Pyrite: Let the Honors Commence

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 […]
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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

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