MobileRead April 2017 Book Club Nominations

[JSWolf]

I've one more nod. I'm not sure what to nominate at the moment.

[WT Sharpe]

I nominate The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

Literary Awards:

Hugo Award for Best Novel (2009), Newbery Medal (2009), Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2009), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2009), Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (2009), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2010), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2009), Indies Choice Book Award for Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction): (2009), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (ALAN/NCTE) Nominee (2009), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Cybils Award for Middle Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction (2008), Carnegie Medal (2010), Elizabeth Burr / Worzalla Award (2009), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2009)

From Goodreads:

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.

[Dazrin]

I will second The Graveyard Book.

[GA Russell]

I nominate...

Oxford American ranks Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner the Best Southern Novel of all time.

https://www.librarything.com/bookawa...ks+of+All+Time

Kindle - $10.99
https://www.amazon.com/Absalom-Vinta...dp/B004JHYRLI/

B&N Nook - $10.99
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/absa...ner/1117136828

Kobo - $10.99
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/absalom-absalom-1

[JSWolf]

I've figured out what to give my last nod to.

I'd like to nominate Still Life by Louise Penny. It's won multiple awards.

1. Anthony Awards Best First Novel
2. Barry Awards Best First Novel
3. Dilys Awards Best Book
4. New Blood" Dagger award
5. Arthur Ellis award

'Three Pines is made up of good people, but one of us is festering.' The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surêté du Québec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines—a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

Still Life introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forces—and this series—with integrity and quiet courage, but also a winning and talented new writer of traditional mysteries in the person of Louise Penny.

Overdrive (eBook & audiobook): https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=still+life+penny

[CRussel]

Good choice, Jon. I'd give it a second if I had any left.

Sent from my Amazon Fire with Tapatalk. Blame autocorrect for the spelling.

[treadlightly]

I'll second Still Life.

[Dazrin]

I will third Still Life but I don't expect to be able to get it in time if it wins. 80 people on the waiting list for 7 copies at my library.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I will third Still Life but I don't expect to be able to get it in time if it wins. 80 people on the waiting list for 7 copies at my library.

Yeah, it's a popular book. And the "WhisperSync Deal" is hardly a deal at all. Annoyingly, even though she's a Canadian author, it's not available from the library in BC. In either eBook or audio book format.

[JSWolf]

Still Life is $7.99 in the US and £2.99 in the UK. Also available as an audiobook via Hoopla.

[CRussel]

Well, I've got the hardback here somewhere. So I'm going to be looking for a really cheap version of this book if I have to read it again.

[bfisher]

I'll second Absalom, Absalom

[Dazrin]

A little over 1 day left. The Graveyard Book and Absalom, Absalom only need 1 more nomination each to get us to 7 nominations.

[issybird]

I'll third Absalom, Absalom.

[JSWolf]

I'm out of nods.