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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 2023 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 June 16.
Tracking through message: 34⭐ Poll Candidate
The Phantom of the Opera (360p)
Life of Pi (460p) - 1
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 2
⭐The Thursday Murder Club (382p) - 7
⭐The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 7
⭐The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 8
Brave New World (268p) - 3
The Shining (659p)
⭐Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 4
The Time Traveler's Wife (537p)
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:Slaughterhouse-Five
A Man Called Ove
The Sun Also Rises
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wuthering Heights
Murder on the Orient Express
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Bell Jar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Clockwork Orange
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 2023 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 June 16.
Tracking through message: 43⭐ Poll Candidate
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (359p) - 3
Speak (224p) - 2
The Girl on the Train (336p) - 2
⭐Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (359p) - 8
His Majesty's Dragon (364p) - 2
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (243p) - 4
⭐I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (327p) - 7
⭐Beartown (432p) - 6
The Love Hypothesis (383p) - 2
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (368p)
White Oleander (446p) - 1
In the Time of the Butterflies (337p) - 2
Timeline (489p) - 1
⭐The House of the Spirits (448p) - 5
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 2023 in the MODERN CLASSIC/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 June 16.
I second The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Jungle.
I second The Martian and East of Eden.
I second Beartown
Rachel wrote: "I just realized my nomination The Talented Mr. Ripley was published prior to 1970. Sorry about that. Do I need to delete it?"Thanks Rachel,
I'll move it over to the Classics thread!
I second The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Hi Roevardotter,If you are not finding 5 books that fit the prompt you can bend the rules a little (like you said, counting a fantasy as middle age) I would say if there is no specific time mentioned it takes place in the present, but do what works for you. This challenge is very relaxed!
Tracking through message: 44⭐ Poll Candidate
⭐Things Fall Apart (209p) - 8
⭐Little House on the Prairie (335p) - 6
The Collector (283p) - 1
A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 3
Daddy-Long-Legs (249p) - 3
⭐The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (327p) - 3
⭐A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (329p) - 6
⭐The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 9
The Talented Mr. Ripley (288p) - 4
⭐The Island of Dr. Moreau (160p) - 7
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2023 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: 52⭐ Poll Candidate
Know My Name (384p) - 2
Beach Read (358p) - 2
White Noise (310p) - 3
The Four Agreements (152p) - 2
Empire Falls (483p) - 3
The Giver (225p) - 5
The Alice Network (503p) - 1
⭐The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (226p) - 10
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (312p) - 3
⭐Middlesex (529p) - 10
⭐The Lathe of Heaven (176p) - 6
The Thorn Birds (692p) - 1
⭐The Ocean at the End of the Lane (181p) - 6
