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This begins our 3rd 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.
I second The Housemaid.
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🌷The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (290p) - 10
The Housemaid (329p) - 5
🌷The Women (471p) - 7
The Personal Librarian (341p) - 3
A Little Life (720p) - 5
Rules of Civility (335p) - 5
🌷West With Giraffes (346p) - 7
White Noise (320p) - 5
🌷Tom Lake (309p) - 6
Wide Sargasso Sea (176p) - 5
All My Rage (376p) - 4
Bridget Jones’s Diary (288p) - 1
Sunrise on the Reaping (387p) - 3
Good Material (319p) - 1
The Berry Pickers (307p) - 2
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for Julye 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 May 16.
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Far From the Madding Crowd (480p) - 3
🌷The House of Mirth (351p) - 6
🌷Black Beauty (245p) - 7
🌷The Red Badge of Courage (149p) - 7
On the Road (307p) - 4
🌷Franny and Zooey (201p) - 6
North and South (521p) - 5
A Little Princess (242p) - 3
Eugene Onegin (240p) - 3
🌷White Nights (128p) - 6
🌷The Martian Chronicles (182p) - 12
The Giving Tree (64p) - 1
Ulysses (720p) - 3
The Blue Castle (218p) - 5
The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 3
The Gambler (188p) - 1
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 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 May 16.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (381p) - 1
The Grapes of Wrath (496p) - 3
Educated (352p) - 4
🌷20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (112p) - 6
🌷Little Fires Everywhere (338p) - 8
🌷Northanger Abbey (260p) - 7
The Outsiders (214p) - 5
Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 3
🌷Neverwhere (370p) - 6
The Stranger (123p) - 3
It Ends with Us (373p) - 1
The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 4
The Martian (384p) - 5
The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 2
The Handmaid's Tale (311p) - 1
🌷The Underground Railroad (320p) - 6
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 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 May 16
Elina wrote: "I nominate The House of the dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -247p"Elina, your book nomination doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings (see message 1). Is there another classic you would like to suggest?
I second Jungle Book.
This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, nominated by Sophie.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
This begins our 2nd group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by Adrienne.Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.
