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

[Kaseadillla]

Hello all! Starting up the monthly discussions for June 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.

Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category.

I'll start off by suggesting North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.

[Laura H L]

I will nominate The Bell Jar

[Zainab]

I am nominating Gone with the Wind.

Everyone has loved it, including my parents who refer to it quite a lot (and they are not generally readers).

[Alison]

I nominate Native Son by Richard Wright.

[Hannah]

Nominate Death in Venice

[Kirsten]

I second Gone with the Wind, I've always wanted to read that!

[Melanie]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

[Marcos]

I second The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, it was very well voted recently.

[Megan]

I second The Bell Jar

[[deleted user]]

Second The Bell Jar

[Marcos]

I also second Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann.

[Drea]

The bell Jar

[Renee]

I would like to nominate The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

[Jessica]

I nominate The Trial by Franz Kafka

[Stephanie]

Current list of suggestions and seconds (as of 4/30, after post 72)

The Bell Jar - 16 seconds
Rebecca - 8 seconds
Gone with the Wind - 8 seconds
The Plague - 5 seconds
Middlemarch - 5 seconds
The Catcher in the Rye - 5 seconds
North and South - 4 seconds
Catch-22 - 4 seconds
The Iliad - 4 seconds
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - 4 seconds
Death in Venice - 3 seconds
Slaughterhouse-Five - 2 seconds
Mary Poppins - 2 seconds
Native Son - 1 second
The End of the Affair - 1 second
The Trial - 1 second
The Big Rock Candy Mountain - 1 second
Tales of the South Pacific - 1 second
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Sixth Column

[Kimberly]

I'll nominate Middlemarch by George Eliot.

[Renee]

ill second Middle march

[Elizabeth]

Second Middlemarch

[Sarah]

Second The Bell Jar

[Sierra]

So many interesting nominations...I'm going to second Gone with the Wind

[Chrissy]

Nominating The Plague by Albert Camus

[Zeljka]

i nominate The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

[Heather]

I will second The End of the Affair. It's been on my list for awhile!

[Heather]

Chrissy wrote: "Nominating The Plague by Albert Camus"

Such an interesting book. I've read it several times.

[Anne-Kathrin]

I'll second The Catcher in the Rye and The Plague and I'd like to nominate (once more) Catch-22

[Nell]

I second Native Son.

[Darren]

Nominate Rebecca and second The Plague and Gone with the wind

[Jacqueline]

I’ll second Rebecca

[Shanna]

second The Bell Jar

[Kristin]

Second the plague and gone with the wind

[Lalitha]

I second The Bell Jar

[Hannah]

I second The Bell Jar and The Plague

[Debbie]

Second the bell jar

[Renee]

second rebecca

[Nico]

I also second Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann.

[Lea]

I second:
North and South
Gone with the Wind
The Bell Jar
The Plague
Rebecca

[Susan]

I second:
North and South
Rebecca
Gone with the Wind

[Monique]

Second The Bell Jar!

[Cheryl]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

[Emily]

I'll second The Bell Jar, Middlemarch, and Rebecca!

[Kerri]

I will second:
North and South
Middlemarch
Gone with the Wind

[NancyJ]

I nominate The Iliad by Homer. I didn't think I would like something like this, but I just listened to part of an audiobook that was very entertaining (narrated by Dan Stevens).

I second
Middlemarch
North and South
The Bell Jar - for those who have never read it. (I'm not sure I'll want to read it again myself though.)

[Pooja]

i second : the catcher in the rye
rebecca

[Marcos]

Cheryl wrote: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass"

Cheryl, I second Alice.

When we read it I set a huge project of reading several editions at the same time, which was of course impossible! :-) So, I still have some Alices to read / reread! :-)

But I think we read only "in Wonderland", not both.

[Marcos]

Nancy, I second The Iliad whenever it is nominated, so seconded!

But I've noticed over the time that "too classic" classics rarely obtain much seconding. :-)

[Lissa]

I second Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[Cheryl]

Lisa, thank you. I guess if the group only wants to read the first that's fine, but I think the sequel is important. 'Looking Glass' does, iiuc, have many of the scenes/ characters that we think we know/ remember from 'Wonderland.'

[Kirsten]

iiuc? icui might be in case u interested, but not sure of iiuc.

[NancyJ]

Marcos wrote: "Nancy, I second The Iliad whenever it is nominated, so seconded!

But I've noticed over the time that "too classic" classics rarely obtain much seconding. :-)"

Thanks for the heads up. In that case I'll nominate Slaughterhouse-Five instead. It's come very close a few times, so I couldn't resist the 1.99 kindle offer with the audible version (James Franco) for just 1.99 more.

[Satrina]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five