BOTM Suggestions January 2019 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Marcos]

Hello all! Starting up the monthly discussions for January 2019 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.

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.

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.

>>> Attention, please: new reduced period for nominations this month: just 2 weeks!

Nominations end Midnight November 15.

Midnight by Brasília Summer Time (same as Rio and São Paulo), which is UTC - 2.

[Marcos]

TRACKING

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Nomination - # of Seconds

1. A Clockwork Orange - 9
2. Life of Pi
3. Little Women - 18
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - 6
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 17
6. The Jungle Book - 4
7. Lord of the Flies - 12
8. Dark Matter - 6
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 6
10. Dune - 16
11. Small Great Things - 2
12. The Diary of a Young Girl - 3
13. The Handmaid's Tale - 12
14. The Bell Jar - 8
15. Memoirs of a Geisha - 11
16. One Hundred Years of Solitude - 16
17. American Gods - 3
18. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - 4

[Marcos]

Remember, we can't nominate books we have reread as a group in the last twelve months, and those are

A Christmas Carol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Man Called Ove
All the Light We Cannot See
The Night Circus
Ready Player One
Fahrenheit 451
The Book Thief

[Nova]

I nominate A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

[soph.connects.the.dots]

I nominate The Life of Pi

[Natalie]

I nominate Little Women and To Kill a Mockingbird

[Delaney]

I nominate Breakfast at Tiffany's

I also want to second Little Women

[Jen from Quebec :0)]

I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling...I will figure out what I will 2nd in a later post. Thanks. ---Jen from Quebec :0)

[Nova]

I second Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Zainab]

I nominate Lord of the Flies and Dark Matter

[Monique]

I second Little Women, Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird

[Elizabeth]

I nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Foxed]

I’d like to second Breakfast at Tiffanys and A Clockwork Orange.

[Diana]

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and To Kill a Mocking Bird.

[Allison]

I nominate Dune by Frank Herbert

[Cass]

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Little Women

[Shelley]

I second The Jungle Book, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Little Women.

[Renee]

I will second Clockwork Orange.

[Kimberly]

I'll second Dune and nominate Small Great Things.

[Jessica]

I nominate The Diary of Anne Frank

[Allison]

I second The Diary of Anne Frank

[Tori]

I second Dune and Small Great Things

[Pye]

I nominate The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

I second Dune.

[Allison]

I second The Handmaid’s Tale

[lethe]

I second Lord of the Flies.

[Mary-Faith]

I nominate The Bell Jar. And I second The Diary of Anne Frank.

[Laura]

I will second Dune, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Andrea]

second the Hand Maid's Tale

[Susan]

I second Dune and Little Women.

I also would like to nominate Memoirs of a Geisha (often mentioned as a historical fiction classic, and also seems like a good longer-read for winter :).

[Han]

I second To Kill a Mockingbird and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Kimberly]

I’ll second Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Holly]

I'll second Breakfast at Tiffany's and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Brandi]

I nominate One Hundred Years of Solitude and second Dark Matter

[[deleted user]]

I second, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dune & Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

[Honore]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude!

[Sarah]

I second Dark Matter

[Han]

I second The Handmaid's Tale and One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Clarissa]

I second Little Women.

[Renee]

I second 100 years of Solitude

[Zeljka]

I nominate:
-American Gods

I second:
-Little Women
-Lord of the Flies

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Nova wrote: "I nominate A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess"

Delaney wrote: "I nominate Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Jen from Quebec :0) wrote: "I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling"

Zainab wrote: "I nominate Lord of the Flies"

Elizabeth wrote: "I nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Allison wrote: "I nominate Dune by Frank Herbert"

Mary-Faith wrote: "I nominate The Bell Jar"

Brandi wrote: "I nominate One Hundred Years of Solitude"

second all of these

[Linda]

I second To Kill a Mockingbird and Small Great Things

[soph.connects.the.dots]

I second The Jungle Book, Breakfast at Tiffany's, & The Bell Jar.

[Héloïse]

I second Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Memoirs of a geisha

[Mandi]

I nominate Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

I also second The Bell Jar.

[Michelle]

I second A Clockwork Orange

[Marcos]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Marcos]

Tracking updated.

[Shaneka]

i second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Line]

I second ‘memoirs of a geisha’