Welcome to Litsy!

After announcing the 6 fabulous books for #camplitsy24, Meg, Barbara and I thought you might like to see the 10 books that ‘nearly‘ made the list. (In no particular order)

James was by far our runaway winner, with 4 in 10 Littens voting for it. Next were Bear and Clear, with around a quarter of you voting for each one.

The other 3 winning books gained just a few more votes than these 10, so a close-run race!

We‘d love to hear your thoughts!

I‘m thrilled to be hosting your August #camplitsy24 books!

First, we‘ll be heading off to Ireland to read about 4 gifted sisters in The Alternatives, then heading to the Pacific Northwest to read Bear, which was our second most voted for book, after James.

We‘ll confirm all of the dates for each book shortly.

That‘s all 6 books revealed now, what do you think of our final two, and of the full selection for camp? 🏕️

Repost for #Megabooks

I am incredibly excited to be your counselor for July! We‘ll start off with the #1 vote getter, James, and if you haven‘t read Everett, be ready to leap into his backlist after this because he‘s wonderful. Then very appropriately we‘ll move on to Miranda July‘s All Fours. An artist on the edge? Yes, please! I hope you‘ll join us for one or both books! #CampLitsy24

See original post at https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2728511

Repost for @BarbaraBB

Meg, Helen and I are so glad you are as thrilled as we are about #CampLitsy24: 74 people voted, which is a new record!
Clear will be our first June read, followed by Butter. We hope you‘re happy with these first books!
I‘ll be your host in June & will get back to you with the reading schedule.

See original post at https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2728155

I am incredibly excited to be your counselor for July! We‘ll start off with the #1 vote getter, James, and if you haven‘t read Everett, be ready to leap into his backlist after this because he‘s wonderful. Then very appropriately we‘ll move on to Miranda July‘s All Fours. An artist on the edge? Yes, please! I hope you‘ll join us for one or both books! #CampLitsy24

@squirrelbrain will announce August‘s books tomorrow!

Meg, Helen and I are so glad you are as thrilled as we are about #CampLitsy24: 74 people voted, which is a new record!
@Chelsea.Poole was it so CLEAR that Clear would be one of the selected books 🤣? You were right: it will be our first June read, followed by Butter. We hope you‘re happy with these first books!
I‘ll be your host in June & will get back to you with the reading schedule. Tomorrow check Meg‘s thread: she‘ll announce the July reads!

I am amazed at all of the nominations for #camplitsy this year. This was a really tough decision, and there are so many more I‘m just as interested in reading. But after spending an enjoyable afternoon reading as many blurbs as I could, I wound up voting for these 6. I wonder if any of them will wind up on our camp roster. We‘ll see!

Thank you so much to our hardworking hosts!

Well that was difficult! (I mean that in the best way!) 😆 Just picked 6 books off the long list for #CampLitsy24
So many great books to pick from & so many I wasn‘t familiar with-which is kind of the beauty of it. Can‘t wait to see what‘s picked!

Check out @BarbaraBB ‘s posts for the list & voting link if you haven‘t yet & want to get your vote in.

Thank you @BarbaraBB @Megabooks & @squirrelbrain for all of the work that goes into camp!🏕️

You know it‘s serious work when I pull out my computer for Litsy. Worked on my shortlist for #CampLitsy24 and my votes are in! It was hard to narrow down. I‘m curious what the shortlist will be!
Mad props to whoever prepared the spreadsheet - that made it much easier!

Original post https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2726565

#CampLitsy24 longlist!!
Although we limited the amount of nominations to 4 this year, we still have an extensive list of over a 100 books!
List
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1iQ7oQlt8wDxGcYpALoW0aPaCQXD-SeMQ/edit?usp=docsli...
Vote
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetrJPkP9fSZSNIy-KnMrx-OhqbKlz_EJ2LVjQe...

I'm so excited to see what gets picked! @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain

My #camplitsy24 nominations are:
~Murder Road by Simone St. James
~Family Family by Laurie Frankel
~Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
~The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

@squirrelbrain @megabooks @barbarabb

Very excited for #CampLitsy24! Under the wire, here are my four nominations. Thank you for hosting again this year @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain !

ICYMI Camp Litsy is back! You still have until Sunday to nominate up to four books for #CampLitsy24. The books need to be published in 2024 but before mid-June.

In June, July, and August, we will read two books a month with discussion led by Me, @squirrelbrain or @BarbaraBB each Saturday. After we publish the longlist of nominees, we‘ll have voting by Google Doc to come up with the six books for Camp. Lmk if you‘d like to be tagged in posts!

#campLitsy24 @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks
It‘s late ⏰😣 but if nominations still open …here we go 👆 thanks 🙏 for doing this can‘t wait to see the winners and read along … 🏕️ 📚🤓

I‘ve spent way too much time obsessing over this!

#CampLitsy24

Here are my nominees for #camplitsy24 @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

I‘m seeing some great nominees for #CampLitsy24 (voting is going to be hard)! I‘d like to throw these 4 into the ring as my nominees.

Here are my nominations for #CampLitsy24
Excited to see what gets picked!

See the post from @BarbaraBB if you‘d like to participate.

Here are my nominations for #CampLitsy2024

See the post from @BarbaraBB if you‘d like to join in the fun!

I cannot wait for #CampLitsy24 ! I absolutely loved it last summer and still think about the fantastic books we read! Can‘t wait to see everyone‘s picks and see which ones win! Here‘s my four picks to add to the mix! All great new 2024 releases I‘m excited for! Thank you soo much for hosting this awesome event again camp counselors! 🏕️

Here are my choices! Thanks to you lovely ladies for hosting again ♥️ @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB @Megabooks #CampLitsy24

I‘m so excited that we‘ve launched #camplitsy24 - here are my 4 nominations.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone else picks, and to my TBR list growing exponentially!

If #camplitsy24 is new to you, take a look at @BarbaraBB ‘s post from earlier today and make your own 4 nominations. We‘ll then all vote for 6 books from the long list and discuss them throughout the summer here on Litsy.

Yes, the rumors are true…Camp Litsy is back! Please check @BarbaraBB ‘s page for details!! Here are my nominees for #CampLitsy24. 😁👍🏻🏕️ We can‘t wait to see you there!

We are pleased to announce a new edition of Camp Litsy🏕️

We're opening nominations for the longlist now. We invite you all to suggest 4 books to read this summer. Post your choices on Litsy with #CampLitsy24 and tag @Megabooks, @squirrelbrain and @BarbaraBB The nominated books need to be published in 2024 and by 15 June so campers can procure the final choices.

Nominations are open until 21 April. Then we'll publish the longlist for voting

We are pleased to announce a new edition of Camp Litsy 🏕️ 📚

We're opening nominations for the longlist now. We invite you all to suggest 4 books to read this summer. Post your choices on Litsy with #CampLitsy24 and tag @Megabooks, @squirrelbrain and me. The nominated books need to be published in 2024 and by 15 June so campers can procure the final choices.

Nominations are open until 21 April. Then we‘ll publish the longlist for voting ⬇️⬇️

Time to vote on which July #CampLitsy23 book was your favorite Yellowface or Hijab Butch Blues. I really enjoyed both books and discussions!

I‘ll announce the winner Wednesday morning, so get your vote in before then. The winner will face Bandit Queens and August‘s winner for Best of Camp.

Your camp hosts thought you‘d like to see the next 6 books for #camplitsy23 - those that nearly made it but didn‘t!

It was very close with the winners changing with almost every vote. Questions and August Blue were very close, only missing out by a single vote each. The remaining 4 books received a few votes less, but all were on the same score.

And I make no apologies for using the UK cover of Big Swiss; so much nicer than the US one! 🤣

Attention campers! This weekend is the last chance to vote for the books we'll be reading at #CampLitsy23 this summer! You do not have to have nominated books to vote, and you don't have to vote to read with us this summer. Please let us know if you want to be added to our tag list!

Before you vote, check out the full longlist here: bit.ly/41VFK5X

And here is the voting form: https://forms.gle/9JQ3j35AtC5STjXt9

@barbarabb @squirrelbrain

Repost for @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain and @Megabooks

#CampLitsy23

Time to vote for the six books you would like to read at camp. See original post https://litsy.com/p/RG92ZUs4M3l5 for links to the long list and voting form. Please vote by Monday.

Newbie camper here!! Here are my six picks (this was hard 😂)! Looking forward to “camp” 💚💚 #CampLitsy23 #CampLitsy @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain

ICYMI! We are pleased to announce #CampLitsy23! We‘re opening nominations for the longlist. We invite folks to suggest 6 books for campers to read this summer. Post your choices on Litsy with #CampLitsy23 and tag me, @BarbaraBB and @squirrelbrain . The nominated books need to be published in 2023 and by 15 June, so campers can procure the final choices.

Nominations are open until 25 April. Then we will publish the longlist for voting. Details ⬇️

My nominations for #camplitsy2023

Need to make this official before I‘m paralyzed by anxiety. 🤣 #CampLitsy23

It‘s been so exciting seeing everyone‘s #camplitsy23 nominations today - here are mine! There‘s a couple of duplicates, the Levy and Fuller but hopefully some new ones too!

We‘d love you to join in; if you haven‘t been to camp in previous years and you want to know what it‘s all about, check out the hashtag #camplitsy23 or my previous post, or those on Barbara and Meg‘s pages.

🏕️❤️🏕️❤️🏕️❤️🏕️❤️🏕️❤️🏕️❤️🏕️❤️

I‘ve already seen so many books nominated for #CampLitsy23 that I‘d love to read, it‘s killing for my TBR. To add some to the mix, here are my nominations. A few of them have been nominated already, but fortunately not all of them!

These are my six selections for #CampLitsy23! Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield, House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola, Homecoming by Kate Morton, Birman Wood by Eleanor Catton, Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon & Godkiller by Hannah Kaner. Looking forward to it this June. What are your selections? For more details see either of the 3 tagged Littens original posts.

Nominations for #camplitsy23 🏕️
I‘m so excited to see what everyone comes up with but my tbr is terrified 😂
Titles tagged in comments ⬇️