BOTM Suggestions May '18 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Kaseadillla]

Hello all! Starting up the monthly discussions for May 2018 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for a brand new category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.

This is a catch-up book club, after all. 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.

The following books are NOT eligible as we have reread them as a group within the last twelve months:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I'll start off by suggesting a group read that I personally missed - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

[Rachelnyc]

I nominate A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman.

[Stephanie]

If anyone wanted a tally of the nominations and the number of seconds so far (Update 3/28 After message 46):

A Man Called Ove - 10 seconds
Neverwhere - 8 seconds
One Hundred Years of Solitude - 7 seconds
The Sun Also Rises - 6 seconds
A Tale of Two Cities - 5 seconds
Dune - 5 seconds
1984 - 3 seconds
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 2 second
Gone with the Wind - 1 second
All the Light We Cannot See - 2 seconds

[Stephanie]

I nominate Neverwhere

[Sarah]

Second A Man Called Ove

[Kim]

I agree with a man named ove

[Ekiamx]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude and A Man Called Ove

[Zeljka]

I second The Sun also Rises by Hemingway

[herondale ☀️]

I second The Sun Also Rises and Neverwhere.

[Quinty]

I second Neverwhere and The Sun Also Rises

[Chrissy]

Second The Sun Also Rises

[Alyssa]

I second A Man Called Ove and Neverwhere.

[ｄａｎｉｅｌａ]

I second Neverwhere

[Emily]

I'd like to nominate Breakfast at Tiffany's!

[Darren]

I nominate Dune and 1984.

[Monique]

Second A Man Called Ove

[Hannah]

Second A Man Called Ove

[Marcos]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Stephanie]

I second 1984. Over on the modern thread, 1Q84 has been nominated. It would be kinda cool if the group read both in the same month.

[Cheryl]

I second 1984. I didn't realize 1Q84 was related; I'll check that out.

[Cheryl]

Stephanie wrote: "I second 1984. Over on the modern thread, 1Q84 has been nominated. It would be kinda cool if the group read both in the same month."

WITHDRAW my second for 1984, because my main interest in reading it would be to compare it to 1Q84. Just to warn ppl, 1Q84 is over 900 pp long. And one reviewer says 'icky sex scenes.' (And she doesn't seem to be the kind of person who would call a sex scene 'icky' without good reason.)

Edit again - oh boy did I confuse myself, sorry. Clarified now, I hope. Thank you for the catch, Ella.

[Renee]

I will second the sun also rises

[Ella]

No worries, Cheryl. I just didn't want anyone to run away from Orwell because of length. ;) And yes, the titles aren't easy to type quickly without at least a few mistypes! Now I'll just do my seconds all in one post as I meant to do first time. Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.

I second:

The Sun Also Rises
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Kim]

I second A Man Called Ove

[Zainab]

I second 1984 and One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Ա․]

I nominate A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and second Dune by Frank Herbert.

[Alison]

I second 1984 and Neverwhere.

[MissLemon]

Neverwhere please

[Renee]

I will second a Tale of Two Cites. It is a favorite

[Jessica]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Lea]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dune and A Tale of Two Cities.

[Jacqueline]

I second Neverwhere.

[Kimberly]

I’ll second Dune.

[Megan]

I second A Tale of Two Cities and A Man Called Ove

[Jennifer]

I second neverwhere

[*sj*]

I second Dune

[Jennifer]

I also would like to nominate gone with the wind.

[NancyJ]

I nominate All the Light We Cannot See.
It came in second last month, so I know a lot of other people want to read it too.

[Shaneka]

I second: A tale of two cities and One hundred years of solitude!

[NancyJ]

Cheryl wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "I second 1984. Over on the modern thread, 1Q84 has been nominated. It would be kinda cool if the group read both in the same month."


Thanks for the warning about IQ84!

[NancyJ]

I second Breakfast at Tiffany's - though as I recall it's very short
I second Gone with the wind

[Sierra]

I'll second - All the Light We Cannot See & A Man Called Ove

[Quinty]

I second All the Light We Cannot See and A Tale of Two Cities

[Kerri]

I'll second Dune again :)

[Susan]

Gotta second A Man Called Ove! I have to read it one way or another!

[Kaseadillla]

Jennifer wrote: "I also would like to nominate gone with the wind."
We have not read gone with the wind as a group, so unfortunately not eligible here. But next month please keep it in mind for the Classics thread!

[Jacinta]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Zeljka]

I second All the Light We Cannot See

[KP]

I second.

Man called ove
All the light we cannot see
1984

[Jerome]

I second Neverwhere and One Hundred Years of Solitude