Having people post lists is ok, but I am still for using sun surfer's suggestion from last year which is a poll with up to 30 different categories to vote on (below). We would take the top 11 categories, plus Runners-Up in January, and a volunteer (or 2-3 working together) would decide the order.
More details from that suggestion in the spoiler:
If there is a tie that would effect the final list (e.g., the 12th and 13th most popular items are tied) we will have a single choice run-off vote. If we still have tie, the winner will be chosen by either WT Sharpe or another volunteer.
30 choices is the maximum allowed by the software I believe, so that is where the limit came from.
The vote could be a fairly long one (1 month plus) at this time of year in order to allow as many people as possible to see it and participate.
If we want to reduce the number of literary titles we should consider replacing or just removing some of these categories (+).
Here is the slightly updated list of categories:
- Action/Adventure**
- Award Winners +
- Banned/Challenged Books +
- Classics
- Contemporary
- Fantasy*
- Fiction***
- First in a Series
- Foreign (Originally Non-English) +
- Free-For-All
- Historical Fiction
- History (Non-Fiction)
- Horror
- Humor
- Indie
- Mystery/Crime*
- Non-Fiction
- Not Classic or Contemporary
- Patricia Clark Memorial Library
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Boats)
- Philosophy
- Pulp Adventure
- Romance
- Science (Non-Fiction)
- Science-Fiction*
- Short Stories
- Thriller/Suspense*
- Travel**
- Westerns****
- Young Adult
+ These categories tend towards more "literary" choices and might be removed/replaced if we want to avoid that.
* I removed the combined "Science-Fiction/Fantasy" and "Mystery/Thriller" categories in favor of the separate categories. We could add them back if wanted.
**I split up "Adventure/Travel" into "Action/Adventure" and "Travel" to more accurately describe the fiction and non-fiction flavors of this category.
***Added "Fiction" as a semi-Free-for-All month.
****Added "Western" as a 30th option.