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Hey, guys! Welcome to the September 2025 BOTM Nominations thread.

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 be in the fantasy genre (here at Faith & Fantasy, both sci-fi and fairy tales may be included) and be clean or relatively clean.

3) 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 themes that clash with biblical truth.

4) If someone has already nominated a book that you wanted to nominate, please do "second" it! I will only be picking the top 3-6 books to vote on in the final poll, but the more total "seconds" 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), you just have to make sure you don't exceed 3 nominations and 6 in total (seconds + nominations) per month. Hope that makes sense!

Also, please do not nominate any books that we have read recently. You can view the books Faith & Fantasy has already read here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

While it’s not a rule, exactly, we prefer the books you nominate to have 1,000+ ratings, that way it’s more accessible to people, especially minors, since they might not have the money to pay for books. This way, the book will have a higher chance of being found in all of our library systems. Just a preference, though!

I will send out a poll for all of us to vote on based on this thread's nominations 4-5 days after today.

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

100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons

Black: The Birth of Evil

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

I second 100 days of Sunlight

Is 100 Days of Sunlight in the fantasy genre, though? 🤔

I'm not too sure.. It said something about contemporary romance.

I nominate:
Of Stormlarks and Silence
An Enchantment of Ravens

Its my first time recommending a book, I noticed it was open to clean romance but missed that it needs to be fantasy. 100 Days of Sunlight is a lighthearted clean romance, but not a fantasy

You're all good, Arwen! It does need to be in the fantasy genre, so if you have any fantasy books you'd like to nominate, go right ahead! (I've heard of Abbie and have been wanting to read her books too, lol. I love her videos.)

I nominate The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton. It's a little different from what we typically read, but it is still definitely fantasy and it has a lot of thematic ideas in it that I think would benefit from discussion.

I second Mark of the Raven; it sounds so interesting!

I nominate:

Sky of Seven Colors (<1,000 ratings)
Our Divine Mischief (<1,000 ratings)
The Mermaid's Tale (<1.000 ratings)

EllieJellyBean :D wrote: "I nominate:
Of Stormlarks and Silence
Mark of the Raven"

Ummm... didn't we read Mark of the Raven relatively recently?

I second The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Sounds interesting!)

I'll third The Napoleon of Notting Hill!

I second the Mermaid's Tale

Sharon wrote: "EllieJellyBean :D wrote: "I nominate:
Of Stormlarks and Silence
Mark of the Raven"

Ummm... didn't we read Mark of the Raven relatively recently?"

In January of last year (2024). Can it be nominated again this year or is that too recent?

I second Black!

I second The Napoleon of Notting Hill

I nominate:
Half Upon a Time (<1,000 ratings)
King's Folly
Ranger of Kings

I second:
Sky of Seven Colors

Oh my gosh. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m so sorry I did the wrong book. 😂 I meant An Enchantment of Ravens. Lemme fix that real quick 😂

EllieJellyBean :D wrote: "Oh my gosh. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m so sorry I did the wrong book. 😂 I meant An Enchantment of Ravens. Lemme fix that real quick 😂"

Ellie!🤭 Well, you got the Raven part right!

Ok but... like, is it too soon to read Mark of the Raven?? Because I'm in 🤭😂

I second black

I second Black

I nominate:
This present darkness
The wonderland trials

I second of stormlight and silence

I second Enchantment of Ravens! 😂

Please guys, does Black have a chance this month?

I second:

Of Stormlarks and Silence
An Enchantment of Ravens

Elisabeth (Bets) wrote: "Please guys, does Black have a chance this month?"

I seriously hope so!!

I nomination:
A Crown of Chains

I second:
Black: The Birth of Evil
Of Stormlight and Silence
Sky Of Seven Colors
The Wonderland Trials

*nominate not nomination 😭

I nominate vivid (the color theory #1)

I second the napoleon of Nottingham hill

K I’m done

Also I’ll actually be making the poll tmrw morning! So get your seconds in
I want to make sure everyone has time to see this

I second Vivid!

I second The Mermaid's Tale

I second the wonderland trial's

I third the Mermaids Tale

I third Vivid

I second Of Stormlarks and Silence

I second:

An Enchantment of Ravens
The Mermaid's Tale
Our Divine Mischief
Sky of Seven Colors
Vivid

I second An Enchantment of Ravens!

20 mins till I close this thread

🚨🚨🚨🍃🍃🍃here’s the September BOTM poll. It’ll close on the 30th:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...