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Here we go: honor voting!
Votes are weighted: 7 for 1st place, 5 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, and 1 for 1st. We will recognize four Pyrite honors (or Nickel books, since that’s sort of the silver equivalent to pyrite); we are limiting voting to only books that received at least one vote at any level in the Pyrite poll. This is not exactly RealCommittee procedure; it is, instead, a mashup of the straw polling regulations and the Newbery rules, put into play here to account for the fact that we don’t have a real nomination list and so the number of discrete titles we’re looking at could be vast without some limiter.
See below the break for the list of books that are eligible with that rule in place and to vote, as per usual, in the comments. We’ll leave this up until after the New Year, and post results probably on Monday.
Potential honorees, in fairly random order:
Most Dangerous
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Goodbye Stranger
Mosquitoland
I Crawl Through It
Cut Both Ways
Challenger Deep
Drowned City
Simon VS The Homo-Sapiens Agenda
The Walls Around Us
We Are All Made of Molecules
Saint Anything
Shadowshaper
Out of Darkness
What We Saw
All the Bright Places
Symphony for the City of the Dead
Cuckoo Song
The Game of Love and Death
A Thousand Nights
The Hired Girl
Honor Girl
Nimona
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
The Truth Commission
The Boy in the Black Suit
The Darkest Part of the Forest
More Happy Than Not
My Seneca Village
The Emperor of Any Place
Courage and Defiance
Audacity
The Accident Season
The Scorpion Rules
About Karyn Silverman
1. The Truth Commission by Susan Juby
2. The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
3. A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston
4. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
1. Challenger Deep
2. Symphony for the City of the Dead
3. Most Dangerous
4. I Crawl Through It
1. More Happy Than Not
2. Challenger Deep
3. The Walls Around Us
4. The Hired Girl
Bone Gap
The Walls Around Us
The Hired Girl
Symphony for the City of the Dead
Bone Gap won the Pyrite Vote. This vote is for the Honor Books. You should adjust your vote up one by removing Bone Gap and adding a fourth place book.
thanks! remove Bone Gap, add The Game of Love and Death
1. Challenger Deep
2. Shadowshaper
3. Symphony for the City of the Dead
4. Nimona
Cuckoo Song
The Game of Love and Death
Cut Both Ways
Symphony for the City of the Dead
1. The Darkest Part of the Forest
2. The Boy in the Black Suit
3. Goodbye Stranger
4. Symphony for the City of the Dead
Wish I remembered I’ll Meet You There in the Pyrite voting; it was one of my favorites of the year but I didn’t realize it was published in January. And there’s been not a whisper about it, so there’s no way it would net – well, anything, but I’d feel better 🙂
Most Dangerous
Symphony for the City of the Dead
The Hired Girl
Cuckoo Song
1. MOST DANGEROUS
2. SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD
3. THE HIRED GIRL
4. MY SENECA VILLAGE
1. Nimona
2. Challenger Deep
3. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
4. Goodbye Stranger
1. Symphony for the City of the Dead
2. The Walls Around Us
3. Cuckoo Song
4. Challenger Deep
1. Challenger Deep
2. Simon Vs. Homo Sapiens Agenda
3. Hired Girl
4. The Rest of us Just Live Here
1. Challenger Deep
2. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B
3. Audacity
4. Most Dangerous
Most Dangerous
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Goodbye Stranger
The Hired Girl
1. Challenger Deep
2. Most Dangerous
3. Drowned City
4. Nimona
1. Challenger Deep
2. The Hired Girl
3. A Thousand Nights
4. Mosquitoland
1. Most Dangerous
2. The Walls Around Us
3. The Hired Girl
4. Nimona
1. Cuckoo Song
2. Most Dangerous
3. Emperor of Any Place
4. Courage and Defiance
and I wish there were 5; The Rest of Us Just Live Here
1. Unlikely Hero of Room 13-B
2. Symphony for the City of the Dead
3. Challenger Deep
4. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
1. Symphony for the City of the Dead
2. Most Dangerous
3. Audacity
4. Scorpion Rules
Wish I could have included “Conviction”.
1. Challenger Deep
2. Symphony for the City of the Dead
3. The Wall Around Us
4. Cuckoo Song
Please disregard this comment.
1. The Game of Love and Death
2. A Thousand Nights
3. Goodbye, Stranger
4. The Walls Around Us
I don’t know if my comment got in? But I’m posting my list again, with some modification.
1. Cuckoo Song
2. Challenger Deep
3. Symphony…
4. The Wall Around Us
1. Cuckoo Song
2. Audacity
3. A Thousand Nights
4. The Scorpion Rules
1. I Crawl Through It (I just finished it. May have hated it. But I can’t stop thinking about it. Brilliant or bizarre? I DON’T KNOW!)
2. The Walls Around Us
3. A Thousand Nights
4. The Scorpion Rules
1. Mosquitoland
2. More Happy Than Not
3. The Game of Love and Death
4. Simon vs. the Homo-Sapiens Agenda
1. Symphony for the City of the Dead
2. Most Dangerous
3. Cuckoo Song
4. Simon vs. the Homo-Sapiens Agenda