answer:How about changing the policy? Rather than having one person choose a book for the whole group to read, you could have people vote on it. One thing which may work is to e-mail everyone, tell them that as of January, you are changing things up a little, and including a list of five books or so, one of which will be your January book. People who are rarely there will still have a say, but it’s less of an absolute decision. I’d make sure to add that votes which are not sent in within a certain period of time are not counted.