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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: 47⭐ Poll Candidate
Steppenwolf (256p) - 1
Gulliver’s Travels (306p) -4
⭐ The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 11
Ivanhoe (496p) - 2
⭐A Hero of Our Time (185p) - 5
⭐Madame Bovary (329p) - 5
Little Men (329p) - 1
⭐Dandelion Wine (239p) - 6
⭐ Cat’s Cradle (179p) - 9
A Little Princess (242p) - 1
The Maltese Falcon (213p) - 1
Howards End (318p) - 4
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 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 June 16.
Tracking through message: 52⭐ Poll Candidate
Anna Karenina (964p)
⭐ Never Let Me Go (288p) - 10
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 4
Brave New World (268p) - 5
⭐ Ready Player One (374p) - 7
⭐ The Joy Luck Club (352p) - 9
⭐ Jurassic Park (466p) - 8
Peter Pan (176p) - 6
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
Good Omens (491p) - 2
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Haunting of Hill House
Emma
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 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 June 16
Raquel wrote: "I nominate The Princess Bride by William Goldman. 429p."Thank you for the nomination. I will also add the 3 seconds that were posted in the Modern topic.
Raquel wrote: "I nominate The Princess Bride by William Goldman. 429p.I second Sea of Tranquility."
The Princess Bride was read by this group in 2019, so belongs in the Catch-Up section. Maybe another book?
Theresa wrote: "Linda wrote: "I nominate The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 154 pages"I know the rule is no repeats of re-reads in twelve months, and this wasn't a re-read, b..."
Let's leave it as is for now. A recently read book will likely not be selected for catch-up.
I second the Thursday Murder Club.
I second Study in Scarlet and Life of Pi.
Quinty (Taylor's Version) wrote: "I'd like to nominate Lady Susan by Jane Austen. While the edition I've linked doesn't have 50k ratings, there are multiple other editions of Lady Susan bundled with other..."I understand your point, but hesitate to digress from our usual practice. The linked book is the most popular edition, and so it's the one we use to determine page & rating numbers. Sorry to disappoint, but maybe another book instead?.
I second Sea of Tranquility.
I second Astrophysics.
This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, nominated by Nicole.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, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
This begins a 2nd group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by Pony.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Tracking through message: 39⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐The House of Mirth (351p) - 8
The Mayor of Casterbridge (393p) - 4
⭐Kidnapped (288p) - 8
For Whom the Bell Tolls (471p) - 2
⭐We (226p) - 7
Valley of the Dolls (448p) - 2
⭐The Canterville Ghost (126p) - 8
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 3
