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

[Kaseadillla]

Hello all! Starting up the monthly discussions for April 2018 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.

As a reminder, books that qualify for this category must have a publication date 1969 and before. If the book you wish to nominate was published in 1970 or after, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classics/Popular Reads thread.

Will start off by suggesting Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

[Emily]

I'd like to nominate Little Women and Night

[Darren]

I second Slaughterhouse-five and nominate The thirty-nine steps.

[Chrissy]

Second Slaughterhouse-Five!

Nominate Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Plague by Albert Camus

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Second Brave New World
and nominate The Grapes of Wrath

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Second
Slaughterhouse-Five

And nominating
Frankenstein

[Sophie]

I'd like to nominate Rebecca

[Sarah]

Second Brave New World

[Jacqueline]

I'd like to Nominate
Ursula Le Guin
The Wizard of Earthsea (because...you know...it's the start of a series)
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed

I'll second Slaughterhouse 5.

[Lea]

I nominate Flowers for Algernon (1959)
and second Slaughterhouse-Five
and The Grapes of Wrath.

[Emily]

I'll second Left Hand of Darkness

[Melanie]

I will second The Illiad.
and
The Wizard of Earth Sea.

[Melanie]

Daniela wrote: "Second
Slaughterhouse-Five

And nominating
Frankenstein"

We already read Frankenstein. You can nominate it in the catch up thread.

[Melanie]

I will nominate The Three Musketeers. It has to win eventually.

[Kaseadillla]

I second brave new world

[Zeljka]

I nominate The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky

[Innastholiel]

I second The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea. The Dispossessed was published in 1974 and therefore technically belongs in the other thread.

I nominate Mary Poppins and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[Jacqueline]

My bad....follow me over there and you can second it over there.....

[Hannah]

So many I want to read have already been suggested so I'm not going to make any nominations but will second The Three Musketeers, The Brothers Karamazov, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Plague and Left Hand of Darkness

[Melanie]

I also want to nominate Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

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I second Slaughterhouse-Five and nominate The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.

[Laura H L]

I nominate The Bell Jar

I second Flowers for Algernon

[Sarah]

Second The Bell Jar

[Stephanie]

I second A Wizard of Earthsea and Slaughterhouse-Five

[Alex]

I second The Illiad and nominate Far from the Madding Crowd.

[Dora]

I second Brave New World

I nominate The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

[Martina]

I second The Bell Jar and Night because it looks like it is going to loose :(

And I nominate A Wrinkle in Time it has to win one day the pool if I keep on nominating it right? :D

[Daisy]

I second The Grapes of Wrath.

[Jen]

I'll second the Illiad and A Wrinkle in Time.

[Amanda]

I second:
Night
The Grapes of Wrath and
The Bell Jar

I nominate Catch-22

[Sarah]

Second A Wrinkle in Time

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Melanie wrote: "Daniela wrote: "Second
Slaughterhouse-Five

And nominating
Frankenstein"

We already read Frankenstein. You can nominate it in the catch up thread."

Whaaaat?! I swear, I had actually gone into the bookshelf to see what books had already been read and just DID NOT see it. It might have been because, when I went to the bookshelf again right now, I saw it had another name attached. I had no idea it was one of those 'or' books, and maybe my eyes simply skimmed over it.
Thank you!

[Marcos]

Really great nominations so far! I'm always enthusisastic about how good you guys are!

But... Except for five nominations (The Illiad, The Plague, The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, The Brothers Karamazov, all the others are .. English language works! :-) Again, that predominace we've been discussing. Well, we know it's expected.

I'll second a lot of books this time, I think, but I'll also suggest a reading from another literature, just for balance. :-)

[Marcos]

Because of the film "Call Me by Your Name" being in evidence, the author of the original book, André Aciman, has been as well. André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature.

And I recently watched an inteview with him on Brazilian TV. I not only liked him very much and was attracted by his work, but learned that he has also written many essays and reviews on, and teaches, Marcel Proust.

What by its turn ignited an old wish of mine to read Proust, which I haven't so far. Aciman said very interesting, clever and nice things of Proust, like readers saying as they read, "It's not Proust, it's me!".

From Goodreads: "Today Proust is widely recognised as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.". And for Aciman, "the greatest".

So, I nominate the first book of his great work In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven volumes, (1913–1927).

This first volume is Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann, sometimes translated as The Way by Swann's) (1913).

[Marcos]

Not to mention that a work titled "In Search of Lost Time" is mostly fit for a catch-up book club!! ;-)

[Carolyn]

I'd like to nominate The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas!

[Zeljka]

I second Swann's Way by Proust.

I nominate The Bridge of San Luis gaRey by Wilder and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N. Hurston

[Kristin]

Second a wrinkle in time

[Sylvia]

I second The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath.
I also nominate The Sun Also Rises, by Earnest Hemmingway!

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Marcos wrote: "Really great nominations so far! I'm always enthusisastic about how good you guys are!

But... Except for four nominations (The Illiad, The Plague, The Three Musk..."</i>


[book:The Black Tulip is also non-English language :p

I don't really mind reading English language literature in this group, though, because for the most part of my life I have read only small portion of it and now I am trying to catch up with as many "everyone has read this" books written in English as I can.

[Holly]

I second Flowers for Algernon!
I also nominate The Count of Monte Cristo

(I'm also new here; I see epics, but are plays acceptible? Can I get some Othello action?)

[Monique]

Second Down and Out in Paris and London and A Wizard of Earthsea

[Dorothee]

I second
Down and out in Paris and London
Grapes of Wrath
A Wrinkle in time

[Renee]

I will second the black tulip

[Sarah]

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

[MissLemon]

Challenge accepted Marcos!

I nominate The Master and Margarita

[MissLemon]

Holly wrote: "I second Flowers for Algernon!
I also nominate The Count of Monte Cristo

(I'm also new here; I see epics, but are plays acceptible? Can I get some Othello action?)"

The group has read Romeo and Juliet so I'm guessing Othello is also eligible. I would second it but I've read it SOOO many times!

[Marcos]

Anahit wrote: "The Black Tulip is also non-English language :p"

Anahit, I missed this one, but I'll edit my post to include it!! :-)
Nothing against books in English, of course! Just a suggestion for variety.

Carolyn wrote: "Challenge accepted Marcos! I nominate The Master and Margarita."

Great nomination, Carolyn! :-)

[Marcos]

Holly wrote: "(I'm also new here; I see epics, but are plays acceptible? Can I get some Othello action?)"

Yes, no limitation. Many other suggestions have been made in Drama.

[Marcos]

However, plays and classical literature (Greek, Roman, etc.) tend to be not as popular as other genres, so rarely are much seconded and voted.

That's a pity, but that's the way it is.

We've tried the Odissey sometimes, and also the Illiad, which I'll second, but the probability of it winning is low.