to find one. This is the first that matched but it's both historical and a classic--I don't usually shelve classics as a historical but there must have been a reason I did so.

Aha, I made a mistake and only looked at books under 300 pages.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

I nominate :

Mary Jane by Jessica Blau

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

A Tuscany Memory by Angela Petch

A Doctors Daughter by Shari Ryan

Erica wrote: "Hey Agnieszka - sorry to hear that. I'll change my book then. Can you get The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary?"

Just got back online. Thank you for your message and being willing to change book. Unfortunatelly there's some issue with this one in the German shop as well so I can't get it either. I let Amazon know, but have no idea how long it will take to fix it.

It's so frustrating Amazon is making it more and more diffucult to get English language Kindle editions in Germany. If I'd do audio I'd have half as many issues :-(

So frustrating! I don't know what to suggest. Sigh.

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York- 319 pages $9.99 on Kindle

A History of the World in 6 Glasses- 336 pages $9.99 on Kindle

Erica wrote: "So frustrating! I don't know what to suggest. Sigh."

No worries. Should the winner not appeal to me or I can't get my hands on it I'll join another time. Just pick the one you'd like to read most and I'm sure it will work out well in the end.
Thank you anyway for your willingness to go the extra mile.