The Next Best Book Club discussion

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

The categories for April and May are:

April - Poetry month (any poetry collection or novel-in-poems)

May - Short Story month (any collection of short stories)


If you nominate the book, and the book is chosen as a group read, you agree to lead the discussion! Don't worry, it's not hard, and we'll love you all the more for it!

Please do not nominate a book more than once. A book can only be voted on once, so multiple nominations within this thread are not counted.

Only ONE nomination per month per person.


Please be sure to post the title, author, and the month you are nominating it for.

Ideally, you can type it as follows -
August - Room - Emma Donoghue

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?

I'll accept nominations through Monday the 18th. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

**Important note: At no time is it acceptable for an author to nominate one of his/her own books for the monthly group read. Likewise, it is not acceptable to "push" nominations or votes within this group. It also follows that "a nomination for a nomination" is not acceptable. If I suspect a push, or inappropriate actions have taken place within the group read nominations or votes, I reserve the right to deem those nominations or votes as ineligible.

April - Possession by AS Byatt.
It's a novel about 2 poets - and Byatt writes poetry in 2 different voices throughout the story. An oldy but goody for sure.

May - At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories - Kij Johnson

APRIL - Novel told in verse ... Crazy by Linda Vigen Phillips

MAY - Short Stories - Arranged Marriage: Stories - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

APRIL - Here Is Where We Disembark by Clea Roberts

MAY - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro

April: Behind My Eyes With CD By Li-Young Lee

May: The House They Couldn't Build by B. Mamatha

Tabitha, I also need the author's name in the posts or they won't count.

I nominate Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger - May/short stories

April - What the Living Do: Poems - Marie Howe

MAY: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Jennifer wrote: " Just read it and loved it. Would be great to find others to discuss it."


Jennifer, you need to follow the proper format (read Lori's initial post), or she won't count it. ;-)

Heather, it doesn't matter. It looks as though Jennifer's book doesn't even fit either monthly theme so it's nixed any way.

Thanks for policing, as always! I'm so thankful that you have my back :)

Nominations are closed.

Polls are open.

Vote for the books you most want to read with us in April and May (one vote per month).

And may the best books win!!

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


polls close on Sunday, March 22.

And the votes are in!

Both of these books won by a landslide so congrats to those who nominated!!


In April we will be reading Possession by AS Byatt (with the discussion led by Jennifer!)

In May we will be reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (with the discussion led by Heather L)

Happy reading everyone! Looking forward to seeing you all in the threads!

Lori there is a new format - if you go to where there is the follow author, to the right there is an arrow, it will come up with a drop-down and send message should be in there

Ahhh Thanks!