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Welcome to May’s Book of the Month Nomination Thread!🥳

Please follow the guidelines below when nominating.

1) You are allowed to nominate a maximum of 3 books for each month's BotM.

2) If someone has already nominated a book that you wanted to nominate, please second it! I will only be picking the top 3-6 books to vote on in the final poll, so the more total seconds a book has, the more likely it will be selected for the poll.

3) If you want to nominate books *and* second books, you need to make sure you do not exceed 6 in total AND that you nominate no more than 3. Some examples:

• If you nominate 3 books, you can only second 3 books.
• If you do not nominate any books, you can second 6 books.
• If you nominate 1 book, you can second 5 books.

4) Also, please do not nominate any books that we have already read in the past couple of years. You can view the books Faith & Fantasy has already read here.

5) The book(s) you nominate must be in the fantasy genre (here at Faith & Fantasy, both sci-fi and fairy tales may be included) and be clean or relatively clean.

6) Try to nominate books that have at least 1,000 ratings (NOT reviews) on GR. This will make it more likely that our libraries will have them. (This isn't a hard and fast rule--just preferred.)

7) Try to nominate books from *Christian authors* as much as possible. It doesn't have to have obvious spiritual themes, but please *don't ever nominate a book with themes that clash with biblical truth*. This is especially important due to the fact that F&F has members of all ages.

Some content guidelines:

• Limited or no profanity. If there is any profanity, it should be on the “mild” side.
• Romantic relationships should be healthy.
• Romantic relationships should not get physical “on the page” beyond what could be done in public. If there has been “off the page” sexual activity, it should be between a married man and woman.
• Think: “If Jesus were to be physically sitting in my living room with me, would I read this book, in its entirety, aloud to Him?"

I will create a poll for us to vote on based on this thread's nominations in approximately 5 days. The poll will be linked in this thread and will be available from F&F's homepage under "Polls".

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them below! Happy nominating!

I nominate the Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross

I nominate Mortal Queens and second The Queen's Rising.

I nominate Goose Girl.

I second Goose Girl.

I nominate:
The Winter King by Christine Cohen
The Green Ember by SD Smith
Outlaws of Time by ND Wilson
I second:
The Goose Girl

I nominate:
1. Cloak of the Light
2. The Prince Warriors

I’m gonna second:
1. Goose Girl
2. The Green Ember

I third The Green Ember.

I second the Queen’s rising
I nominate black: the birth of evil
I nominate this present darkness by frank e peretti
I nominate the wonderland trials

Does Out Of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis count or that more sci fi?

Sci-fi is ok!😊

I nominate:

Shadowcast (<1,000 ratings)
Our Divine Mischief (<1,000 ratings)
Swift (This one might pull Lily back in🤭)

I second Out of the Silent Planet, Swift, and Cloak of Light.

I'll second Out of the Silent Planet

I third Queens Rising

I nominate Deny (the second Blades of Acktar book), and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

That's all my nominations, but I have two seconds left. I think I'll wait a while and see if we get any more nominations.

Bella wrote: "That's all my nominations, but I have two seconds left. I think I'll wait a while and see if we get any more nominations."

Good idea! That's what I'm doing.🤭

I would like to second Green Ember

I nominate The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory

I am going to fifth
Goose Girl &
The Green Ember
and second
Black:Birth of Evil &
This Present Darkness

Stephen wrote: "I nominate a natural history of dragons. Maybe one month it’ll finally win 😅"

Oo, I second that

Crystan wrote: "I am going to fifth
Goose Girl &
The Green Ember
and second
Black:Birth of Evil &
This Present Darkness"

I'm gonna second This Present Darkness

I'm all outa nominations/seconds now

If you do keep it, Bella, I'll second it.

I second both Cloak of the Light and The Prince Warriors

I'm going to second Swift and A Natural History of Dragons for my last 2 :)

My six seconds are all done, forgot to mention.

I second the Green Ember

I second the Wonderland Trials

I second cloak of the light
I nominate wishtress

Andddd I’m done :)

I second:
Out Of The Silent Planet

I second:
Out of the Silent Planet

I second Wishtress

I third Wishtress

Keep ‘em coming 😌 XD

I love Wishtress, but I'm trying to avoid another re-read lol.

lol I getchu

I will make the poll later today, so make sure you have your nominations and seconds posted.

Can’t wait to see what we’re going to read in May!!

I second Shadowcast, and Our Divine Mischief.

Bella wrote: "I second Shadowcast, and Our Divine Mischief."

Good choices, Bella!🤭

I'm not over here making a TBR list a mile long or anything off these suggestions. ;) hahaha ;)

I don't know if they quite fit the rules or not but Stephen Lawhead's "Arthur" is achingly sad. His "Merlin" has one of the best maddness scenes I've ever read and his "Talesin" was a lot of fun. But feel free to disregard those nominations if they don't quite fit. They have closed-door or implied sex scenes. Not like heavy but like a few lines per book that read something like "they made love". (They were married)

Sharon wrote: "Bella wrote: "I second Shadowcast, and Our Divine Mischief."

Good choices, Bella!🤭"

lol. :)

I second:
Swift
Our Divine Mischief
Queens Rising

Btw, just wanted to say, since Clare hasn't, that she was seconding TLtWatW in her previous post.

Bella wrote: "Btw, just wanted to say, since Clare hasn't, that she was seconding TLtWatW in her previous post."

Yeah, I got that, but thanks for confirming. I have started to tally up the books.🌟

Becky wrote: "I'm not over here making a TBR list a mile long or anything off these suggestions. ;) hahaha ;)

I don't know if they quite fit the rules or not but Stephen Lawhead's "Arthur" is achingly sad. His ..."

Is it fantasy or sci fi?

Here is the poll link!! (It won't be available until midnight, I believe.)

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...


I will be locking this thread.