🕵️‍♀️ 推理小説読書会 📚 Mystery Novel Book Club 👮‍♂️ NOW VOTING!

Oooh! This is a great idea! I’ve been meaning to read more mystery (I own a number of the recommendations but they’re gathering dust on my TBR stack.)

I guess you already have a large number of nominations, so I’ll refrain from adding to the pile right now. (Unless you want a huge number of suggestions.)

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If there’s anything you really want to add, go ahead, but I think we’re fairly well stacked :joy:

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As far as I know, the maximum number of poll options is 20, and I already see 19 in your list above. :slight_smile:

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Appreciate the input (meant sincerely, not sarcastically!) but I’m fine running two polls if I must. I’m digging the chaotic energy that a mystery club brings :joy:

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So what I’m hearing is we need one more nomination. :thinking:

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* I know I said I’d do this tomorrow but uh, I looked at my schedule and trust me, now is better

Reminder that you can see the full linked and prettified list of nominations here

VOTING IS ESSENTIAL AND READING IS FUNDAMENTAL
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Because this is a :sparkles: mystery club :sparkles: and we love twists and character reduction And Then There Where None anyone? :dagger: any books which receive no votes will be cut from next round nominations. This allows for more books to be added without fatiguing voters. You can re-nominate if you are very excited about the book, but then why didn’t you vote for it? :wink:

You have 5 votes, have fun!

  • 黒い森の記憶 | L30??
  • グラスホッパー | L35
  • 聖母 | L31
  • 柔らかな頬 上 | L30??
  • 十角館の殺人 | L30
  • 赤ずきん、旅の途中で死体と出会う。 | L30??
  • 大鞠家殺人事件 | L30??
  • テスカトリポカ | L35
  • 体育館の殺人 | L30??
  • アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス 1 | L30??
  • ノッキンオン・ロックドドア | L30??
  • スマホを落としただけなのに 囚われの殺人鬼 | L28
  • 砂の家 | L30??
  • 変な家 | L30
  • 木洩れ日に泳ぐ魚 | L30??
  • 白光 | L30??
  • 模倣の殺意 | L30??
  • 名探偵は嘘をつかない | L30??
  • 透明人間は密室に潜む | L30??

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I should note that while I cast my vote there isn’t a book here that I’m not excited to read so whatever gets picked…I’m in :smiley:

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I’m suffering from decision paralysis :face_with_spiral_eyes:
I had been looking forward to the poll and now I don’t know how to vote. Obviously I’m interested in my own nominations, but is it fair to vote for them and ensure they’re not eliminated? What if no one else votes for them and they’re kept on as zombies? And I’m interested in most of the other nominations as well. Should I vote for other people’s nominations only? Maybe I’d be better off not voting at all? Why is this so hard? :scream:

Edit: Well, I finally voted. But just so you know, I’m full of regret for all the books I didn’t vote for. I’ll be happy whatever we end up reading.

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It’s tiiiime! \o/ Similar issues on my end: too many good options, not enough votes. ;_; Good luck to all the options; I’m very interested in seeing what gets cut after the first round. :eyes:

Ah, when does voting close?

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July 29th according to the OP.

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Whoops, thanks. Haven’t had my meeting coffee yet. :+1:

Put in my votes; there were like 10 I wanted to vote for; it was real sad cutting half of them. :cry:

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Oh sweet! Just voted!

Also, if you like mystery novels there’s a great Japanese BookTuber called Masaki Books who reviews a lot of mystery novels (including many from this list!)

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Do you guys think we should advertise this club over at the WK community a little more? There may be people who would be interested in participating but are not aware of the club’s existence.

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I mentioned it once but didn’t want to irritate people by talking about it too much :sweat_smile: I thought maybe I’d mention it when I did an update on the daily reading thread since it’d be unobtrusive but other ideas welcome!

Edit: also I watch Masaki :joy: some of my nominations and votes were definitely influenced by his videos

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Yes I’m not sure if it could be considered bad form, but I know I could have easily missed it (the Natively forum is so new, after all) and I would really have regretted it if I did. I could post a link in the Intermediate and Advanced book club threads, I’m sure a single unobtrusive post wouldn’t be too bad, right?

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Well, I for one am glad you decided to mention it over on the WK forums. :slight_smile:

I’d seen this thread back when it was still fresh, iirc, but lost track along the way. Great nominations, none of which I own, haha! I love a good mystery book though, so happy to get some new ones this way! … I might have a couple I could nominate for next round as well. :eyes:

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Finally sat down and looked through all the nominations and suddenly my wish list has grown by like 15 books :joy: There are a couple I’ll definitely be looking into reading whether they’re picked or not, but I’m with you guys, I’m down for really any of them to be picked! There’s so much interesting stuff here :eyes: This is gonna be a lot of fun, I’m excited!

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I’m glad to see all of my nominations have successfully exited The Danger Zone. :eyes:

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How exciting! So many nominations, so I literally just voted based on the book covers (how I pick lots of my books) ^^

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I voted for the 3 I already have in my collection… I didn’t even check what they are about… :see_no_evil:

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