Book Nomination Thread
This post is set to contest mode and anyone can nominate a book as long as it meets the criteria listed below. To nominate a book, post a comment in this thread with the book and author you’d like to read. Feel free to add a brief summary of the book and why you’d like to read it as well. If a book you’d like to nominate is already in the comment section, then simply upvote it, and upvote any other book you’d like to read as well, but note that upvotes are hidden from everyone except the mods in contest mode, and the comments (nominees) will appear in random order.
Please read the rules carefully.
Rules:
- Nominated books must be in the Public Domain. Being a classic book club, this gives us a definitive way to determine a books eligibility, while it also allows people to source a free copy of the book if they choose to.
- No books are allowed from our “year of” family of subs that are dedicated to a specific book. These subs restart on January 1st. The books and where to read them are:
* War and Peace- r/ayearofwarandpeace
* Les Miserables- r/AYearOfLesMiserables
* The Count of Monte Cristo- r/AReadingOfMonteCristo
* Middlemarch- r/ayearofmiddlemarch
* Don Quixote- r/yearofdonquixote
* Anna Karenina- r/yearofannakarenina
Must be a different author than our current book. What this means is since we are currently reading EM Forster, no books from them will be considered for our next read, but their other works will be allowed once again after this vote.
No books from our Discussion Archivé in the sidebar. Please check the link to see the books we’ve already completed.
Here are a few lists from Project Gutenberg if you need ideas.
* Frequently viewed or downloaded
Reddit polls allow a maximum of six choices. The top nominations from this thread will go to a Reddit poll in a Finalists Thread where we will vote on only those top books. The winner of the Reddit poll will be read here as our next book.
We want to make sure everyone has a chance to nominate, vote, then find a copy of our next book. We give a week for nominations. A week to vote on the Finalists. And two weeks for readers to find a copy of the winning book (eeek, maybe just the one week given this post is a little late).
Our book picking process takes 4 weeks in total (may need to be truncated to three, as this post might be a week tardy). We read 1 chapter each weekday, which makes 5 chapters a week, and 20 chapters in 4 weeks which brings us to our Contingency Rule. Any book that is 20 chapters or less that wins the Finalist Vote means we also read the 2nd place book as well after we read the winning book. We do this so we don’t have to do a shortened version of our book picking process.
We will announce the winning book once the poll closes in the Finalists Thread.🧵