Done.
Definitely a bummer he seems to be opposed to ebooks, you’d think an author would want more readers.
It’s his most famous book and so I’ve left it in. Really comes down to how the vote goes. I don’t see any reason not to have two books by the same author on the list. If you feel strongly about this though I can remove it.
Added as well.
Also this seems as good a time as any to make a small announcement I’d been sitting on for a bit.
Starting with the next book there will be two changes to hopefully streamlines some bumps I’ve seen in this club and also in other clubs on the forum. Not necessarily recently (this past month or so has been a mess for me, so apologies to anyone in clubs I’m running 
) but over the past year.
1. This is now officially an ‘Advanced’ club.
Finding a pace that works for everyone and having books of a level everyone can read leads to disappointment and a lot of polling to find comfort zones. I think having clearer ideas upfront of levels and speed will allow people to opt in or out before committing.
With that in mind, here are the rough guidelines going forward based partly on WK’s Advanced Book Club but also partly on what I have seen to largely work for this one.
- Any level book 25+ is welcome to be nominated, as are unleveled books expected to be 25 or above.
- The club will read at a speed of approximately 30-60 pages with the higher page counts weighted toward the end of the schedule. 60 is a max, not a requirement.
- Unless the book sections are too difficult to cut appropriately, schedules will be made starting with fewer pages and ramping up in the last ~1/3 of the book.
A beginner/intermediate sister club is welcome, if anyone wants to spin one up. Feel free to overlap on levels - I expect the main difference would be speed and also having an upper (rather than lower) cap.
2. How nomination culling will be handled
What we’ve been doing up to this point is cutting any books that receive no votes. We’re starting to reach the number of voters where I worry about having a no cull cycle and only one spot opens. This can lead to a very stale list of choices. Going forward, we will cut down to 17 to allow for at least 3 new nominations each cycle, based on number of votes. This means:
20 nominations = 1 winner, 2 cut
19 nominations = 1 winner, 1 cut
However any books getting no votes will be cut so if we have, for example, 18 nominations and 1 book wins and 3 have no votes we’d drop down to 14 nominations.
As always, I’m open to hearing feedback and will wait a bit before putting this in the OP and making it ‘official’.
edit: After 12 days there have been no objections so I’ll add this to the OP.
A language partner recommended this to me at some point.
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I simply browsed my TBR pile and checked out some books that I suspected might be mystery novels, and that’s how this nomination came about 
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