All About Books discussion

It's time to nominate your choice for our December 2024 and January 2025 group non-fiction read - please use this thread to nominate.

Nominations start today and will close on 10th November 2024 or when we filled the poll with six books.

During this time anybody can nominate and second one book each. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 7 day nomination period will go into the poll. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive, however please be mindful of this as the polls are not filling up as quickly anymore.

The poll will then run until the 17th November 2024 and the winner will be announced shortly after. I hope this will leave everybody with enough time to obtain the chosen book.

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, contact one of the moderators or post on 'Ask the Moderators' thread.

If you have any questions on the nominations process please contact me, use the 'Ask the Moderators' thread or post on here and we will be happy to help.

I will kick this off and nominate Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

I nominate War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg (496 p., pub. 2021).

spoko wrote: "I nominate War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg (496 p., pub. 2021)."

Thank you spoko, this looks interesting. My grandfather fought in the middle east. I will second this one.

Nominated Books:
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Books Going to Poll:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg

I nominate Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi

Nidhi wrote: "I nominate Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi"

I'll second this one

Thank you Nidhi and Greg.

Nominated Books:
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Books Going to Poll:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Alannah wrote: "I will kick this off and nominate Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell"

I second this

I nominate Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt

Nominated Books:
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt

Books Going to Poll:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

I nominate The Quiet Damage: QAnon and The Destruction of The American Family by Jesselyn Cook

Nominated Books:
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

Books Going to Poll:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Tatyana wrote: "I nominate Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt"

I will second this.

It's an older book, but seems appropriate for the times, I will nominate The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig.
The World of Yesterday

Steve wrote: "It's an older book, but seems appropriate for the times, I will nominate The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig.
The World of Yesterday"

I would love to read this one but have already seconded.

Anyone want to second this one or one of the others?

I second The World of Yesterday.

Nominated Books:
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

Books Going to Poll:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

Thank you all for your nominations, will set up the poll now.

Poll linked here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...