BOTM Suggestions May 2019 - Bookshelf Catch-up

[Tori]

Hello everyone! I will be running the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for May 2019! 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: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.

Nominations end Midnight March 16.

[Tori]

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

Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
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

[Tori]

Tracking: through message 55

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (320 p.) - 1
The Handmaid's Tale (344 p.) - 12
Never Let Me Go (288 p.) - 6
The Sun Also Rises (189 p.) - 10
One Hundred Years of Solitude (417 p.) - 14
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325 p.) - 7
The Shining (447 p.) - 2
Dark Matter (342 p.) - 1
A Tale of Two Cities (489 p.) - 1
I Am a Cat (480 p.) - 2
A Clockwork Orange (212 p.) - 2
The Hate U Give (444 p.) - 2
Romeo and Juliet (281 p.) - 2
Little Fires Everywhere (336 p.) - 2
Anna Karenina (964 p.) - 1
The Martian (369 p.) - 6
1984 (237 p.)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372 p.) - 2
Jane Eyre (507 p.) - 3
The Book Thief (552 p.) - 4
The Jungle Book (277 p.) - 4
Dune (604 p.) - 3
The Diary of a Young Girl (304 p.) - 1
Murder on the Orient Express (274 p.)

NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.

[Ildiko]

I vote for these three:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 320 pages
The Handmaid's Tale - 344 pages
Never Let Me Go - 288 pages.

I plan to read these three books in May so I'd be happy to join any groupread discussions on them.

[Zeljka]

I second Harry Potter

[Robin]

I second The Handmaid's Tale, and nominate The Sun Also Rises (189 pages) and One Hundred Years of Solitude (417 pages).

[Honore]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[[deleted user]]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude and nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining and Dark Matter

[Renee]

I second the sun also rises and 100 years of Solitude. I nominate a Tale of Two Cities , I am a Cat,and Clock work Orange

[Laura H L]

I nominate The Hate U Give (444 pages).

[Emma]

I second the handmaidens tale!

[Diana]

I nominate : Romeo and Juliet - 281 pages

[Melinda]

I second Never Let Me Go and The Sun Also Rises, and nominate Little Fires Everywhere (336 pages)

[Monique]

I second The Handmaid's Tale and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Sarah]

I second Dark Matter and Romeo and Juliet

[Alex]

I nominate Anna Karenina, The Martian, 1984, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Jane Eyre

[Nell]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go.

[Rowen]

I would like to nominate The Book Thief (552 pages) and second The Martian.

[Robin]

I second The Book Thief.

[Shelley]

I second Never Let Me Go.

[Satrina]

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Clockwork Orange

[[deleted user]]

Nominate The Jungle Book and second I Am a Cat

[Betsy]

I second Never Let Me Go

[Elizabeth]

I would like to second:
The Handmaid's Tale
The Sun Also Rises
One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Laura]

I would like to nominate Dune. I also second One Hundred Years of Solitude, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Little Fires Everywhere, & The Book Thief

[Kimberly]

I'll second The Sun Also Rises and A Clockwork Orange.

[Sof]

I second The Book Thief, The Handmaid's Tale and Jane Eyre

[Melinda]

I second Jane Eyre

[Delta]

I second A Tale of Two Cities and The Handmaid's Tale

[Lea]

I second 100 Years of Solitude.

[Taina]

I second 100 years of solitude as well. It’s a book I’ve been meaning to read for past few month and is on my bookshelf waiting to be picked up.

[Epi]

I second A Hundred Years of Solitude

[Parisa]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Rachel]

I second The Hate U Give, The Martian, Dune and A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Rachel]

I also second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Linda]

I secondThe Handmaid's Tale and The Jungle Book

[Allison]

I second the handmaid's tale and never let me go. I also nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

[Christina]

The Book Thief is my input.

[Lauren]

I second:
- The Sun Also Rises
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Dune

[Ainun]

I second A Tale Of Two Cities and The Sun Also Rises.

[Allegra]

I second The Sun Also Rises and The Shining

[Nuno]

I second Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

[Michelle]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Laura]

I would also like to second The Martian

[Shelley]

I second The Jungle Book.

[Mary-Faith]

I second Never Let Me Go and Diary of a Young girl.

[Diana]

I second
The Handmaid's Tale
The Shinning
Little Fires Everywhere

[Eunice]

I second the following:
- The Sun Also Rises
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Anna Karenina

[Kyra]

I'll second One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Jungle Book.

[Tori]

I Second:
I Am a Cat
Dune and
The Martian