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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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JoJo_theDoDo wrote: "I'd like to nominate Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr"Hi JoJo. Your book sounds interesting, but would be better nominated in the Modern topic. This is the bookshelf catch-up selection.
Valerie wrote: "I'd like to nominate 
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin368pgs"
Valerie, this book doesn't quite make our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings (see message 1 above). Is there another book you would like to suggest instead?
Tracking through message: 49⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐Kafka on the Shore (467p) - 6
Mad Honey (464p) - 4
Cloud Cuckoo Land (626p) - 1
News of the World (209p) - 3
⭐The Name of the Rose (536p) - 6
The Secret Life of Bees (302p) - 2
Shadow and Bone (358p) - 4
Plainsong (301p) - 1
⭐The House of the Spirits (448p) - 6
The Kind Worth Killing (320p) - 2
⭐The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (380p) - 6
The Hunger Games (374p) - 5
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (229p) - 1
The Shipping News (337p)
The Road (241p) - 4
The Wishing Game (304p)
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2024 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 April 16.
Tracking through message: 59⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (288p) - 6
⭐The Turn of the Screw (121p) - 6
Waiting for Godot (109p) - 2
⭐2001: A Space Odyssey (297p) - 9
⭐The Canterville Ghost (126p) - 6
⭐Kidnapped (288p) - 8
Twelve Years a Slave (363p) - 4
Oliver Twist (608p) - 4
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 3
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (212p) - 5
Man’s Search for Meaning (165p) - 5
⭐Heidi (352p) - 7
On the Road (307p) - 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 3
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 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 April 16.
Tracking through message: 53⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 6
The Great Gatsby (180p) - 3
Station Eleven (333p) - 4
⭐The Secret Garden (331p) - 7
Good Omens (491p) - 5
Circe (393p) - 1
⭐A Study in Scarlet (123p) - 7
Gone Girl (415p) - 1
⭐Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (258p) - 7
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 4
The Hobbit (366p) - 4
A Man Called Ove (337p) - 1
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 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 April 16
This begins a 3rd group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by Nicole.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
I second The Handmaid's Tale
I second Ivan Denisovich
This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, The Giver by Lois Lowry, nominated by Lea.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, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, nominated by Theresa.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Valerie wrote: "I nominate This Perfect Day published 1970, 368 pg."Valerie, this book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings. Is there another book you would like to suggest?
Tracking through message: 42⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐ Cannery Row (181p) - 12
⭐ A Doll's House (122p) - 5
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 4
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 4
⭐ La Dame aux Camélias (256p) - 5
The Woman in White (672p) - 4
⭐ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (182p) - 6
⭐ The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 7
The Jungle (335p) - 1
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (720p) - 1
The Pilgrim's Progress (324p) - 1
Howards End (318p) - 4
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 March 16.
