BOTM Suggestions October 2018 — Classics (1969 & before)

[Joanna Loves Reading]

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for October 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 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you!

Nominations end 9 PM PDT August 25.

[Joanna Loves Reading]

Tracking: through message 160 NOMINATIONS CLOSED

Nominees are bolded!

Nominations — # of seconds
1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain — 1
2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — 27
3. The Grapes of Wrath — 10
4. The Idiot — 8
5. The Prince — 2
6. Dracula — 23
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes — 22
8. Rebecca — 22
9. The Phantom of the Opera — 11
10. The Secret Garden — 9
11. Utopia — 1
12. A Room with a View — 2
13. Mary Poppins — 1
14. The Haunting of Hill House — 4
15. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — 2
16. The Exorcist — 1
17. Kristin Lavransdatter/The Wreath — 5
18. Robinson Crusoe — 0
19. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — 0
20. The Three Musketeers — 0
21. Bleak House — 1
22. The Monkey's Paw — 3
23. Carrie — 0

[Renee]

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

[Cheryl]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Marcos]

Second Jekyll and Hyde.

[Kimberly]

I'll nominate The Grapes of Wrath.

[Zeljka]

I nominate The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Marcos]

Zeljka is terribly good for nominations! :-)
I'll have to second The Idiot as well!

[Marcos]

The group is fully back!

You may like to have a look at my post on the last polls here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Jessica]

I nominate The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

[Zeljka]

Thanx Marcos:-)
Can't help it, I love Russian classics;-) but they have little chance on winning on poll I know...:-(

[[deleted user]]

I nominate Dracula by Bram Stoker

And will also second The Idiot

[Zeljka]

I second Dracula - it's 5 stars read for me.

[Stefania]

I second Dracula and The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Megan]

I second Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Megan]

I nominate When Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury

[Marcos]

Oh, my! Impossible not to second Ray Bradbury!

So, second Something Wicked This Way Comes!

[Joanna Loves Reading]

I nominate Rebecca

& second Dracula & Grapes of wrath

[Joanna Loves Reading]

I have updated tracking for each thread, see message 2. I will try to update daily, but it depends some on activity.

[Jen from Quebec :0)]

I will 2nd The Grapes of Wrath !

SO good and such a great social commentary .vs. capitalism/corporations while also being a historical work about America's Great Depression. An important read! --Jen from Quebec :0)

I would also like to 2nd Something Wicked This Way Comes !

[Honore]

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Maybel]

I second Rebecca.

[Jessica]

I second Grapes of Wrath

[Jess]

I nominate The Phantom of the Opera

[Stephanie]

I nominate The Secret Garden

[Joanne]

I second Rebecca

[Audrė]

I second The Secret Garden :)

[Cheryl]

Ok, wow, I need to second The Secret Garden because if anyone hasn't read it yet, they need to put it on their shortlist. (But I still hope Jekyll and Hyde wins.)

[Débora]

I second The Idiot

[Susan]

I second:
Jekyll & Hyde
Something Wicked
Rebecca
Secret Garden

[Allegra]

Gotta go spooky with my seconds:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Zeljka]

I second The Secret Garden &
The Phantom of the Opera

[Satrina]

I second The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Andrea]

I second Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[Zainab]

I second the strange case of Dr. Jekyll an Mr. Hide

[Anne-Kathrin]

I'd like to nominate Utopia by Thomas More

[Ace]

I second Rebecca

[Jemma]

I nominate A Room with a View by E. M. Forster.

[Tr1sha]

I second Rebecca.

[Stefania]

I also second The Idiot :)

[Linda]

I nominate Mary Poppins

[ｄａｎｉｅｌａ]

I would like to second Rebecca and Dracula!

[Brady]

Dracula (because of Halloween of course) but also I must second The Idiot.

Good nominations this month so far!!

[Jackie]

I second the following books:

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath

[Debbie]

I second Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde

[Brian]

I second Something Wicked this way Comes.

[Marlene]

I nominate Rebecca

[Joanna Loves Reading]

Tally updated!

[Kyra]

I'll second The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde *note this is just a short story* and Dracula and nominate The Haunting of Hill House.

[Tori]

I second Dracula and The Haunting of Hill House