Nominations for March BOTM

[Kirstin, Moderator]

They say variety is the spice of life, so we are shaking things up. This month we will be discussing 2 books!

The moderators have chosen one, and we would like you to choose the other. This month we are looking for your favorite "classic" book to discuss and read.

Please nominate your favorite "Classic" in this post, and a poll will be up shortly for voting.

[Kirstin, Moderator]

There has been an email nomination for:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Persig

[Christoph]

Please define classic a bit more. Would any of those qualify? The Slap ShantaramThe Gift of Rain

[Robert]

How about Needful Things by Steven King. You got to love it.

[Kirstin, Moderator]

Christoph wrote: "Please define classic a bit more. Would any of those qualify? The Slap ShantaramThe Gift of Rain"

Hi Chirstoph,
For classics, we are looking for those books that have stood the test of time. The book should also have universal appeal, making a lasting impression on the reader. I know, still vague. ;)

We want those books you love, will read over and over again, that have been around for awhile.

[Geoffrey]

How about Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy?

[Christoph]

Kirstin wrote: "Christoph wrote: "Please define classic a bit more. Would any of those qualify? The Slap ShantaramThe Gift of Rain"

Hi Chirstoph,
For classics, we are l..."
Thanks Kirstin.
So time-wise: ten, fifteen, twenty years?

[Linda]

Great Expectations by Dickens

[Mary]

The Hunger Games

[Lilian]

This Shining Land by Barbara Ovstedal. A powerful novel of two Norwegians who risked everything to defend their land during WW2

[Claire]

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

[Ceri]

How about Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald, which actually left much more of an impression on me than The Great Gatsby ??

[Linda]

Of Human Bondage - Hemingway

[Billy]

"Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.

[Natalie]

@Kirstie: Can you please post a list of nominations and update it? Thanks in advance.

[Natalie]

I will nominate Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

[H.M.]

Natalie wrote: "I will nominate Little Women by Louisa May Alcott."

I second it!

[Endri]

I will nominate European Identity: The Death of National Era? Endri Shqerra MA

[Yvette]

1984 - Orwell

[Louise]

Could I nominate Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson?

[Louise]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

[Ricardo]

Karamazov brothers

[E.M.]

If we are going for classics this month, I vote White Fang by Jack London. It was and will always be my favorite classic. I could read it over and over!

[Michelle]

Pride and Prejudice

[Bexbooks]

war and Peace

[Lisa]

Claire wrote: "The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood"

This is on my TBR list as well. I've never read it. Someone suggested 1984, another book I've always been going to read and never have.

[Kyra]

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Karen]

TemptationBelongingForever

[Andrea]

Little Women

[Michelle]

I nominate A Little Princess.

[Maggi]

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen.

[Leiah]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. I first read it when I was quite young - the only books I had were my high school cousins, and I was a bit of a book fanatic even back then. It grabbed with me, and has stayed with me for the rest of my life.

[Timothy]

I would nominate A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, who won a (posthumous) Pulitzer prize. It is a book with really universal appeal, and which I treasure as a truly comedic masterpiece.

[Kirstin, Moderator]

Here are some emailed nomiantions:
Jane Eyre
Red Rising
monuments men

[Amanda]

The picture of Dorian Gray or Dracula. Those are two of my fav classics!

[Poongothai]

[Paddy]

Amanda wrote: "The picture of Dorian Gray or Dracula. Those are two of my fav classics!"



I agree with you with Bram Stokers Dracula. My favorite book and must be one of the best selling books of all time helping pave the way for the whole genre as it is today.

[Boyko]

Linda wrote: "Great Expectations by Dickens"

Yes, The Hunger Games too.

[Lola]

How about Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll? This could especially fun paired with one of myriad updated versions like Alice in Zombieland

[Adrienne]

I would be happy with anything by one of the Brontes so I nominate Wuthering Heights.

[Thomas]

I'll nominate Catch 22, by Joseph Heller.

[Lilian]

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway.

[Annella]

Kirstin wrote: "They say variety is the spice of life, so we are shaking things up. This month we will be discussing 2 books!

The moderators have chosen one, and we would like you to choose the other. This month ..."

Hi, I don't know how to post a reply. How about anything by Jane Austen? or Hemingway?

[Annella]

Yipes! is this how I reply?

How about anything by Jane Austen or E. Hemingway? At our house, we are reading all of Austen. Yes, again. And about to go through the Hemingway list.

[Chris]

I nominate Night by Elie Weisel or My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

[Fay]

I second (or third) both 1984 by George Orwell, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not because I have read them before, but because they are on my to-read list, and this will give me extra reason to finally read them.

[Mirella]

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: one of my favourite and most beloved classics :)

[Kirstin, Moderator]

Thank you for all the wonderful nominations, I will put the poll together tonight for the books.

Nomination thread ended

[Robert]

How about- Needful Things by Steven King, it is so very good!

[Kirstin, Moderator]

Wow! Those were some great choices. Next time I will have to put a cap on them ;) The poll is now available.