Best Books of 2011
Thank you Tom Angleberger for designing our nerdy logo.
Do you love to read? Is talking about books something that you can’t live without?
If you answered yes to those questions, congratulations, you are a member of the Nerdy Book Club (NBC).
The NBC has decided to take our love for books to the next level. We have spent the last year discussing our favorite books: at conferences, #titletalk, #bookaday, Twitter, Goodreads, libraries, on the phone, through email, and in classrooms. It just seems appropriate that we honor the books we love by naming them “Nerdy Book Club Best Books of 2011”.
This is how things things will work.
1. Nominations
Nominations will run from December 1 to December 8. To nominate please follow this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VZPH2DQ
After nominations close, NBC members will sort through nominations and put together a list of finalists.
2. Voting
A link for voting will be provided on December 11. Voting will run through December 16.
3. Book List
The NBC Best Books of 2011 will be announced December 18th, at the monthly NBC meeting #titletalk. For more information on #titletalk please click on the link to go to Colby Sharp’s post on the November Title Talk: http://sharpread.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/november-2011-titletalk/
4. What Next?
We will reveal more activities soon.
5. Nerdy Book Blogs
If you would like your blog added to the Nerdy Book Blog list on the right side of this webpage, please leave a link to your blog in the comments section of this post.
Nerdy Book Club 
Awesome! I’ve been dying to read the nerdy book club news since you guys started teasing it! If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know!
Amanda
Ps, would love to be on the sidebar! http://maestra-Amanda.blogspot.com
Awesome! Love the logo… saved me the step of asking graphic designer BIL about designing one!
Add my blog: http://nextbestbook.blogspot.com
Super exciting! I’ve been waiting for the announcement. Count me in! ::goes to make a list::
Hi! I’d love to be a member – please list me on the blogroll – From Tots to Teens
http://www.youngpeoplesbooks.blogspot.com
You all are getting things done! 🙂 Susan
I want to join the NBC! Love this idea!
Here is my blog link:
http://bethsfbtb.blogspot.com
Awesome! Book Nerds of the World, Unite and Take Over (The Smiths song ringing in my ears).
Love this!
http://www.picturebooklog.blogspot.com
I can’t wait to nominate some books. Could we please have our blog added to the “Nerdy Book Bloggers” section?
Thanks!
Cathy
@cppotter
http://nonfictiondetectives.blogspot.com
Hooray! I have been anxiously awaiting this announcement all day! I was hoping I could be a member of The Nerdy Book Club!
Thank you!
You guys are so creative! What a great idea. I’ve been wondering what you were up for days.
I would love to be part of the Nerdy Book Bloggers. My blog is at http://readingtl.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Crystal
This is fantastic! I love the logo.
Can I be added to the blog list?
My blog is at http://pageintraining.wordpress.com
Thanks,
Sarah
First of all, I love the blog design 😉 (Mine is the same.)
Second, this is a GREAT idea! I’m excited to vote for the best book.
Here’s my blog link: http://yaloveblog.com
I hope we can get t-shirts!
My blog is: http://spottoread.blogspot.com
Thanks for the fun!
Karla
@teacher6th
Tshirts! YES!!! Pink?
Hooray for the NBC! I’ve been a proud member since the day it was unofficially/officialy formed. 🙂
This is awesome! I’ve recently rediscovered the joy of reading for fun, and am working to instill that passion in my students. I’m definitely going to be keeping up with this website!
Also, I would love to have my blog added to the sidebar. It’s mainly an educational technology blog, but I recently added a section about books that I’m currently reading: http://www.meandmylaptop.weebly.com
Jessica
I love this!!! Yay for the Nerdy Book Club!! Can we have t-shirts? 🙂
(and please count me in for the sidebar) thereadingzone.wordpress.com
So much fun! I was so excited to see what the surprise was today. The logo is fantastic! Who’s making the shirts and buttons?
I definitely want to be included as a member of the Nerdy Book Blog list: Heise Reads & Recommends at http://heisereads.blogspot.com
I am proud to be a nerdy book lover! I am looking forward to getting (and sharing) great book recommendations with other book nerds! Eat, sleep, read! :))
Hooray! A place for me. Can we talk?
My blog is at http://suburbanfamiliar.blogspot.com/
Where reading and writing and suburban life intersect.
Looking forward to more….
Carol
Love, love, love this! I definitely belong in the #nerdybookclub! Getting my nominations ready. Would love it if my blog could be included in the blog roll.
http://www.thebookmavenshaven.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Susan
Here is my blog link: http://arepreading.tumblr.com A Rep Reading. I promise I’m nerdy!
Nerds unite! Love it! I feel at home already! I am going to blog your awesomeness, and I would love to be included in your list of Nerdy Book Bloggers!
We’re bringing Nerdy Back! : )
thelemmelibrary.blogspot.com
So fabulous! Can you please add me too? http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com
Love the site!
It is awesome to see our Twitter fantasies come to life.
NBC member from day one for life 🙂
Love this! And would love to be included on your list of nerdy book bloggers, too!
http://www.katemessner.com/blog/
I am so excited and can’t wait to nominate some of my favorite books!! Please include my blog on your site 🙂
http://curlsandasmile.blogspot.com
I am a card-carrying member of the Nerdy Book Club. And by card-carrying, I mean credit card-carrying. You know, in case I need to buy books. 🙂 I’d love to be included in the blog roll!
ourcampreadalot.blogspot.com
Laura
@Komos72
OMG! I am a nerdy book lover!!! Since the ripe age of 3. I used to pitch fits on Sunday afternoons because everyone else was reading, and I didn’t know how. Enough fit pitching wore my mom down, and I got to go to Kindergarten a whole year early (private-public wasn’t “invented”!).
I want a t-shirt, too! 🙂
Please add my blog to the sidebar.
Shannon
http://6thgradescottforesmanreadingstreetresources.wordpress.com/
Great idea! Another nerdy blog: http://tasblogs.tas.edu.tw/wpmu/middletonb/
Sounds interesting!
This sounds great! Please add me to the list of participants/members.
http://www.galleysmith.com
new to it, but my blog is http://mrsduke.wordpress.com
I want a tshirt. in yellow.
Okay, I’m in.
Had the Nerdy Book Club been around when I was a kid, I would have been a proud member … of something else. But things change. My, how things change. And here we are, the NBC and me. I couldn’t be happier.
A few people mentioned t-shirts, and for what it’s worth, I’m partial to 1980’s world tour shirts. White shirt, black 3/4 sleeves, cities and dates on the back. Timeless.
It would be an honor to be added to the blogroll. http://www.HelpReadersLoveReading.com
So excited to finally know the secret news. And yes, I so want to be a member of the Nerdy Book Club. Please include me in the blog roll:
http://www.kidlitfrenzy.com
I so happy to hear that this group has been started. I am proud to be called a Nerdy Book Club member. And please include me in your blog roll: http://www.kidlitfrenzy.com
You can’t get much nerdier than Franki and me! We’d be proud to be on your blogroll!
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/
And you can bet we’ll be nominating books!
So fun. So loving it! Looking forward to the book chat here as well as in the tweet feed. It’s fun to see so many twitter friends here 🙂
My blog for the blogroll if you still have room: http://www.trycuriosity.com
Thanks Colby and Donna!
In case you missed reading my post about being a fanatical reader since the ripe age of 4, I will post again. 🙂 I love to read. I bought a kindle this summer, and it’s great to have because of my sometimes not always impatient behavior, BUT I still like to hold the book. Smell the book. Be the book. Do you get my drift? I.love.reading. It’s like I have to come up for air when I read because I get so drawn into their world. 🙂
Please add me to the sidebar! 🙂
http://6thgradescottforesmanreadingstreetresources.wordpress.com/
Shannon
HAIL! HAIL! The Nerdy Book Club.
Thanks for the opportunity to be added to the blogroll…
http://www.chocolateair.blogspot.com
I definitely want to be a card carrying member of the Nerdy Book Club! As a person who has endured years of hearing, “Are you reading another book” or “The house could crash around you and you would never know when you’re reading” – I believe this is the perfect club for me! Count me in! http://bellbulldogreaders.edublogs.org
Julie
Nerdy Book Club membership seems to have its privileges! Yes? Please take a look at Book Kvetch, my nonfiction book review blog!
http://bookkvetch.com
Rebecca
Oh this is my place to be for sure! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea! So glad one of my friends tweeted about this. Please add me to your blog roll:
http://learnlovegrow.blogspot.com Gracias!!! Stella
This is very exciting stuff — the idea of belonging to a virtual book club is wonderful. I so appreciate the efforts the creators put into doing this. The posts have been terrific!!!!!
Please count our blog into the blog rolls as well!
http://literatelives.blogspot.com/ – Literate Lives
Best.idea.ever!
My blog
http://www.thebrainlair.com
Best.Idea.Ever!
http://www.thebrainlair.com
I am happy to join this club, and I am ever so grateful to its founders. Books have always been a part of my life. How awesome that we have a place to share them with fellow book nerds!
I would be honored if you would include my teaching/book blog on this blog roll. 🙂
Teaching in Cute Shoes
http://teachingincuteshoes.blogspot.com/
So much fun! I love this idea!
http://liblaura5.blogspot.com/
I found it! Defintley count me in! http://kaymcgriff.edublogs.org
So happy to join the Nerdy Book Club! I love that all my favorite people are now blogging in one place!
http://mrsmckennareads.blogspot.com
Please add my blog: http://bulldogsread.wordpress.com/
So I’m working on blogging more. It would be an incentive … to know that the link was here on the sidebar. ;]
http://www.msoreadsbooks.com
PS I totally have to get one of the shirts because Tom A. is coming to my school the end of January!
I’m as nerdy as you get. Please count me in. http://literaryasylum.blogspot.com
We’re definitely in your club!!!
Here’s a link to our site: http://www.sweetonbooks.com/
Love the Nerdy Book Club. Great work.
Here is a link to my library/book blog: (a to z library)
http://azlibrarylady.blogspot.com/
Love this blog. Would be honored and appreciative and glad and happy and thrilled and amazed and full of excitement and wonder if you would add my blog to the blogroll. 🙂
Shannon
http://6thgradescottforesmanreadingstreetresources.wordpress.com/
OK-I’m trying again!
Am I nerdy enough if I made my 17 year old daughter drive us to Montgomery to go shopping so I could finish reading Okay For Now by Gary Schmidt?????? 🙂 We did end up having some great mother/daughter time, but Doug kept butting in a little1 🙂
Please add me to the sidebar so that I, too, can be a member of the Nerdy Book Club!
Shannon
http://6thgradescottforesmanreadingstreetresources.wordpress.com/
I am a nerdy book club member, I took Tony’s quiz and it said so :-). Please add my blog to your site. http://nicolesbooknook.blogspot.com/. Thank you!
Hello Nerdy Book Club! I’m so happy to have found you and am excited to see what you have in store!
I actually have two blogs, and I’d really appreciate it if you would add one or both to your sidebar 🙂
Book review blog: http://fumafiles.blogspot.com
Writing blog: http://mfumarolo.blogspot.com
Thank you!
I can’t believe that I’ve only read one of the nominees! I’m definitely printing the list of best book nominations and hunting some of them down for my classroom library!
I’ve been looking for a nerdy book club! Happy to find you, and looking forward to discussions on YA and kids’ lit.
If you like, please add my site to your blogroll: http://www.teamblood.org
I will be posting book reviews regularly, and I love YA lit, so it will be appearing a lot.
I’d also love to do a guest post sometime!
Cheers,
Jocelyn
Please enter my blog, http://www.themusingsofabookaddict.com
Love the blog, and what you’re doing! I would like to be added to the list.
Thanks!
Frans Vischer
Please add me! I am a new blogger, but have been an unofficial Nerdy Book Club member my whole life!!
http://fanaticalreader.wordpress.com/
Thanks!
Christy
This is going to be a great year for Nerdy Book Club members! I can tell! Please add me to your blogroll; I’d be honored to be in such great company!
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What a neat site! Can’t believe I just found this. Please add me to your blog roll. I’m going to start reviewing all the suggestions! Thank you!
http://www.littlepriorities.blogspot.com
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