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Help select what we'll read and discuss to start off the new decade!


The topic is Silence Is Golden.

There are many possible ways to interpret this such as the idea of quiet, muteness, secrets, threats to be silent, pacts, meditation, etc.; or the idea of gold or other precious, heavy or well really any metals; or the idea of golden as in lighting, goodness, shining, being glorified, the colour, etc.; or a word or concept in a title that is related to the topic.


Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for about four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting by post then opens for four days, and a voter may give each nomination either one or two votes but only has a limited number of votes to use which is equal to the number of nominations minus one. Any questions, feel free to ask.

We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion.

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Nominations are complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is complete. Final results-

• Tin Man by Sarah Winman
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 214 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 2017 . England
  
  
• Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 297 Pages . Votes 2 . Run-off – . 1959 . England
  
  
• The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 108 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 1883 . Scotland
  
  
• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 170 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 3 . 1921 . England
  
  
• The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 117 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 2 . 2008 . Argentina
  
  
• Three Horses by Erri De Luca
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 144 Pages . Votes 2 . Run-off – . 1999 . Italy
  
  
• Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 242 Pages . Votes 5 . Run-off 0 . 1929 . U.S.
  
  
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 330 Pages . Votes 2 . Run-off – . 2012 . U.S.
  
  
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 399 Pages . Votes 3 . Run-off – . 1995 . England
  
  
• The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
  Post . Goodreads . Preview . 136 Pages . Votes 1 . Run-off – . 1961 . Italy