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As I will soon explain in a broadcast to the group, Faith & Fantasy will be reading The Fellowship of the Ring for both the month of July and the month of August. In short, this is because, as a long book, the mods have agreed that it should be given more time to allow more for relaxed reading.
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This is the thread to nominate books! Please follow the guidelines below when nominating.

1) You are allowed to nominate a maximum of 3 books for each month's BOTM.

2) The book(s) you nominate must have fantasy as a main genre and be clean or relatively clean.

3) If you can, try to nominate books from Christian authors as much as possible. It doesn't have to have obvious spiritual themes, but please don't ever nominate a book with theme(s) that clash with biblical truth.

4) If someone has already nominated a book that you wanted to nominate, I will only be picking the top 3-6 nominations to vote on in the final poll, so the more nominations a book has, the more likely it will become the BotM.

5) You can second a total of 6 books or (nominate a total of 3). If you're going to both nominate book(s) and second book(s) as well, you just have to make sure you don't exceed 3 nominations per month and 6 in total (seconds + nominations). Hope that makes sense!

Also, please do not nominate any books that we have already read in the past twelve months. You can view the books Faith & Fantasy has already read here.

Nominations will be open until the middle of August at the latest, and then I will send out a poll for all of us to vote for the BotM based on this thread's nominations.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them below.

I nominate Dust by Kara Swanson, Unblemished by Sara Ella, and The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.

Yes to The Horse and His Boy! How do I second that??

Shannon wrote: "Yes to The Horse and His Boy! How do I second that??"

Hey Shannon! Thanks for the question! You just say something like, "I second ______", and I'll tally up all the nominations and seconds once people have added their input.

I second The Horse and His Boy.



I nominate The Silmarillion, Daughter of Kings, and Heartless

I second Unblemished

I second Heartless and second The Silmarillion! (I'm also wondering whether I can second The Silm twice xD.)

I'd second Heartless and Dust!

I second the Silmarillion!

…Can I just say I second anything CS Lewis or Tolkien 😂

I nominate Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis!

Shannon wrote: "I second the Silmarillion!

…Can I just say I second anything CS Lewis or Tolkien 😂"

😂😂😂 Yes, you may! At least until you run out of seconds lol.

Ooh, Shannon, I actually didn't notice that it wasn't you who nominated The Silm until now. Thanks for that, Helena!

I nominate Moonscript and second Unblemished!

I second:
-Heartless
-Till We Have Faces
-Moonscript

Lilyyy wrote: "Ooh, Shannon, I actually didn't notice that it wasn't you who nominated The Silm until now. Thanks for that, Helena!"

Heehee, you’re welcome! 😂 I’ve been wanting to read it.

I third Till We Have Faces

As long as it gets nominated lol 😂
But you know I was totally on that same brainwave lol

Shannon wrote: "As long as it gets nominated lol 😂
But you know I was totally on that same brainwave lol"

XD Of course, of course.

I second Horse and his Boy and Till we have faces

Ooo I second Heartless by Marissa Meyer!

Gracie wrote: "Ooo I second Heartless by Marissa Meyer!"

Just a clarification that the Heartless that was nominated is by Anne Elisabeth Stengl. You can totally nominate Meyer's Heartless, too, though!

Oh thanks for the clarification, I thought I was Meyer's Heartless too

It's okay! I'll count it like that when I tally everything. :) I've heard both authors' books are great.

Okay, thanks!! :)

I second Dust!

I second dust!

When we have BOTM that last two months, will we close nominations for the next BOTM after one month or two?

I nominate—RedWall

I third Moonscript

And third Unblemished

Helena wrote: "When we have BOTM that last two months, will we close nominations for the next BOTM after one month or two?"

Hi Helena! Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow me to keep up exactly on time with everything, but I'm hoping these nominations will be completed at the beginning of August. That being said, this is the first time we've done a BotM for two months instead of one, so it's as new to me as it is for everyone else. :)

Oh I don’t mind the wait at all! Take your time! I was just curious if the mods decided on that. :)

Helena wrote: "Oh I don’t mind the wait at all! Take your time! I was just curious if the mods decided on that. :)"

Okay, got it! :) <3

I nominate Princess of Undersea by Leslie Conzatti. It's a little mermaid retelling by a Christian indie author!

I second Princess of Undersea, and that's it for my nominations!

Celia wrote: "I nominate Princess of Undersea by Leslie Conzatti. It's a little mermaid retelling by a Christian indie author!"

I third this!

I third Dust and fourth Unblemished!

Ella wrote: "I third Dust and fourth Unblemished!"

I'm reading Dust right now, and it's phenomenal!

Helena wrote: "I second Princess of Undersea, and that's it for my nominations!

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All right, awesome! By the way, Helena, I'm thinking about starting a monthly spotlight on Christian indie authors. If this does end up being a thing, I'd love to feature Princess of Undersea sometime or another!

Lilyyy wrote: "I'm thinking about starting a monthly spotlight on Christian indie authors. If this does end up being a thing, I'd love to feature Princess of Undersea sometime or another!"

Cool!

Thanks, Celia!

Lilyyy wrote: "Helena wrote: "I second Princess of Undersea, and that's it for my nominations!

"

All right, awesome! By the way, Helena, I'm thinking ab..."

Ok, cool! That would be a wonderful feature.

Hello, Lilly! Sorry, I haven't been active in this group. I would like to nominate The Legends of Elanimar #1: Through the Eye please! Thank you <3

Also, I forgot how many books we are allowed to nominate (3?) I would also like to nominate Tiger Mosquitoes: A Medical Crime Thriller by Kenneth J. Stein. I'm reading the second book in the series ( Pharaoh's Ticks) and it's just very wonderful! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series! Thanks again! :)

Hey Isabel! Thanks for stopping by! You're right: three is the limit for nominations. You can also second three other books, though!

Glad I could stop by with all the business going on right now! Alrighty! Thanks a lot Lilly!!

Isabel wrote: "Glad I could stop by with all the business going on right now! Alrighty! Thanks a lot Lilly!!"

No problem!

I nominate Dragon?: Stories from the People of the Archives and Fremont and Sidney: A Story About a Bot and Its Boy

Isabel wrote: "Also, I forgot how many books we are allowed to nominate (3?) I would also like to nominate Tiger Mosquitoes: A Medical Crime Thriller by Kenneth J. Stein. I'm rea..."

That’s not fantasy, unfortunately :////

Isabel wrote: "Hello, Lilly! Sorry, I haven't been active in this group. I would like to nominate The Legends of Elanimar #1: Through the Eye please! Thank you <3"

Gahhh I ran out of nominations!