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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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I second Shogun
I nominate The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (404 pages)
23/25👍01. Author’s first book - The Thursday Murder Club
👍02. Award winner - The Things They Carried
👍03. Essay/ short-story collection - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
👍04. Fantasy/ sci-fi - The Hunger Games
🥱05. First in a series - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
👍06. From an author new to you - The Bittlemores
👍07. From the year you were born - The Price of Salt, or Carol
👎08. Graphic novel - The Mysteries
09. Holiday story - A Christmas Carol
👍10. Less than 100 pages - The Old Man and the Sea
👍11. More than 100 years old - Great Expectations
👍12. More than 500 pages - The Woman They Could Not Silence
👍13. Mystery/ thriller - How Can I Help You
👍14. Number in the title - 11/22/63
👍15. On your TBR for at least 2 years - A Thousand Splendid Suns
16. One-word title - Emma
👍17. Published this year - The Women
👍18. Re-read - The Handmaid’s Tale
👍19. Recommendation from a GR user - The Last Lifeboat
👍20. Set in a city you want to visit - Rules of Civility
👍21. Set in the future - Brave New World
👍22. Source for film or TV show you liked - A Night to Remember
👍23. Supposed to read for school but didn’t - Jane Eyre
👍24. Translated from another language - Madame Bovary
👍25. YA novel - The Giver
This begins a group discussion of our Classics book selection, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.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 Modern book selection, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, nominated by Rebel.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
Lina wrote: "I second Don Quixote and nominate Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, (964 pages)"Lina, so sorry, but Anna Karenina is already on our bookshelf, so cannot be nominated here, but you can suggest it in the Catch-up topic. Any other book you'd like to suggest instead?
We kick off this year's relay with Lina's newest post:"Pony, I am glad you enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird - even though it wasnt what you were expecting :)
For your next read, I pick The Fellowship of the Ring, because going on a journey in Middlearth sounds like a good way to start off the new year!
(Happy New Year 2024 to everyone by the way!)
I am looking forward to hearing what you think (it has been a very long time since I read those books - I am looking forward to a reread at some point soon)
Whoever picks for me, please pick from my Want-To-Read-List here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Thanks! :)
Ready for a new read in 2024? Need to reduce your Want-To-Read Bookshelf too? This game is a fun way to choose your next great book. Let someone else do it for you! Here’s how to play:
1. Look at the latest message. Browse through their Want-To-Read list and select a book.
2. Reply to the message with your book choice, tell why you chose that book, and indicate you are ready for your new assignment too.
3. Check back for the next message, which should provide your book assignment.
4. Read the assigned book and repeat steps 1 to 4.
Remember, only post when you are ready for your next read. This game is a great way to find new books that you might enjoy, reduce your own TBRs, and make new GR friends too.
Ready, set, relay!
This begins our 2nd group reading of this catch-up book, nominated by Theresa. Here you can comment without spoilers on any aspects of the book either before, during or after reading it.
Tracking through message: 71⭐ Poll Candidate
Howl’s Moving Castle (329p) - 6
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (176p) - 5
The Boys in the Boat (404p) - 4
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (120p) - 1
⭐ The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (329p) - 8
Nothing to See Here (288p) - 4
The House of the Spirits (448p) - 6
⭐ The Things They Carried (246p) - 9
Maame (320p) - 1
The Hunger Games (374p) - 7
⭐ The Shadow of the Wind (487p) - 10
⭐ The Memory Police (276p) - 8
Milkman (352p) - 1
The Secret Life of Bees (302p)
White Teeth (448p) - 2
Inkheart (563p) - 2
The Seven Year Slip (352p) - 1
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for March 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 January 16.
Tracking through message: 56⭐ Poll Candidate
Foundation (244p) - 4
Heart of Darkness (188p) - 7
⭐ Things Fall Apart (215p) - 8
⭐ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (359p) - 9
⭐ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (154p) - 9
Gulliver’s Travels (306p) - 2
The Turn of the Screw (121p) - 5
⭐ Cannery Row (181p) - 9
⭐ Robinson Crusoe (320p) - 8
O Pioneers! (159p) - 3
The Pilgrim's Progress (324p) - 1
Madame Bovary (329p) - 3
Howards End (318p) - 2
I second Lonesome Dove.
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for March 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 January 16.
Tracking through message: 65⭐ Poll Candidate
To the Lighthouse (209p) - 3
⭐ Peter Pan (176p) - 13
The Master and Margarita (372p) - 6
⭐ Pachinko (496p) - 13
Gone Girl (415p) - 5
⭐ Little Women (449p) - 12
The Nightingale (440p) - 6
The Joy Luck Club (352p) - 5
⭐ The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 9
The Jungle Book (277p) - 7
A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 7
The Lightning Thief (377p) - 1
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
A Man Called Ove
The Sun Also Rises
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for March 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 featured 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 January 16.
