All About Books discussion

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

Nominations start today and will close on 10th May 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 May 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.

ooh I'd like to nominate Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.

I second Raising Hare: A Memoir. by Chloe Dalton

I nominate I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

Nidhi wrote: "I nominate I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell"

I will second this book.

Nominated Books:

Books Going to Poll:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

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

I will nominated Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Nominated Books:
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Books Going to Poll:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

I nominate Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (544 p., pub. 2024).

And I second War of Shadows.

spoko wrote: "I nominate Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (544 p., pub. 2024).

And I second War..."

I will second this.

Nominated Books:
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Books Going to Poll:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Two slots left.

I'll nominate Losing Earth: A Recent History by
Nathaniel Rich

Nominated Books:
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

Books Going to Poll:
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

I will second Losing Earth: A Recent History

I will second Unwell Women

Thank you Ruth and Petra.

As the poll now has six books, I will close nominations and set up the poll.

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