All About Books discussion

It's time to nominate your choices for our next group classics read, for January and February 2025. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1975 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 7 days and will close late on 11th December 2024 or as soon we hit six books in the poll. The poll will run for seven days and I will announce the winner shortly afterwards.

During this time anybody can nominate and second a book. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 7-day nomination period will go into the poll. Each person can nominate one book and second one book each. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive, although please be mindful that our polls do not fill up as quickly as they used to.

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 or browsing the Group Fiction folder.

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

I nominate The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton.

I nominate The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt (224 p., pub. 1900).

I'll second The custom of the country :)

Nominated Books:
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt

Books Going to Poll:
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Curtain by Agatha Christie

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Jade wrote: "Curtain by Agatha Christie"

I will second this.

Nominated Books:
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Books Going to Poll:
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Curtain by Agatha Christie

Diana S wrote: "Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell"

I will second this

Nominated Books:
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt

Books Going to Poll:
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Curtain by Agatha Christie
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Nominations will close today. I will set up the poll tomorrow.

I second The House Behind the Cedars

Greg wrote: "I second The House Behind the Cedars"

Thank you Greg, will add that into the poll now.

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

Thank you everyone for your nominations.