BOTM SUGGESTIONS — April 2021 - Bookshelf Catch-up

[Tori]

Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for April 2021! 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.

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 February 16.

[Tori]

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

1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring*
Farenheit 451*
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Circe

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 59

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Charlotte's Web (184p) - 2
Jane Eyre (532p) - 12
The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 5
Memoirs of a Geisha (503p) - 9
The Bell Jar (294p) - 15
A Tale of Two Cities (489p) - 1
Anna Karenina (964p) - 1
Pachinko (502p) - 9
Never Let Me Go (288p) - 6
The Jungle Book (277p) - 2
The Kite Runner (371p) - 6
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (132p) - 4
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (496p) - 3

[Gulbeste]

I nominate Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 184 pages

[Cristina]

I second Jane Eyre

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 288pgs

[Megan]

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

[Estefanía]

I nominate The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 294 pages. I also second Jane Eyre.

In the Classics (1969 & before) suggestions someone nominated A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 480 pages. The Bookshelf is getting so large, I'm not surprised if somebody missed a book while checking the old reads.

[Sage]

I nominate Anna Karenina (964 pages) by Leo Tolstoy.

I second Jane Eyre and Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Laura H L]

I nominate Pachinko (502 pages).

[aliciav]

I nominate Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 288 pp.

[Tessa]

I second Jane Eyre and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Jessica]

I second Never Let Me Go and Pachinko

[Toni]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Nike]

I second "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.

[Kesa]

I second Pachinko.

[Renata]

I second The Bell Jar.

[Christy]

I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (277 pages)

[Jennifer]

I second Never Let Me Go

[Renata]

I nominate The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (371 pages)

[Edmund]

I second Jane Eyre.

[Bear]

I second Pachinko and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Lana]

I second Jane Eyre and The Bell Jar

[Darcy]

I'll second Jane Eyre and The Bell Jar.

[Mary-Faith]

I nominate Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (132 pages). I second The Bell Jar, The Kite Runner, and Never Let Me Go.

[Rohit]

I nominate Lord of the Flies by William Golding 182 pages

[Chuck]

alicia v wrote: "I nominate Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 288 pp.
"

I second Never Let Me Go

[Suzy]

I second Jane Eyre and The Bell Jar

[Estefanía]

A member nominated A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, yesterday in the Classics suggestions. She is being back by one member, at the time of this comment.

[Ashley]

Well I’ll nominate A Tree Grows in Brooklyn if you’ve already read it. I can’t access the list on my phone, but want to read it, so on behalf of the other person I nominate it 😂

Or I second it if the post before mine is actually a nomination. Either way let’s read it some time!

[Ashley]

I second:

The Kite Runner

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Bell Jar

[Toni]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, I initially nominated yesterday on the classics page!😂

[Janice]

I second Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Kite Runner. :)

[Anu]

I second Pachinko and The Bell Jar

[Robin]

I second Jane Eyre, Never Let Me Go, and Lord of the Flies.

[Shaina]

I second Charlotte's Web, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bell Jar, Lord of the Flies

[Banshee]

I'll second The Bell Jar, Pachinko and The Kite Runner.

[Martina]

I second Anna Karenina (964 pages)

[Katy]

I second the bell jar and the kite runner

[Gulbeste]

I second The Bell Jar

[Robin]

I second Never Let Me Go, Memoirs of a Geisha and The Joy Luck Club. Lots of good choices for April!

[Jessica]

I second Lord of the Flies

[Rachel]

I second the joy luck club

[Sophie]

I second Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities.

[Alli]

i second Jane Eyre

[Tori]

I second The Joy Luck Club and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Laura]

I second the Bell Jar

[Débora]

I second Lord of the Flies, Pachinko and The Jungle Book

[Megan]

I second The Joy Luck Club and Pachinko

[Rebel]

I second Jane Eyre and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland