Voting for MBC Books for 2025-2026

In total, you will choose up to 13 books, from a list of thirty books, organized into 9 groups.

·      Go here for detailed instructions, and more: https://www.mysterybookfan.com/vote-for-our-2025-2026-reading-list/

·      If at all possible, use the online ballot for your final voting; it speeds up the counting process. Go here to the online ballot:  https://forms.office.com/r/fu3br38eua

·      You can print this web page to make a practice or final paper ballot.

This is Ballot item #1: Print your first & last name on the line below. If you are using this as a final paper ballot to hand in to Maddy, please print your name below.

 

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This is Ballot Group #2: You can choose up to 3.

o I Need You To Read This  by Jessa Maxwell

o The God of the Woods  by Liz Moore

o Famous Last Words  by Gillian McAllister

o The Violin Conspiracy   by Brendan Slocum

o The Woman in the Library   by Sulari Gentill

o Jackal   by Erin E. Adams

o Here One Moment   by Liane Moriarty

 

This is Ballot Group #3: You can choose up to 2.   

o The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

o The Return of Farz Ali   by Aamina Ahmed

o The Frozen River   by Ariel Lawhon

o What You Leave Behind   by Wanda M. Morris

o The Cutting Season    by Attica Locke

 

This is Ballot Group #4: You can choose up to 1.

o Circle In the Water   by Marcia Muller

o We Begin at the End   by Chris Whitaker

o Where They Last Saw Her  by Marcie Rendon

 

This is Ballot Group #5: You can choose up to 1.

o The Oligarch's Daughter   by Joseph Finder

o Two Nights in Lisbon   by Chris Pavone

 

This is Ballot Group #6: You can choose up to 2.

o Vanishing Point   by Marcia Muller

o Nightshade   by Michael Connelly

o The Keeper of Lost Causes  by Jussi Adler-Olsen

o Double Deuce   by Robert Parker

 

This is Ballot Group #7: You can choose up to 1.

o Agony Hill   by Sarah Stewart Taylor

o All the Colors of the Dark   by Chris Whitaker

 

This is Ballot Group #8: You can choose up to 1.

o The Talented Mr. Ripley  by Patricia Highsmith

o Hard Row   by Margaret Maron

  

This is Ballot Group #9: You can choose up to 1.

o The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : A Shocking Murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective   by Kate Summerscale.

o Framed : Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions   by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey.

o Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI   by David Grann

 

This is Ballot Group #10: Choose just 1.

o Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone    by Benjamin Stevenson

o A Fashionably French Murder   by Colleen Cambridge