I totally forgot to post the book group voting results back from April.
It was an awfully close race. For those who remember I gave the book group members a week to suggest titles then a week to vote online for the titles. Since I had increased the book group from 9 months to a full 12 months they needed to pick just 6 months worth of selections. Here are their selections....
Fiction Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Anthill: A Novel by E. O. Wilson Come in and Cover Me by Gin Phillips (Birmingham Author) Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress How it all began : a novel by Penelope Lively. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht A Time to Kill by John Grisham Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Nonfiction Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American
Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur
I took to Twitter to post updates (though none of my book
group users
have Twitter...well I take that back. I did recruit a new member
because they were so excited about the voting results.)
Here are some of the tweets that went on during the election...
I mean selection.
My book group members can vote on their remaining 2012 picks now.
Who is in the lead so far?
Oh snap!#Inthegardenofbeasts has overthrown#TheHungerGames
to take the lead!
#bookgroupvoting
is still 1. #bookgroupvoting
Only book with 0 votes? #TreasonatLissonGrove #bookgroupvoting
BIG CHANGE UP! #Deathcomestopemberley and #inthegardenofbeasts are now
TIED for 1st place. #bookgroupvoting
We have a 5-way tie for 3rd place! #comeinandcoverme #hungergames
4-way tie for 1st place! #cleopatra #deathcomestopemberley #inthegardenofbeasts and #comeinandcoverme #bookgroupvoting
Tied 4 2nd place? #hungergames #abelincolnvampirehunter #georgiabottoms #howitallbegan #majorpettigrews #time2kill #sarahskey #tigerswife
New Poll Results! #cleopatra and #comeinandcover me have taken the lead! Both are tied for 1st. #bookgroupvoting
We have a 3-way tie for the last two spots.... tough decisions #bookgroupvoting
Last minute voting last night changed some things up! Results will be announced today.
Pretty intense right?
I have no idea why I never got around to posting the results, but here you are....
Come in and Cover me by Gin Phillips
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
We will probably be voting again in October for the 2013 selections. Some people have suggested that I have voting only for 6 months worth of books (that way newer books have options of being added) but I like doing 12 months at a time. Thoughts?
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