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Aug 13, 2025 05:45PM

189072 I second Sleepy Hollow.
Aug 04, 2025 09:37AM

189072 I second Talk About Kevin and Weyward.
Aug 02, 2025 09:52AM

189072 I second Time Traveller's Wife.
Aug 01, 2025 08:31PM

189072 Pony wrote: "Are we allowed to nominate graphic novels?"

Sure, seems okay to me, as long as they are rated by at least 50k readers.
Aug 01, 2025 11:17AM

189072 I nominate Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, 513 pages.
Aug 01, 2025 11:01AM

189072 I nominate Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin, 308 pages.

I second Ivan Denisovich.
Aug 01, 2025 10:48AM

189072 I nominate Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, 293 pages.

I second The Jungle Book.
Aug 01, 2025 10:44AM

189072 This begins our 2nd group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by Renata.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Aug 01, 2025 10:41AM

189072 This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, nominated by Lea.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Aug 01, 2025 10:39AM

189072 This begins a group discussion of our Classic book selection, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, nominated by Elina.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Jul 31, 2025 12:21PM

189072 Tracking through message: 54
📖Poll Candidate

Home Before Dark (389p) - 6
The Women (471p) - 5
The House of the Spirits (448p) - 3
📖The Bluest Eye (216p) - 7
Horrorstör (248p) - 5
You Like It Darker (502p) - 2
This Is How It Always Is (338p) - 1
📖Let the Right One In (513p) - 7
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye (144p) - 3
Carrie (272p) - 6
📖Weyward (392p) - 8
📖The Berry Pickers (307p) - 7
We Need to Talk About Kevin (400p) - 4
Twisted Love (343p) - 2
The Wedding People (384p) - 4
Practical Magic (286p) - 1
House of Leaves (710p) - 1
The Guest List (319p) - 2
Jul 31, 2025 12:20PM

189072 Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2025 in the MODERN/POPULAR category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-Up 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 August 16.
Jul 31, 2025 12:18PM

189072 Tracking through message: 48
📖Poll Candidate

📖The Yellow Wall-Paper (62p) - 9
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (182p) - 5
Black Beauty (245p) - 6
Things Fall Apart (215p) - 3
📖My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 11
Night (120p) - 8
Invisible Man (581p) - 6
Rosemary’s Baby (308p) - 5
📖We Have Always Lived in the Castle (152p) - 10
📖The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (108p) - 9
On the Road (307p) - 3
Jul 31, 2025 12:17PM

189072 Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2025 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 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 August 16.
Jul 31, 2025 12:15PM

189072 Tracking through message: 51
📖Poll Candidate

The Canterville Ghost (126p) - 2
📖The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 7
Giovanni’s Room (178p) - 3
📖Dracula (488p) - 7
📖The Jungle Book (277p) - 8
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 6
📖Something Wicked This Way Comes (293p) - 7
📖Frankenstein (288p) - 7
The Time Traveller's Wife (537p) - 2
Perfume. The story of a murderer (263p) - 2
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
Jane Eyre (532p) - 3
The Secret History (559p) - 4
The Shining (497p) - 2
Jul 31, 2025 12:13PM

189072 These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Sense and Sensibility
The Alchemist
Northanger Abbey
And Then There Were None
The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jul 31, 2025 12:12PM

189072 Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2025 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 August 16
189072 I second My Brilliant Friend.
Jul 03, 2025 01:11PM

189072 Elina wrote: "I nominate The bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, 288pages"

Elina, The Bell Jar has already been read by this group, so you can nominate this book in the Catch-Up topic. Any other classic book to suggest instead?
Jul 01, 2025 10:58AM

189072 I nominate Papillon by Henri Charrière, 544 pages.

I second For Whom the Bell Tolls.