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created Jan 15, 2025 04:15AM PST poll #1 Featured
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What Prevents You From Reading?

Yes it is all Anisha's fault lol !!

Work
 
  90 votes, 22.2%

Just Life
 
  68 votes, 16.7%

My Mood/Not Feeling Well
 
  65 votes, 16.0%

School
 
  62 votes, 15.3%

Social Media (surfing)
 
  62 votes, 15.3%

Interruptions
 
  29 votes, 7.1%

Just Being Lazy
 
  20 votes, 4.9%

Movie/Tv
 
  10 votes, 2.5%


created Nov 08, 2023 01:35PM PST poll #2 Featured
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2024: What Frontier, Western, Adventure Classic (FWC) would you like to read next year? We read one a quarter. The top 4 will be chosen.

 
  42 votes 29.2%

 
  24 votes 16.7%

 
  20 votes 13.9%

 
  18 votes 12.5%

 
  12 votes 8.3%

 
  11 votes 7.6%

 
  9 votes 6.3%

 
  8 votes 5.6%

144 total votes

created Oct 01, 2021 09:10AM PDT poll #3 Featured
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2022 Suggestions for Authors given from a thread in NTLTRC,
Top 7 Authors will be chosen for further discussion. Yes, you only get one choice!

NTLTRC is a group that reads Classic Authors whose work is 50 years and older for this category. (1972 and older)

 
  5 votes, 13.9%

 
  4 votes, 11.1%

 
  4 votes, 11.1%

 
  3 votes, 8.3%

 
  3 votes, 8.3%

 
  3 votes, 8.3%

 
  3 votes, 8.3%

 
  2 votes, 5.6%

 
  2 votes, 5.6%

 
  2 votes, 5.6%

 
  1 vote, 2.8%

 
  1 vote, 2.8%

 
  1 vote, 2.8%

 
  1 vote, 2.8%

 
  1 vote, 2.8%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%


created Sep 02, 2021 12:51PM PDT poll #4 Featured
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What is your favorite Genre of Classics?
Ties in with Author reads for 2022. See thread after making your choice here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Historical/Romance
 
  34 votes, 19.4%

Family Saga
 
  33 votes, 18.9%

Mystery
 
  30 votes, 17.1%

Romance
 
  21 votes, 12.0%

Action/Adventure
 
  15 votes, 8.6%

Thriller
 
  13 votes, 7.4%

Spy/Detective
 
  8 votes, 4.6%

Comedy
 
  8 votes, 4.6%

Biography
 
  7 votes, 4.0%

Nautical/Sea
 
  6 votes, 3.4%

Western/Frontier
 
  0 votes, 0.0%


created Nov 11, 2020 10:16AM PST poll #5 Featured
NTLTRC: Christmas holiday short story titles for December.

The top voted title is expected to be the first short story read for the group and happen December 2020, next month! The second top voted title is expected to be coupled with the already scheduled short story title for December 2021.

 
  30 votes 35.3%

 
  16 votes 18.8%

 
  14 votes 16.5%

 
  10 votes 11.8%

 
  9 votes 10.6%

 
  6 votes 7.1%

85 total votes

created Oct 24, 2020 04:05PM PDT poll #6 Featured
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2021 Order of the Author Reads (Jan thru Dec).
18 total. First 12 will be one a month the last 6 will be every other month.
The rest of the Authors will not make it.

Discussion or the Wish List:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

 
  18 votes, 18.2%

 
  10 votes, 10.1%

 
  9 votes, 9.1%

 
  9 votes, 9.1%

 
  6 votes, 6.1%

 
  6 votes, 6.1%

 
  4 votes, 4.0%

 
  4 votes, 4.0%

 
  4 votes, 4.0%

 
  4 votes, 4.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%


created Oct 24, 2020 04:18PM PDT poll #7 Featured
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2021 Order of Hefty/Husky Reads
8 reads total. 2 will be offered a quarter
First 4 books-= the first book offered : 1st thru 4th quarter
Last 4 books = the second book offered : 1st thru 4th quarter

Here is the discussion thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Count of Monte Cristo
 
  25 votes, 28.1%

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
 
  12 votes, 13.5%

Shirley
 
  12 votes, 13.5%

The Decameron
 
  11 votes, 12.4%

Angle of Repose
 
  10 votes, 11.2%

The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
 
  7 votes, 7.9%

Life and Fate
 
  6 votes, 6.7%

Northwest Passage
 
  6 votes, 6.7%


created Oct 12, 2019 04:39AM PDT poll #8 Featured
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Poll for November Theme Read: Effects of Redrawn Borders
(October 12 through October 27)

Train to Pakistan
 
  6 votes, 54.5%

The Radetzky March
 
  3 votes, 27.3%

Khirbet Khizeh
 
  1 vote, 9.1%

Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
 
  1 vote, 9.1%


created Sep 07, 2019 05:26AM PDT poll #9 Featured
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Theme Read Poll:
Please look into your choices before making a decision and PLEASE plan on participating in October when thread is posted. Thank you!

Giants in the Earth
 
  14 votes, 51.9%

The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1)
 
  13 votes, 48.1%


created May 22, 2019 05:24AM PDT poll #10 Featured
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Historical Adventure POLL.
Theme Read for June is between The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn OR The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. You choose which Classic you would want to read with the Group.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
  41 votes, 59.4%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 
  28 votes, 40.6%


created Feb 08, 2019 10:27AM PST poll #11 Featured
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What is your Favorite Classic of all time from NTLTRC Checklist? See link...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I am working on an idea for the group and would like your thoughts. Write-In's welcomed. Poll is for two weeks.

Jane Eyre (write-in)
 
  28 votes, 16.3%

Wuthering Heights (write-in)
 
  15 votes, 8.7%

Les Misérables (write-in)
 
  14 votes, 8.1%

Brave New World (write-in)
 
  11 votes, 6.4%

Crime and Punishment (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 5.8%

Anna Karenina (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 5.8%

Pride and Prejudice
 
  10 votes, 5.8%

Rebecca
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

Little Women (write-in)
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

The Master and Margarita
 
  8 votes, 4.7%

The Brothers Karamazov (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 4.1%

Emma (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 3.5%

Persuasion (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

The Count of Monte Cristo (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

Lonesome Dove (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

Don Quixote (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

Wives and Daughters (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

One Hundred Years of Solitude (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
 
  2 votes, 1.2%

Their Eyes Were Watching God
 
  2 votes, 1.2%

War and Peace (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.2%

In Cold Blood (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.2%

The Phantom of the Opera
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.6%


created Jan 11, 2019 09:03AM PST poll #12 Featured
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What Theme Read for 'Rebel in Literature' would you like to read for the Month of February 2019?

ONLY a ONE WEEK Poll!!!!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 
  52 votes, 34.2%

The Scarlet Letter
 
  37 votes, 24.3%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 
  32 votes, 21.1%

Little Women
 
  31 votes, 20.4%


created Oct 28, 2018 01:12PM PDT poll #13 Featured
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November's Author is Zora Neale Hurston
Please, look into the choices and choose a work you would like to read and discuss with the group.

Dust Tracks on a Road
 
  15 votes, 46.9%

Moses, Man of the Mountain
 
  7 votes, 21.9%

Seraph on the Suwanee
 
  4 votes, 12.5%

The Gilded Six-Bits
 
  3 votes, 9.4%

Jonah's Gourd Vine
 
  3 votes, 9.4%


created Sep 10, 2018 06:52AM PDT poll #14 Featured
Which play by William Shakespeare would you like to read with the group?


 
  21 votes, 32.3%

 
  11 votes, 16.9%

 
  10 votes, 15.4%

 
  8 votes, 12.3%

 
  8 votes, 12.3%

 
  4 votes, 6.2%

 
  3 votes, 4.6%


created Jul 08, 2018 07:30AM PDT poll #15 Featured
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Inspired by True Events (otherwise known as Historical Fiction) Please look into the Classics to decide what you would like to read with the Group for the Month of August.

The Quiet American
 
  25 votes, 23.4%

It Can't Happen Here
 
  22 votes, 20.6%

The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2)
 
  16 votes, 15.0%

The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
 
  15 votes, 14.0%

The Man Without Qualities
 
  13 votes, 12.1%

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
 
  10 votes, 9.3%

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
 
  6 votes, 5.6%


created Jun 06, 2018 06:05AM PDT poll #16 Featured
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July's Author is Willem Elsschot (Belgian): You may need to take the time to look into the Novels to make an appropriate decision. Please choose a book you would like the Group to Read and Discuss.

Kaas
 
  8 votes, 53.3%

Villa des Roses
 
  6 votes, 40.0%

Het dwaallicht
 
  1 vote, 6.7%

De verlossing
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lijmen
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Tsjip - De Leeuwentemmer
 
  0 votes, 0.0%


created May 20, 2018 03:30PM PDT poll #17 Featured
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Charlotte Brontë a notable figure of Victorian literature.
Which novel would you like to read with the Group in June?

Villette
 
  22 votes, 33.8%

Shirley
 
  19 votes, 29.2%

The Professor
 
  15 votes, 23.1%

The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense
 
  9 votes, 13.8%


created Apr 08, 2018 06:37AM PDT poll #18 Featured
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Epic Poetry: For this Poll your vote will help decide the order of the reads. We will choose from the first 10 in year written order for this Poll.

Please only vote if you sincerely will be reading these works. Would not be fair to the other Members who love the Epic Works of Poetry.

The Iliad
 
  17 votes, 23.6%

Metamorphoses
 
  13 votes, 18.1%

The Odyssey
 
  12 votes, 16.7%

Beowulf
 
  9 votes, 12.5%

The Epic of Gilgamesh
 
  6 votes, 8.3%

The Aeneid
 
  6 votes, 8.3%

Mahabharata
 
  4 votes, 5.6%

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
 
  3 votes, 4.2%

The Nibelungenlied
 
  1 vote, 1.4%

The Song of Roland
 
  1 vote, 1.4%


created Apr 08, 2018 06:16AM PDT poll #19 Featured
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May's Author is Pearl S. Buck, please choose one of her works you would like to read with the group.
She won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: The Good Earth (1932) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938)

The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
 
  19 votes, 54.3%

East Wind: West Wind
 
  9 votes, 25.7%

Imperial Woman
 
  4 votes, 11.4%

Peony
 
  3 votes, 8.6%


created Mar 01, 2018 04:51PM PST poll #20 Featured
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Here is a variety of Shakespeare plays, two tragedies, three comedies and one history for the Author of the Month for April.

Much Ado About Nothing
 
  42 votes, 31.3%

Othello
 
  26 votes, 19.4%

King Lear
 
  25 votes, 18.7%

As You Like It
 
  15 votes, 11.2%

Richard III
 
  14 votes, 10.4%

The Temptest (Volume 9 of Works)
 
  12 votes, 9.0%


created Feb 10, 2018 04:24AM PST poll #21 Featured
Our Theme Read for March is an Irish Author.
Do you have a favorite you would like to focus on in March? Here are 5 to choose from:

 
  76 votes, 54.3%

 
  29 votes, 20.7%

 
  13 votes, 9.3%

 
  12 votes, 8.6%

 
  10 votes, 7.1%


created Feb 04, 2018 05:59AM PST poll #22 Featured
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The Hefty Classics:
What Classic over 800 pages would you like to attempt over a span of 3 months. The top 4 will make it to the Planning Site.

The Poll required two books to open it. Does not mean that these two choices have to be considered. Please Write-In your choice. Thank you!

War and Peace
 
  29 votes, 16.5%

Middlemarch (write-in)
 
  19 votes, 10.8%

Les Misérables (write-in)
 
  16 votes, 9.1%

The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
 
  16 votes, 9.1%

Gone with the Wind (write-in)
 
  15 votes, 8.5%

Don Quixote
 
  10 votes, 5.7%

The Count of Monte Cristo (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 5.7%

The Divine Comedy (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 5.7%

The Brothers Karamazov (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 5.7%

Dune: The Gateway Collection (Dune Chronicles #1-6)
 
  8 votes, 4.5%

Crime and Punishment (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 4.5%

David Copperfield (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 4.0%

Bleak House (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 3.4%

Vanity Fair
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

Atlas Shrugged (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - Photo Guide
 
  2 votes, 1.1%

Dombey and Son (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.1%


created Jan 09, 2018 03:33PM PST poll #23 Featured
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For our February read we have chosen a
Fantasy Theme with suggested Author J.R.R. Tolkien. Which of his Classic Novels would you like to read and discuss?

The Hobbit
 
  60 votes, 38.0%

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
 
  47 votes, 29.7%

Tales from the Perilous Realm
 
  25 votes, 15.8%

The Silmarillion (Middle-Earth Universe)
 
  20 votes, 12.7%

The Tolkien Reader
 
  6 votes, 3.8%


created Dec 09, 2017 12:31PM PST poll #24 Featured
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Author of the Month Emily and Anne Bronte and one work by the Brother Patrick Branwell Bronte

Choose which one or maybe two we will read for the month of January.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 
  38 votes, 49.4%

Agnes Grey
 
  23 votes, 29.9%

Poems of Solitude
 
  8 votes, 10.4%

Poems: by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
 
  4 votes, 5.2%

Lettere
 
  2 votes, 2.6%

Brother in the Shadow
 
  2 votes, 2.6%


created Nov 12, 2017 11:43AM PST poll #25 Featured
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Classic read for December.
Author is Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book
 
  32 votes, 36.0%

The Man Who Would Be King
 
  21 votes, 23.6%

Kim
 
  13 votes, 14.6%

Captains Courageous
 
  12 votes, 13.5%

Puck of Pook's Hill
 
  6 votes, 6.7%

Just So Stories
 
  5 votes, 5.6%


created Oct 19, 2017 05:35PM PDT poll #26 Featured
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November Author: Marcel Proust

Please choose a Classic you would enjoy reading and commenting on with the Group.

Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
 
  40 votes, 53.3%

Pleasures and Days
 
  12 votes, 16.0%

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
 
  11 votes, 14.7%

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
 
  7 votes, 9.3%

Combray (In Search of Lost Time, #1.1)
 
  5 votes, 6.7%


created Sep 15, 2017 04:24PM PDT poll #27 Featured
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October Author: John Steinbeck
Please choose a novel you would like to read with the group.

East of Eden
 
  60 votes, 50.8%

Cannery Row
 
  20 votes, 16.9%

Tortilla Flat
 
  16 votes, 13.6%

Travels with Charley: In Search of America
 
  14 votes, 11.9%

The Wayward Bus
 
  8 votes, 6.8%


created Aug 15, 2017 04:53PM PDT poll #28 Featured
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Author of the Month is Jane Austen
Please choose the Novel you would like to read as a Group.

Pride and Prejudice
 
  56 votes, 37.6%

Persuasion
 
  53 votes, 35.6%

Mansfield Park
 
  19 votes, 12.8%

Lady Susan
 
  13 votes, 8.7%

Sandition
 
  8 votes, 5.4%


created Jul 23, 2017 10:02AM PDT poll #29 Featured
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Poll

What Classic Author of NOVELS would you like to explore and discuss about? Write-In's are welcome. We will limit it to the first 12 Authors in placement.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (write-in)
 
  22 votes, 17.1%

Jane Austen (write-in)
 
  18 votes, 14.0%

John Steinbeck (write-in)
 
  16 votes, 12.4%

 
  14 votes, 10.9%

Charles Dickens (write-in)
 
  12 votes, 9.3%

Emily and Anne Bronte (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 7.8%

 
  9 votes, 7.0%

 
  6 votes, 4.7%

 
  5 votes, 3.9%

 
  5 votes, 3.9%

Charlotte Brontë (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 2.3%

Willem Elsschot (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.6%

Gottfried Keller (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

Thomas Hardy (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 1.6%

Danilo Kiš
 
  1 vote, 0.8%


created Jul 16, 2017 08:17AM PDT poll #30 Featured
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What would you like to see more focus on for Group Reads?

Follow a set list of books to read
 
  45 votes, 35.2%

Just having Options available
 
  30 votes, 23.4%

Diversity in Novels
 
  29 votes, 22.7%

Diversity in Authors
 
  24 votes, 18.8%


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