BOTM SUGGESTIONS — October 2020 — Classics (1969 & before)

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for October 2020 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.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight August 16

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 85

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Fire Next Time (106p) -4
The Hound of the Baskervilles(256p) - 13
Rabbit, Run (339p) - 6
A Wizard of Earthsea (183p) -12
Something Wicked This Way Comes (293p) - 16
Dracula (488p) -18
The Old Man and the Sea (96p) - 3
Their Eyes Were Watching God (219p) - 10
Of Mice and Men (107p) - 4
Oliver Twist (608p) - 6
Hard Times (353p) - 1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - 2
Silas Marner (262p) - 3

[Skittles]

I nominate The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. (106 pages)

[Chuck]

I second The Fire Next Time

[Renata]

I nominate The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (256 pages)

[Caramell]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Renee]

I nominate Rabbit, Run 339 page

[Cristina]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Estefanía]

I nominate A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 183 pages.

[Tori]

I nominate Something Wicked This Way Comes. (293p)

[Renata]

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Estefanía]

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes.

[Kaseadillla]

i second wizard of earthsea

[[deleted user]]

I nominate Dracula (488p) and second The Fire Next Time

[Renee]

I second Something Wicked this Way comes. It is an all time favorite I want to reread

[KP]

I second Dracula by Bram Stoker, to put us in a Halloween mood.

[Nike]

I second "A Wizard of Earthsea".

[Débora]

I nominate The Old Man and the Sea (96 pages)

[Valeria]

I also second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[superawesomekt]

I second the Hound of the Baskervilles

[superawesomekt]

I also second Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Lea]

I second Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Tiana]

I nominate Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (219 pgs)

[Martina]

I nominate Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (107 pages)

[Diana]

I nominate Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (608 pages)

[Skittles]

I second Their Eyes Were Watching God.

[Lana]

I second The Fire Next Time

[Lana]

I nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (311 pages)

[Mike]

I second Rabbit, Run

[Edmund]

I second Rabbit, Run, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Fire Next Time.

[Gulbeste]

I second Oliver Twist

[Ashley]

I second Their Eyes Were Watching God

[Ashley]

I nominate Hard Times by Charles Dickens (353 pages)

[France-Andrée]

I second Rabbit, run and Of Mice and Men

[Joya]

I second Oliver Twist

[Frances]

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Sue]

I second Their eyes were watching god

[Anu]

I second "Of Mice and Men" - John Steinbeck

[Edmund]

J. wrote: "Hello, I nominate Mission 3-R. It's about how a treasonous General Ben Jackson steals a top secret trillion dollar time machine and leads a group of rogue American soldiers back in time 400 years, ..."
I don't this is a place to promote your own book. Also I second Their Eyes Were Watching God.

[Tiki-Tami]

I second A Wizard of Earthsea

[Mariana]

I second Dracula and nominate Uncle Tom's Cabin

[Brittany]

I second Dracula

[Lea]

I second Dracula

[Kimberly]

I'll second Rabbit, Run and The Old Man and the Sea.

[Jade Levi]

Something Wicked this Way Comes.

[Elise]

I second Hound of Baskerville and Dracula

[Cara]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Nikita]

I second Dracula

[Sarah]

I second dracula and Oliver twist

[Linda]

I nominate Silas Marner by George Eliot
262 pages

I also second Hound of the Baskervilles