All About Books discussion

It's time once again to nominate your choices for our group classics read, this time for May and June 2020. For convenience, we at AAB are defining a 'classic' as a book that was first published 50 or more years ago, i.e. first published in 1970 or earlier.

Nominations will be run for 10 days and will close late on 13 April. (10pm UK time) The poll will then run for a week from the 14th until the 20th April 2020.

During this time anybody can nominate and second a book. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 10 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.

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 through the Group Fiction folder.

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

Since we are all stuck indoors, it might be a good idea to source books that can be available through a link online. I'm sure classic books would be the easiest to do this with.

Alannah wrote: "Since we are all stuck indoors, it might be a good idea to source books that can be available through a link online. I'm sure classic books would be the easiest to do this with."

Thanks--our library now won't be opening before May!

I'm currently checking out works by Virginia Woolf and would like to nominate Orlando. I believe it would make fascinating reading.

P. S. available online

Sophie wrote: "I'm currently checking out works by Virginia Woolf and would like to nominate Orlando. I believe it would make fascinating reading.

P. S. available online"

This is one I have been wanting to read for a while. I'm going to second this.

Nominated Books:

Going To Poll:
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I am nominating a big book but one I have been meaning to read for a while now - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.

Nominated Books:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Going To Poll:
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Seconding The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Pam wrote: "Seconding The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"

Thank you Pam.

Nominated Books:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving


Going To Poll:
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

Nominations close today.

Poll is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...