Renata’s
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Renata’s
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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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I second Sleepy Hollow.
I second Talk About Kevin and Weyward.
I second Time Traveller's Wife.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
I second My Brilliant Friend.
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?
