BOTM Suggestions February 2019 - Classics (1969 & Before)

[Marcos]

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for February 2019 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

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! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.

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

Nominations end Midnight December 15.

[Marcos]

TRACKING

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Nomination - # of seconds

1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 8
2. Slaughterhouse-Five - 14
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 3
4. The Age of Innocence - 7
5. The Fellowship of the Ring - 21
6. The Great Gatsby - 11
7. The Master and Margarita - 18
8. Zorba the Greek - 8
9. The Beautiful and Damned - 10
10. Pride and Prejudice - 5
11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 25
12. South American Jungle Tales - 2
13. The Brothers Karamazov - 5
14. Gone with the Wind - 3
15. Animal Farm - 6
16. The Three Musketeers - 3
17. Runaway Horses - 3
18. Go Tell It on the Mountain - 1
19. Don Quixote - 4





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[Marcos]

Reserved

[Renee]

I would like to nominate The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

[Laura H L]

I would like to nominate Slaughterhouse-Five

[Zainab]

I nominate The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[Zeljka]

I nominate The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

And second Tom Sawyer

[Tori]

I am going to try this again, I nominate The Fellowship of the Ring

[Renee]

I will secondSlaughterhouse-Five

[Kamilah]

The Great Gatsby

[Ali]

Master and margarita

[Zainab]

I hope it is okay that I am nominating a second book: Zorba the Greek :D

[Ali]

I nominate 'The Master and Margarita'

[Stephanie]

I second The Fellowship of the Ring

[Neira]

I nominate The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Neira]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4708

[Neira]

The Great Gatsby by F.scott Fitzgerald

[Amy]

I second The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

[Natalie]

I second The Great Gatsby and The Fellowship of the Ring

[John]

I nominate Pride and Prejudice!

I second Zorba the Greek.

[NancyJ]

Oh, John beat me to a Jane Austen nomination. I was going to nominate Persuasion, but I love Pride and Prejudice too.

I second Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I second The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

[Catherine]

I second Fellowship of the Ring and Slaughterhouse Five

[Betsy]

Slaughterhouse Five
The Master and Margarita is one of my favs - I'd be up for re-reading it.

[Quinty]

I second The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Fellowship of the Ring

[Linda]

I nominate A Tree Grows in Brooklyn It came in second last time with only a 3 vote difference

[NancyJ]

Linda wrote: "I nominate A Tree Grows in Brooklyn It came in second last time with only a 3 vote difference"

It's so good! I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I'll bet many here will identify with Francie's trips to the library.

[Mariana]

I nominate South American Jungle Tales

[*sj*]

Seconds both Both 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Zorba the Greek'

I loved both of these so much when I first read them, but it's been a long time since then. Would be great to revisit.

[Joanna]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Age of Innocence.

[Aqsa]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Age of Innocence

[Pat the Book Goblin]

I nominate the Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky!

[Myrthe]

I second The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Simge]

Fellowship of the ring please!

[Aditi]

Renee wrote: "I would like to nominate The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"

I second this

[Renee]

Neira wrote: "I nominate The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald"

I will second The Beautiful and the Dammed

[Marcos]

This is an excellent start, all great suggestions!

To keep supporting books from non-English language literatures, I will second these:

- The Master and Margarita, Russian
- Zorba the Greek, Greek
- South American Jungle Tales, Uruguayan

[Marcos]

But the link Mariana provided for "South American Jungle Tales" is for an edition which doesn't have a good description of the work. So, have a look at these other two editions, with much better ones

Jungle Tales

South American Jungle Tales

[M]

Yes! Zorba the Greek!

[Marcos]

Tally updated.

See message 2.

[Kamatchi]

I would like to second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[lethe]

I second The Age of Innocence.

[ticholam]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Mary-Faith]

I nominate Gone With the Wind. And I second The Great Gatsby.

[Ali]

I second the brothers karamazov

[Kimberly]

I'll second Slaughterhouse-Five, The Age of Innocence, and The Master and Margarita.

[Bronze]

I second The Beautiful and Damned

[Kyra]

Finally, some other Fitzgerald fans! I will second The Fellowship of the Ring, The Beautiful and Damned, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

[Ellie]

I second The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Beautiful and Damned, Slaughterhouse-Five and The Master and Margarita.

[Amy]

I second Tom Sawyer + or Huckleberry Finn

[Zeljka]

I second:
-The Fellowship of the Ring
-The Great Gatsby
-The Master and Margarita
-The Brothers Karamazov