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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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May 16
352 pages
Total Group Pages: 690,117
Tracking: through message 67Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Gone with the Wind (1037 p.) - 10
Great Expectations (483 p.) - 12
The Mill on the Floss (579 p.) - 1
Twelve Years a Slave (154 p.) - 3
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (518 p.) - 4
Wives and Daughters (679 p.)
The Brothers Karamazov (796 p.) - 5
Siddharta (153 p.) - 5
Cat's Cradle (306 p.) - 2
Night (120 p.) - 6
Les Liaisons dangereuses (448 p.) - 2
The Catcher in the Rye (277 p.) - 3
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (542 p.) - 2
The Call of the Wild (172 p.) - 9
Catch-22 (453 p.) - 9
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Hello everyone! It is time again for the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for July 2019! This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.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 to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight May 16.
Tracking: through message 64Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
The Shadow of the Wind (487 p.) - 8
Watership Down (478 p.) - 13
The Goldfinch (771 p.) - 6
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (371 p.) - 1
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (263 p.) - 7
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (479 p.) - 6
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (450 p.) - 2
A Gentleman in Moscow (496 p.) - 14
The Children's Book (675 p.)
The Sense of an Ending (163 p.) - 1
Atonement (351 p.) - 3
Interview with the Vampire (342 p.) - 2
Night Film (640 p.)
Cujo (432 p.)
Beartown (432 p.) - 2
The Poisonwood Bible (546 p.) - 4
The Da Vinci Code (489 p.) - 2
The Alienist (488 p.) - 1
The Bastard of Istanbul (368 p.) - 2
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Hello everyone! It is time again for the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for July 2019!This discussion is for the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category.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 Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.
3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight May 16.
Tracking: through message 61Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Jane Eyre (507 p.) - 8
Frankenstein (288 p.) - 13
And Then There Were None (264 p.) - 16
Memoirs of a Geisha (503 p.) - 3
The Joy Luck Club (288 p.) - 5
Dark Matter (342 p.) - 5
The Hate U Give (444 p.) - 3
The Nightingale (440 p.) - 2
One Hundred Years of Solitude (417 p.) - 9
A Man Called Ove (337 p.) - 1
All the Light We Cannot See (531 p.) - 1
American Gods (635 p.) - 4
To Kill a Mockingbird (324 p.) - 1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325 p.) - 2
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Remember, we can't nominate books we have reread as a group in the last twelve months, and those are:The Night Circus
The Handmaid's Tale
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for July 2019! This discussion is for the category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.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.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight May 16.
April 30
352 pages
Total Group Pages: 599,750
April 29
360 pages
Total Group Pages: 596,061
April 22
437 pages
Total Group Pages: 573,934
I think this topic belongs in the Solicitations folder so I moved it there.
April 11
414 pages
Total Group Pages: 532,166
✔ Total checked to this point!Today is the 101st day of 2019! I thought we could use an update.
Goal: 5,500 x 101 = 555,500 pages
Read: 530,939 pages
We are falling a little behind, but that is okay! Some months are going to be a little slower than others. We still have plenty of time to catch up!
I second:- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Watership Down
I second:- Siddharta
- The Three Musketeers
- Les Misérables
- The Master and Margarita
- The Grapes of Wrath
Diana wrote: "I was wondering if I could use The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle as a wildcard (if I need to). It's published in UK as The Seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (with the word), and i..."
Yes, the US version counts as a wildcard! I've seen both titles, but never knew what the difference was, how interesting. :)
