BOTM Suggestions Apr '18 - Classics (1969 and before)

[Zeljka]

Second The Master and Margarita and Othello

[Quinty]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five and Brave New World

I would like to nominate The Hobbit

[Cheryl]

Seconding Othello.

[Jessica]

I second Flowers for Algernon

[Melanie]

I also second The Master and Margarita
and
Othello

[Debbie]

I’d like to nominate the scarlet pimpernel

[[deleted user]]

Adding a second to Othello

[lethe]

Seconding The Bell Jar.

[Hannah]

Second The Bell Jar

[Kathy]

I second Brave New World

[Jennifer]

I second A Wrinkle in Time.

[Kyra]

I will nominate Emma and Tender Is the Night. And I'll second The Three Musketeers and The Bell Jar.

[Sophie]

I second The Bell Jar

[Linda]

I will second Kim

[Audrė]

I would like to nominate Anna Karenina. And of course knowing the lenght of it, I would suggest it as a read for April-May. Would there be anyone interested?

[Shelley]

I'll second Slaughterhouse-Five, Night, and Flowers for Algernon.

[Kimberly]

I'll second The Grapes of Wrath, Anna Karenina, and Far from the Madding Crowd.

[Jamie]

I'll second Rebecca, The Three Musketeers, The Bell Jar and Night. So many great nominations already!

[NancyJ]

EDITED

I second the Kurt Vonegut book. Slaughterhouse-Five

[Dorothee]

I second
The Master and Margarita

[Melanie]

I also second The Master and Margarita

[Renee]

I will second Far From The Madding Crowd

[Marcos]

Hardest choice ever in the group, I think! I'd like to read or reread almost 20 books! And it's still the 6th!

Let's be reasonable, though. :-) I'll second

The Plague, by Albert Camus - French Literature
The Illiad, by Homer - Classical Greek Literature
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov - Russian Literature
Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen - written in English, but Danish Literature

And also

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Othello, by William Shakespeare
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Anne-Kathrin]

I second A Wizard of Earthseaand nominate Catch-22

[Steph]

I second Little Women (the Masterpiece adaptation will be airing here in April, I think, and it'd be great to read it beforehand!)

[MissLemon]

NancyJ wrote: "EDITED

I second Little Women. The PBS show starts here on May 13."

The group has already read Little Women - you could nominate on the catch up thread

[NancyJ]

Carolyn wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "EDITED

I second Little Women. The PBS show starts here on May 13."

The group has already read Little Women - you could nominate on the catch up thread"

Oops. I didn't even check. It was one of the first nominations and i didn't see a note about it.

[Ringo]

I second:

Mary Poppins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Wrinkle in Time

[Isti]

I´ll nominate Lolita
and second:
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
and
The Grapes of Wrath

[Linda]

I second Kim and Rebecca

[blue]

I second the Bell Jar
I second Anna Karenina

[Rachelnyc]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five
The Bell Jar and
A Wrinkle in Time

[Tori]

I second:
The Bell Jar
The Master and Margarita and
A Wrinkle in Time

[Mallaree]

I second:
Mary Poppins
Bell Jar

[Stephanie]

If anyone wanted a tally of the nominations and the number of seconds so far (Updated 3/3 - After message 122):

The Bell Jar 20
Slaughterhouse-Five 18
A Wrinkle in Time 12
Brave New World 11
The Wizard of Earthsea 11
The Master and Margarita 9
The Grapes of Wrath 7
The Iliad 7
Flowers for Algernon 7
Othello 6
The Three Musketeers 6
Night 4
Down and Out in Paris and London 4
The Left Hand of Darkness 4
Rebecca 4
Marry Poppins 3
A Study in Scarlet (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 3
The Thirty-Nine Steps 3
Anna Karenina 2
Far from the Madding Crowd 2
Kim 2
The Plague 2
Swann's Way 2
The Brothers Karamazov 2
Lolita 2
Catch-22 1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1
Out of Africa 1
The Black Tulip 1
The Hobbit 1
The Mysterious Island 1
Emma 0
Jacob's Room 0
Tender is the Night 0
The Bridge of San Luis Rey 0
The Count of Monte Cristo 0
The Scarlet Pimpernel 0
The Sun Also Rises 0
Their Eyes Were Watching God 0
Captains Courageous 0
The Island of Dr. Moreau 0

[Alyssa]

Second Slaughterhouse-Five and Flowers for Algernon

[Linda]

I second Mary Poppins and nominate Captains Courageous

[Kerri]

Stephanie wrote: "If anyone wanted a tally of the nominations and the number of seconds so far..."

Thank you for this, these threads can get a bit overwhelming sometimes. I will second:
Othello and
The Master and Margarita

There are so many great nominations! But I will stick to these two :)

And if anyone is ever interested in doing a buddy read of a play, I would most likely be in, depending on how my time management skills are playing out in the real world at the time!

[Quinn]

Alice's Adventures in wonderland!

[Marcos]

Hi, Quinn! "Alice" was the group read in February 2017.

Not eligible here, but you still can nominate it in the "Bookshelf Catchup" thread. :-)

This a tip for new members: Click on "Bookshelf" on the right hand top corner. You'll see all the previously read books.

It helps to have a look there before nominating!

[Sarah]

I'll second A Wizard of Earthsea and A Wrinkle in Time

[Tara]

I'll second:
The Bell Jar, Brave New World, and Rebecca

[Susan]

I second A Wrinkle in Time!!

[Susan]

Also second The Master and Margarita!

[Ella]

Piling onto seconds for
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Master and Margarita
Down and Out in Paris and London
Brave New World
Swann's Way

Can I ask, if we're going to read Sherlock Holmes, have this group already read the beginning A Study in Scarlet ?I'm weird and would rather start there than with book 3 (The Adventures of) -- my OCD that's all.

[Charley Girl]

I'll second The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Iliad

[Darren]

I second Brave new world and The Iliad

[Mariana]

I second Slaughterhouse V and A wrinkle in time, they've been hanging around my lists forever now.

[Melanie]

Ella wrote: "Can I ask, if we're going to read Sherlock Holmes, have this group already read the beginning A Study in Scarlet ?I'm weird and would rather start there than with book 3 (The Adventures of) -- my OCD that's all. "

You really do not have to read the Sherlock novels or stories in order. They don't build on each other in that way.

[Marcos]

Yes, it's true. But the nominated Sherlock is A Study in Scarlet! :-)