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Welcome to November’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. For example:

• 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 sometime this weekend. The poll will be linked in this thread, the General Chat 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:

Swift
Our Divine Mischief (<1,000 ratings)
Of Stormlarks and Silence

Now I am hoping someone nominates Mortal Queens, so I can second it.🙂

I nominate:

Medallion

Nova

I second Swift.

I third Swift

I nominate Mortal Queens.

P. Pherson wrote: "I nominate Mortal Queens."

Yesss! Thanks, P!🤩 (I will do all of my seconds in one post. It's easier for me to keep track of how many I have done.)

Wow its already that time again! Where did October go??

I nominate Ignite (Volume 1) by Kara Swanson

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I nominate:
Inkheart
Wishtress
Way of Kings
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I second:
Nova
Mortal Queens
Ignite
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I hope you all appreciate the appropriate emojis cause they took me 15 minutes to find😅

I second:
Mortal Queens
Wishtress
Ignite
Way of Kings

I third Way of Kings!

I second wishtress

I nominate:
This Present Darkness
An Enchantment of Ravens
The Burning Sky

Clare wrote: "I hope you all appreciate the appropriate emojis cause they took me 15 minutes to find😅"

😂😂 yk you can search them up, right? 🫠

I know. Even with that, it still took forever (literally or figuratively, you choose)😅

😂😂

✨ tazannah ✨ wrote: "I nominate:
This Present Darkness
An Enchantment of Ravens
The Burning Sky
Sky in the Deep"

Ummm...Taz? I think you've got an extra here.🤭

I second:

- Swift
-Of Stormlarks and Silence

whoops sorry I fixed it

Taz 👀 Really? 🥲😂

I hope this is alright, I was bored, so I just sat down and did it.
The numbers after the books is how many seconds it has.
Swift(3)
Our Devine Mischief(1)
Of Stormlarks and Silence(2)
Medallion
Nova(2)
Mortal Queens(4)
Ignite (volume 1)(2)
Inkheart(1)
Wishtress(4)
Way of Kings(3)
This Present Darkness
An Enchantment of Ravens(2)
The Burning Sky
The Hunger Games(1)

I second An Enchantment of Ravens!

I updated it.

I second:
An enchantment of Ravens
Of Stormlarks and Silence

My vote is deffo for Mortal Queens! :)

Wishtress too or DARE (Acktar, Series)!

I second:

Mortal Queens
Inkheart
Our Divine Mischief
Nova

*thinks through all the books I've been considering putting on my November tbr* I don't know what to nominate...

I nominate The Hunger Games (if that's alright. apparently, you read it back in 2022, not sure if that was far enough back or not *shrugs*)

Yeah—we have a whole new crowd here now, so THG is fine! (I have never read it, so I guess the content is ok, but I’m not sure.)

Well, the group read it before...

*proceeds to overthink whether the content is fine*

My plan is to re-read one a month starting in November, then I'll finish my re-read in February, and the new one comes out in March. ;)

I know we read it before, but a few have slipped under the radar that weren’t the best choices for BotM. That was one thing Lily wanted to work on before she had to go on hiatus, so a couple of the mods, me being one of them, came up with the standards we use now.

I think it's good... *looks at the guidelines* I mean, as long as fake-dating and kissing are fine.

Would the kissing be appropriate in public?🤭

In the first book, I think. Maybe not later in the series... Ugh, I can't remember. I'm pretty sure it was acceptable...

Somebody, help lol.

Just did some skimming... I think the kissing is fine.

There's also sleeping together for warmth, but it's like literally just for warmth, and I don't even remember any comments being made about it, the way it usually is.

Ok! It sounds fine, Bella!

I second The Hunger Games and Wishtress

I also second Way of Kings

THG book is cleaner then the movie and it’s rly addicting, content wise it’s a little violent but nothing more

I nominate Scythe

I'm trying to figure out if I can think of any more nominations lol.

updated it.

Bella off hiatus wrote: "I nominate Scythe"

scythe is fine, just wanted to let you know it has a lot of violence that some people (might) find disturbing; I thought it was fine, though

I also second “Wishtress”

Seventh it?

lol dw, we know what you mean haha