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.

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Nominations awaiting a second or third:

* Modern Fiction(JSWolf)
* Stage [plays] (Hamlet53)
* Feminist Fiction (ccowie)

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 will nominate Science Fiction as my first and I still need to decide on my others.

Let's sea:

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

I'll second each of those. Still thinking about my other 3 votes.

I second MYSTERY
I nominate HISTORICAL FICTION
I nominate HORROR
I nominate HUMOR
I nominate CLASSICS

I'm reserving one vote.

I will 2nd Science Fiction, and I will nominate Fantasy.

I'll second historical fiction and fantasy.

I'll second Classics.

I'll nominate Humor and Biography and Memoirs.

I third travel and adventure

I third classics

I second Biography and Memoirs.

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.

I third science fiction.
I third mystery.
I third fantasy.

Nominate History (factual not fiction)
Nominate Science (factual not fiction)
Third Biography

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!

I second Science (although it will never win).

With my second of my six votes, I third Humor.

I will third Historical Fiction and nominate Romance and Contemporary.

I'm pretty sure Humour wasn't seconded. If not, I second it.

These won't go anywhere, but having just read Blood Bones and Butter I was reminded of how much I love books with a food theme (not cookbooks). And there is such a growing list to choose from! So, I nominate Food books.

I'd also like to nominate Sports Fiction.

I'll third science.

I nominate non-fiction.
I nominate modern fiction*

* Modern Fiction Definition – What’s the best definition for the modern genre? Books in the modern fiction genre are made up of stories set in modern settings. They have technology and events that are close to or pertain to the current culture of the lives of their main characters in a “today” setting. The modern genre would also include new and struggling social concepts and/or thought processes (such as accepting homosexuals into the military, gay marriage, women’s rights, or abortion).

Second History.

My fault; I didn't see Luffy had nominated Humor first. So you've got that nomination back.

I'll third history.

Is modern fiction the same as Contemporary?

Partially mine as well because I didn't catch it at first and had humor on the list twice. :o

I nominate Short Stories
Also, Short Story Anthologies

Second Short Story Anthologies.

I'll third Short Story Anthologies. (1 - I'm keeping track of my nominations)

Can we make it such that the short story anthologies do not contain any stories that are part of a series?

^That's a reasonable request. Most anthologies from a single author don't usually contain such things, but we could always skip given titles from discussion or spoiler anything involving those.

For me, I'd have a hard time not reading the story in the first place. I am a thorough reader when I start something.

I want to know more about our members here so I'm going to nominate:

Our Favo(u)rite Books: nominations are books that are one of the nominator's favourites with no genre or topic limiations (2)

Second Our Favo(u)rite Books.

I think it's an unnecessary addition. I think that if stories that are part of a series are something people find undesirable, that rule or no rule, such books won't win the vote and may not even get so far as a third nomination.

That's just my 2¢.

I'll nominate Award Winners (fiction)

I'll second Contemporary.

Second Horror; always a fun category.

I'll third Horror and second Romance and Non-Fiction.

I nominate-

Originally Non-English
I like this category because it gives us nominations from across the globe.

I'm interested in inspirational fiction if it's nonreligious. I'm not big on a month for Christian-themed nominations but otherwise I really like the idea of inspiring books.


ETA - Because the nominations are moving so quickly, I nominate-

Inspirational Stories (nonreligious)
This can also be either fiction or non-fiction, but it should be a narrative.

I really like this idea, but I usually don't like to nominate books I've already read, so...

I'll nominate Free-For-All.

I'll third Our Favo(u)rite Books and third Non-Fiction.