The Next Best Book Club discussion

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And Check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- New Authors for the New Year (one book wonders)


Only ONE nomination per person.
If you nominate a book for catagory 1, you CANNOT nominate a book for catagory 2, and visa versa.

Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?
I will accept nominations through Thursday morning. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

Fun! Lori, would you mind explaining Category 2 a little bit? Is it authors who've only published one book?

Cindy, yes! An author who has only published one book.

Saad, check the rules for posting... methinks you missed something. Your entry is not valid as it stands! Edit it to add the missing info.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet..Jamie Ford

Debut novel.

Cat1. Crybbe (US title: Curfew) by Phil Rickman

So, Lori, would Wuthering Heights work? She only ever wrote one book but she isn't a "new" author. Just want to be absolutely clear before I do any nominating. Thanks! :)

Cat 2. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (GR author)

Cat 1: A Mercy by Toni Morrison

cat2.Bill Warrington's Last Chance by James King

Cat 2: Soulless by Gail Carriger.

(I hope this counts - her 2nd book doesn't come out until March of next year.)

El wrote: "Cat 2: The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan."

Mary Swan has a couple books published.

Jaime, yup! I will accept ANY author with only one book.... So new authors are welcome, as are the oldies that never published beyond their first!

Cindy, that works too!

Saad wrote: "carol you can't nominate books for both cats, like hello rules ... ;) "

So I didn't read the rules. Shame on me. lol Nothing sneaks by you guys.

Thanks Carol... he he he

Thanks Ralph. My source was apparently not updated. :) I deleted my suggestion so as to not bog down the thread, and will suggest something more appropriate later.

El wrote: "Thanks Ralph. My source was apparently not updated. :) I deleted my suggestion so as to not bog down the thread, and will suggest something more appropriate later."

Nominate two they love that.hehehehehehe

Oh dear.. people, people, let's behave now! It's getting (sorry for the pun) catty in here :)

El, you could always use your original nom for Cat 1 if you wanted!

Saad wrote: "I was just making amends for neglecting to read the rules too. Having gone to the trouble of reading them though I feel it's now my duty to enforce!

Lori, Elizabeth could do with a telling off ..."



Keeping us on the straight and narrow are you? You are doing a good job. Now you have to stay up all night and take care of business.hahahaha

Lori wrote: "Oh dear.. people, people, let's behave now! It's getting (sorry for the pub) catty in here :)

El, you could always use your original nom for Cat 1 if you wanted!"

You mean pun me thinks. Although pub is good too.

Cleaning up so I dont miss any:

Cat1:
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Crybbe (US title: Curfew) - Phil Rickman
A Mercy - Toni Morrison

Cat2:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet -Jamie Ford
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Bill Warrington's Last Chance - James King
Soulless - Gail Carriger


Keep em coming.

Looks like there is an echo in here.

How right you are Carol. See how close the 'p' and the 'n' are to each other... easy mistake :)

Fiona wrote: "Eheeeem...

Cat. 1 - Crusade Elizabeth Laird a YA book set during the crusades from the POVs of a Christian and a Muslim."

This one sounds promising.

Cat 2: Mathilda Savitch A Novel by Victor Lodato.

Lori, I thought about changing my other suggestion to Cat 1, but I rarely read first-time authors so I wanted to nominate something for that specific category - forcing myself to look outside my usual shelves at the library, if you will. :)

Now, if I'm wrong on this one also, someone please be sure to tell me!

Lori wrote: "Jaime, yup! I will accept ANY author with only one book.... So new authors are welcome, as are the oldies that never published beyond their first!



Thanks!



Category 2-- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Category 2: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Stacey, Wuthering Heights was just nominated. Would you like to nominate something else?

CAT 2: Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun.

(She's only got one book published, despite having some stories published; does this count?)

Cat 1: Shooting an Elephant and other essays by George Orwell

I've read three of the essays in here, all of which were fantastic.

Dan wrote: "Cat 2. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (GR author)"

Nice.

Cat 2: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Cat 1: Murder on the Orient Express

Whoops! Sorry! I'll think of something.

Cat 2: The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Cat2: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

Cat2-20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

Rachel, Hill has had other books out.

Cat 1: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood -
Rebecca Wells

Cat 1: The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan.

Cat.2: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

So far---

Cat1:
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Crybbe (US title: Curfew) - Phil Rickman
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
Crusade - Elizabeth Laird
Shooting an Elephant and other essays - George Orwell
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan


Cat2:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet -Jamie Ford
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Bill Warrington's Last Chance - James King
Soulless - Gail Carriger
Mathilda Savitch - Victor Lodato
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - Jonathan L. Howard
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Sarah, I need the author for your nomination to be valid....

So far some interesting choices there!

category 1 Joseph Heller's Something Happened

Category 1 - The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

lol I'm trying to read Wuthering Heights right now. The key word in that sentence was "trying." Technically, it's on hold. Indefinitely.

Category 1-- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Cat 1: Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago

Oooohhh Jessica...!!!

Oh *rubbing hands together* can't wait to see which one it is. These are some good selectons