BOTM Suggestions October 2019 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Joanna Loves Reading]

Hello all! Starting up the monthly discussions for October 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: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.

Nominations end Midnight August 15.

[Joanna Loves Reading]

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Good Omens
The Picture of Dorian Gray
And Then There Were None
The Night Circus
The Handmaid’s Tale
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax

[Joanna Loves Reading]

Tracking: FINAL TALLY

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds

1. Rebecca (449) - 9
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (224) - 1
3. Frankenstein (335) - 9
4. Murder on the Orient Express (256) - 10
5. The Hate U Give (444) - 2
6. The Kite Runner (371) - 9
7. Dark Matter (342) - 10
8. In Cold Blood (343) - 0
9. Dune (687) - 3
10. To Kill a Mockingbird (324) - 1
11. The Thirteenth Tale - 1
12. It (1090) - 2
13. Peter Pan (172) - 3
14. Memoirs of a Geisha (434) - 0
15. Small Great Things (480) - 1

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

[[deleted user]]

I nominate Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (449 pages)

[Renee]

I will nominate The perks of Being a Wallflower

[Robin]

I nominate Frankenstein (335 pages)!

[Rachel]

I second Frankenstein.

[Edmund]

I nominate Murder on the Orient Express (256 pages).

[Edmund]

I second Rebecca and Frankenstein.

[Laura H L]

I nominate The Hate U Give (444 pages)

[Renee]

I second Murder on The Orient express

[Melinda]

I nominate The Kite Runner

[Melinda]

I second Murder on the Orient Express

[Caitlin]

I second Frankenstein.

[Shelley]

I second The Hate U Give.

[Jayme]

I second the Hate U Give

[Monique]

I nominate Dark Matter (342 pages) and second The Kite Runner.

[Mandy]

A nod for Rebecca here.

[Nelson]

i second Frankenstein

[Renata]

I second Dark Matter.

[Renee]

I second dark Matter

[Zeljka]

I second Frankenstein and nominate In cold blood.

[Andrea]

I second Rebecca

[Emily (moonlight&moths)]

I second Frankenstein and Rebecca!

[Satrina]

I second The Kite Runner

[Ash Can't Sleep]

Murder on the Orient Express seconded!

[Laura]

I nominate Dune & I second The Kite Runner

[Edmund]

I second Dune.

[Sara]

Frankenstein

[Andy]

I second Frankenstein.

[Noni]

I second Rebecca!
Kite Runner is just AMAZING!

[Noni]

Or “to kill a mockingbird “??

[Jen from Quebec :0)]

I will 2nd The Kite Runner, please! --Jen from Quebec :0)

[Linda]

I second The Kite Runner

[Linda]

I nominateThe Thirteenth Tale--406 pages

[Renata]

I nominate It by Steven King, 1090 pages

[NancyJ]

I second Kite Runner.

[Brandi]

I second Dark Matter.

I nominate Peter Pan

[Caramell]

I nominate It

[Kimberly]

I'll nominate Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) and Small Great Things (480p).

[Renee]

I second Peter Pan

[Marie]

I second The Kite Runner

[Pamela]

I second Rebecca and The Kite Runner

[KP]

I second The Kite Runner

[Chuck]

I second Dune.

[Mona]

I go with Murder on the Orient Express

[Sophie]

I second Dark Matter

[Sarah]

I'll add a second for Murder on the Orient Express

[Chelsea]

I second Murder on The Orient Express

[Sierra]

I second Dark Matter