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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Tracking through message: 46⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐Brideshead Revisited (352p) - 7
La Dame aux Camélias (256p) - 6
⭐Moby-Dick (720p) - 7
Pale Fire (246p) - 4
⭐I Am Legend (162p) - 7
⭐Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 11
⭐The Secret of the Old Clock (210p) - 7
Light in August (507p)
Little Men (329p) - 3
Waiting for Godot (87p) - 1
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 2024 in the CLASSICS category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.Books that qualify for this category:
1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.
2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.
3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end midnight PST October 16.
Tracking through message: 46⭐ Poll Candidate
Giovanni’s Room (224p) - 4
A Brief History of Time (226p) - 3
⭐Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 6
⭐A Christmas Carol (184p) - 9
⭐The Jungle Book (277p) - 6
The Nightingale (564p) - 4
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 7
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 2
⭐The Unbearable Lightness of Being (314p) - 6
Fahrenheit 451 (194p) - 2
The Song of Achilles (408p) - 4
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (309p) - 1
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (401p) - 2
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret Garden
The Handmaid's Tale
Rebecca
Little Women
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 2024 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.
Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end Midnight PST October 16
I second The Hunger Games
I second Empire of Pain
Miri wrote: "I second I Am Legend and I nominate Methamorphosis, 201 pages."Miri, the link to your book shows little readership. Perhaps you have mis-spelled the title? Are you actually nominating The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ?
I second American Dirt
I second The Name of the Rose.
This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks, nominated by Zeljka.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
This begins a group discussion of our Classics book selection, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, nominated by Quinty (Taylor's Version).Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
This begins a 3rd group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by sophiereadsbooks.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
mattie wrote: "we should be unpacking the minds of teen men more tbh because ive never heard of anyone else my age with this mindset. maybe there are more of us than i know?? i cant be sure"Mattie, your posts are in the wrong section. This book is not currently being read by this group. I am moving your comments to the Archive of modern books.
Tracking through message: 54⭐ Poll Candidate
The Master and Margarita (372p) - 5
The Hobbit (366p) - 5
⭐The Midnight Library (288p) - 8
The Goldfinch (771p) - 6
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 13
The War of the Worlds (192p) - 3
The Fellowship of the Ring (432p) - 4
Small Great Things (510) - 5
⭐Little Fires Everywhere (338p) - 8
⭐The Martian (384p) - 8
Ready Player One (374p) - 6
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret Garden
The Handmaid's Tale
Rebecca
Little Women
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Song of Achilles
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for November 2024 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.
Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end Midnight PST September 16
