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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 June 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 April 16
Tracking through message: 53⭐ Poll Candidate
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 5
The Invisible Man (192p) - 3
Ready Player One (374p) - 4
⭐Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 9
⭐The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 6
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 3
⭐Never Let Me Go (288p) - 6
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (216p) - 5
The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 4
⭐A Man Called Ove (337p) - 6
⭐The Vanishing Half (343p) - 6
Peter Pan (176p) - 1
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 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 April 16.
So sorry, for the late update!The theme for April - June will be books set in the past.
It could be set in 2022 or 1822 Just as long as it is not set in the future or the present!
Happy Reading!
I was sorry I missed Middlemarch, but I am joining this one! Just found a copy today! I still have to finish up the book I am currently reading, but I should be able to start this week!
Tracking through message: 44⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Tess of the D’Urbervilles (518p) - 8
⭐Howards End (318p) - 8
⭐The Island of Dr. Moreau (139p) - 11
Cry, the Beloved Country (316p) - 1
Cat's Cradle (179p) - 2
A Canticle for Leibowitz (334p) - 3
⭐Treasure Island (311p) - 10
I, Claudius (468p)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (240p) - 3
The Trial (255p) - 6
Cannery Row (181p) - 4
The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 2
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (576p) - 2
Things Fall Apart (209p) - 7
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 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 February 16.
Tracking through message: 46⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (290p) - 9
The God of Small Things (321p) - 3
The House of the Spirits (448p) - 4
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (496p) - 4
Conversations with Friends (300p) - 2
⭐Oryx and Crake (389p) - 5
⭐The Lovely Bones (372p) - 5
Tuesdays with Morrie (210p) - 4
American Dirt (449p) - 1
⭐Harlem Shuffle (318p) - 6
⭐Crying in H Mart (242p) - 5
The Love Hypothesis (356p) - 1
Project Hail Mary (476p) - 3
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (163p) - 2
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 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 February 16.
Tracking through message: 47⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Thursday Murder Club (381p) - 9
⭐The Perks of Being a Wallflower (213p) - 9
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (142p) - 5
⭐The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 8
A Wrinkle in Time (211p) - 4
Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 4
Rebecca (449p) - 4
The Midnight Library (304p) - 3
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325p) - 3
Les Misérables (1463p)
Peter Pan (176p) - 3
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 3
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated: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
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 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 February 16.
Adriana wrote: "Tori wrote: "The First theme of 2023 is The Highest rated books on your TBR. Tip - If you go to your "Want to Read" list here on Goodreads and click avg ratings at the top, it will automatically ..."
No, one of my highest rated ones has hardly any reviews too. If you want to exclude it you can, what matters is that you read a book from your TBR!
The much-awaited results are in!December's Round Robin scores are as follows:
Clubs 21.61 vs. Spades 20.66
Hearts 32.03 vs. Diamonds 24.30
♣️Congratulations Clubs and Hearts!♥️
And The Final Results for the overall EHRTBM House Cup Challenge 2022 are:
1. ♥️ Hearts 84.93
2. ♠️ Spades 58.53
3. ♦️ Diamonds 58.20
4. ♣️ Clubs 56.83
♥️♥️♥️Hearts are the Winners!♥️♥️♥️
Way to go everyone who participated this year! I hope you had fun and will join us again next year! Thank you for all the volunteers, this challenge isn't possible without all your hard work!
Hey everyone I will get the final scores up later tonight. My grandpa passed away earlier this week and I've been spending most my time with family since then.
January 1 - March 310/5
1. The Grand Gypsy: A Memoir
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died
3. The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
5. The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
April 1 - June 31
2/5
1. The Sun Also Rises
4. Stonewall
5. Into the Wild
July 1st - September 30th
0/5
1. Blacksad
2. The Long Walk
3. Father and I Were Ranchers
4.
5.
October 1st - December 31st
1/5
1. LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
2. The Marijuana Chronicles
4. Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America
5. Armada
0/251) A book beloved by a friend
2) Because of the cover
3) A book you can finish in a day
4) Longer than 500 pages
5) A book by an author from another country
6) Cookbook
7) A book in another language
8) How-to book Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
9) Essay collection
10) A re-read Maybe a Fox
11) A book about books or reading
12) An award winner
13) A book you previously abandonded
14) Published before you were born
15) Guilty pleasure read
16) Banned book
17) Genre you rarely read
18) Favorite topic or theme
19) Favorite author
20) About parents and children
21) Set in space
22) Nostalgic memoir
23) Title longer than 6 words
24) A character that has your name Solitaire
25) Less than 150 pages
