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Sep 30, 2021 09:22PM

189072 The Premonition A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
October 1
304 pages

Total Group Pages: 855,255
Sep 24, 2021 07:29PM

189072 October Books - 43 Points Final

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - 304 pages - Oct.1 - 2 points
The House in the Cerulean Sea - 394 pages - Oct.5 - 2 points
Something Wicked This Way Comes - 293 pages - Oct.8 - 2.5 points (BOTM)
Green Eggs and Ham - 64 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points
I Am Not Going to Get up Today! - 48 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points (Easy #1)
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - 64 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points
Conversations with Dogbert - 48 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points (Easy #2)
The Memory Tree - 32 pages - Oct.12 - .5 points (Easy #3)
Pirates Love Underpants - 32 pages - Oct.12 - .5 points (Easy #4)
Melvis And Elvis - 40 pages - Oct.13 - .5 points (Easy #5)
Dearly - 124 pages - Oct.14 - .5 points (Poems)
The Rat - 32 pages - Oct.14 - .5 points (Easy #6)
The Tell-Tale Heart - 31 pages - Oct.14 - 1 point (Easy #7)
The Masque of the Red Death - 76 pages - Oct.15 - 1 point
The Cask of Amontillado - 20 pages - Oct.15 - 1 point (Easy #8)
The Premature Burial - 32 pages - Oct.16 - 1 point (Easy #9)
The Pit and the Pendulum - 56 pages - Oct.16 - 1 point
The Raven - 64 pages - Oct.17 - .5 points (Poem)
The Fall of the House of Usher - 36 pages - Oct.20 - 1 point (Easy #10)
The Little Prince - 96 pages - Oct.19 - 1 point
Project Hail Mary - 476 pages - Oct.18 - 2 points
The Yellow Wallpaper - 63 pages - Oct.20 - 1 point
Frankenstein - 352 pages - Oct.27 - 2.5 points (BOTM)
Killer Chef - 144 pages - Oct.19 - 1 point
Is This Anything? - 480 pages - Oct.21 - 2 points
To the Lighthouse - 209 pages - Oct.25 - 1 point
The Story of the Bagman's Uncle... - 112 pages - Oct.22 - 1 point
To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt - 150 pages - Oct.23 - 1 point
Man-Size in Marble - 64 pages - Oct.23 - 1 point
The Canterville Ghost - 126 pages - Oct.24 - 1 point
The Haunted Dolls' House - 202 pages - Oct.22 - 1 point
The Thing on the Doorstep - 250 pages - Oct.24 - 2 points
From Beyond - 99 pages - Oct.25 - 1 point
Pickman's Model - 66 pages - Oct.26 - 1 point
The Time Machine - 118 pages - Oct.30 - 1 point
Of Mice and Men - 103 pages - Oct.29 - 1 point
Solaris - 204 pages - Oct.28 - 1 point
Earthman, Come Home - 256 pages - Oct.28 - 2 points
The Pearl - 96 pages - Oct.31 - 1 point
Sep 18, 2021 11:15AM

189072 I'd like to join SPRING, my favorite season.
Sep 17, 2021 12:40PM

189072 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Sept 16
331 pages

Total Group Pages: 812,890
189072 Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...
Sep 17, 2021 10:15AM

189072 Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...
Sep 17, 2021 10:14AM

189072 Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...
Sep 07, 2021 10:02PM

189072 I'm just about to start reading this classic. I expect to be disturbed by the content, but maybe there's some empathy and understanding to be gained as well. We'll see...
Sep 07, 2021 09:10PM

189072 What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Sept 7
444 pages

Total Group Pages: 775,411
Sep 06, 2021 09:52AM

189072 I second Slaughterhouse-Five.
189072 I second The Things They Carried.
189072 I nominate American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, 459 pages.
Sep 02, 2021 02:58PM

189072 I nominate All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages (1929)
Sep 01, 2021 10:47PM

189072 Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Catch-Up selection. This month we will be reading Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?
Sep 01, 2021 10:40PM

189072 Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Classics selection. This month we will be reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?
Sep 01, 2021 10:34PM

189072 Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Modern/Popular selection. This month we will be reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?
189072 Melanie :) wrote: "The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood"

Hi Melanie: This book has already been read by the group, 3 times now. But you can nominate it in the Catch-Up thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sep 01, 2021 06:04PM

189072 OK, I'll kick it off. How about A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (372 pages).
Sep 01, 2021 04:10PM

189072 Manisha wrote: "It's in my TBR too.. When in September will this read start? I mean in the beginning of the month or later?"

Anytime this month.
Sep 01, 2021 09:38AM

189072 Tracking through message: 58
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Man's Search for Meaning (165p) - 6
The Turn of the Screw (121p) - 7
All Quiet on the Western Front (296p) - 11
Persuasion (249p) - 5
Up the Down Staircase (368p) - 1
The Scarlet Letter (279p) - 8
Steppenwolf (256p) - 5
David Copperfield (882p) - 1
Inferno (490p) - 1
The Saga of Gösta Berling (399p) - 2
To the Lighthouse (209) - 1