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Old 08-04-2015, 12:03 AM   #1
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2016 Book Club CATEGORY Nominations
2016 MobileRead Book Club CATEGORY Nominations

In 2016, we will have two fixed categories: January's Second Chance (a second chance for all the losing books of 2014) and July's Free-For-All in which any book in any genre may be nominated. Help us select the remaining 10 categories that the MobileRead Book Club will use in 2016.

The nominations will run through Monday night at midnight EST August 17 or until 30 categories have been fully nominated. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for one week.

• For this special nomination session, each member will have 6 votes which you can use to nominate categories or second or third the categories others have nominated.

• In order for a category to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

• All members of MobileRead are welcome to participate, even if they have not participated in the book club in the past.

Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) Thriller, Suspense & Crime (sun surfer, PandathePanda, CRussel)
(2) Mystery (sun surfer, CRussel, Luffy)
(3) Travel & Adventure (sun surfer, CRussel, bfisher)
(4) Classics (Luffy, issybird, bfisher)
(5) Science Fiction (Dazrin, Nyssa, JSWolf)
(6) Fantasy (Nyssa, drofgnal, JSWolf)
(7) Biography and Memoirs (issybird, bfisher, Hamlet53)
(8) Humor (Luffy, issybird, WT Sharpe)
(9) Historical Fiction (Luffy, drofgnal, treadlightly)
(10) Science (Hamlet53, WT Sharpe, bfisher)
(11) History (Hamlet53, issybird, bfisher)
(12) Short Story Anthologies [various authors](din155, WT Sharpe, HomeInMyShoes)
(13) Horror (Luffy, WT Sharpe, Mims)
(14) Our Favo(u)rite Books (HomeInMyShoes, din155, Dazrin)
(15) Non-Fiction (JSWolf, Mims, Dazrin)
(16) Originally Non-English (sun surfer, issybird, bfisher)
(17) Romance (treadlightly, Mims, CRussel)
(18) Sports [Non-Fiction & Fiction] (ccowie, GA Russell, HomeInMyShoes)
(19) Patricia Clarke Memorial Library (HomeInMyShoes, GA Russell, CRussel)
(20) Inspirational Stories (PandathePanda, WT Sharpe, sun surfer)
(21) Sequential Art [graphic novels, etc.] (Nyssa, WT Sharpe, GA Russell)
(22) Award Winners [fiction] (John F, treadlightly, Nyssa)
(23) Short Stories [same author] (din155, kyteflyer, Hamlet53)
(24) Young Adult & Children's (sun surfer, HomeInMyShoes, Nyssa)
(25) Food [food theme, not cookbooks] (ccowie, treadlightly, bfisher)
(26) Contemporary (treadlightly, John F, Mims)
(27) Gay/Lesbian (PandathePanda, Nyssa, CRussel)
(28) War (issybird, PandathePanda, Hamlet53)
(29) Music (GA Russell, Luffy, ccowie)
(30) Fanfiction (PandathePanda, kyteflyer, John F)

The nominations are now closed.


Nominations awaiting a second or third:

* Modern Fiction(JSWolf)
* Stage [plays] (Hamlet53)
* Feminist Fiction (ccowie)
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:06 AM   #2
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I’ll begin by nominating-

Mystery
This is plain mystery and doesn’t include non-mystery thriller, suspense or crime books. The reasoning is that I love real mysteries (usually a murder or puzzling situation, to be solved by clues) but am not as big on the rest and so would like this to have its own category.

Thriller, Suspense & Crime
And the yang.

Travel & Adventure
For the explorer in us all.
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:13 AM   #3
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I will nominate Science Fiction as my first and I still need to decide on my others.
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I'll Second: Thriller, Suspense & Crime

Then introduce two nominations:

Inspirational fiction

Fanfiction
Fan fiction has become more popular and widespread since the advent of the World Wide Web; according to one estimate, fan fiction comprises one third of all content about books on the Web
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I’ll begin by nominating-

Mystery
This is plain mystery and doesn’t include non-mystery thriller, suspense or crime books. The reasoning is that I love real mysteries (usually a murder or puzzling situation, to be solved by clues) but am not as big on the rest and so would like this to have its own category.

Thriller, Suspense & Crime
And the yang.

Travel & Adventure
For the explorer in us all.
I'll second each of those. Still thinking about my other 3 votes.
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Old 08-04-2015, 03:49 AM   #6
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I second MYSTERY
I nominate HISTORICAL FICTION
I nominate HORROR
I nominate HUMOR
I nominate CLASSICS

I'm reserving one vote.
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Old 08-04-2015, 04:04 AM   #7
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I will nominate Science Fiction as my first and I still need to decide on my others.
I will 2nd Science Fiction, and I will nominate Fantasy.
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I'll second Classics.

I'll nominate Humor and Biography and Memoirs.
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I third classics

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Thriller, Suspense & Crime

Travel & Adventure
Please revise your nominations. Mixing categories that do not go together is not a good idea.

Travel and adventure is a very good example of categories that do not go together. An adventure story does not go with a travelogue at all.

Thriller, suspense, & crime is three categories that don't fit. A book about an art heist has nothing to do with thriller or suspense.

So please redo those two because they don't work.
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I third mystery.
I third fantasy.
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Old 08-04-2015, 07:47 AM   #13
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I third science fiction.
I third mystery.
I third fantasy.
Mystery already has a third, so you've only used two of your six votes so far, Jon.

Folks: Watch me like a hawk to make sure your choices are accurately reflected in the first post! You can tell how far I've updated the post by looking at the "Reason for editing". I've already caught myself making at least one error, and the day's just begun!
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