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It's time to nominate for our November group fiction read!

This thread is for nominations for our group fiction read in November 2015.

Nominations will be run for 5 days and will close on September 25th.

During this time anybody can either nominate or second a book. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 5 day nomination period will go into the poll. Each person can either nominate one book or second one book. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive.

The poll will then run until the 30th September and the winner will be announced the following day. This will leave a month for people to get hold of the book in preparation for the read.

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

Remember, we will be reading Watership Down in October.

I would like to nominate The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin. I'm in the mood for something fun :)

Brick Lane by Monica Ali will be my nomination.

I will second Brick Lane.

I would like to nominate Florence Gordon by Brian Morton.

I would like to nominate The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosely. I have had it in my stacks for a while and it looks like a worthwhile read.

I would like to nominate Circling the Sun by Paula McLain.

Historietime wrote: "I would like to nominate Circling the Sun by Paula McLain."

I thought this was an excellent book.

I'll second The Pleasure of My Company.

I'd like to nominate Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott

I will second The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.

I will second Brick Lane, it's a wonderful book.

I will also second The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey !

I would like to nominate The Gift of Looking Closely by Al Brookes. I have been really wanting to read this one for a while.

I'll slip into The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey camp with a second.

B the BookAddict wrote: "I'd like to nominate Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott"

I'll second Infinite Home, looks interesting!

I'll second Infinite Home too.

I will second Circling the Sun.

I nominate The Shadow Lines

I nominate The Orchardist

Another vote for Brick Lane! I'm from Bangladesh so it's daunting to think of such a in depth look into my culture but I've never gone round to reading the book its just sitting on my shelf!

Ok here's the list for the poll, unless we get any last-minute seconds!! I will set the poll up in a couple of hours, then it's up to you to cast your vote...

The Pleasure of My Company 1 second
Brick Lane 3 seconds
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey 3 seconds
Circling the Sun 2 seconds
Infinite Home 2 seconds

Also nominated but not yet seconded:
Florence Gordon
The Gift of Looking Closely
The Shadow Lines
The Orchardist

I'd like to be.....

Just in case anyone is having trouble finding the poll, here is the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Tough choices this month.

Leslie wrote: "Just in case anyone is having trouble finding the poll, here is the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."

Thanks Leslie!

The two contenders this month appear to be Brick Lane and Circling the Sun - if you'd like either of those to be our November Group Read, then please vote and join us in reading!!

Looks like Circling the Sun won by a small margin.

Leslie wrote: "Looks like Circling the Sun won by a small margin."

Yay!