September 2021 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for September 2021 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

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 HERE.

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

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 July 16.

[Renata]

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

Anne of Green Gables
The Kite Runner
Pride and Prejudice
Catch-22
The Bell Jar
1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 50
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Where the Crawdads Sing (384p) - 6
⭐A Tale of Two Cities (489p) - 8
⭐The Shining (659p) - 8
⭐Lolita (331p) - 9
⭐Wuthering Heights (464p) - 8
The Great Gatsby (200p) - 2
⭐The Martian (369p) - 9
One Hundred Years of Solitude (417p) - 7

[Adrienne]

I nominate Where the Crawdads Sing byDelia Owens 384pgs

[spoko]

I nominate A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (489 p.).

[Ellie-May]

I nominate The Shining by Stephen King (659 pages)

[Renata]

I nominate Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (331 pages).

[Sophie]

I nominate Wuthering Heights (464 pages) and I second A Tale of Two Cities

[Ajay]

I second A Tale of Two Cities

[Laura]

I second Lolita

[Edmund]

I second Wuthering Heights and The Shining.

[Rae]

I nominate The Great Gatsby, (200 pages).

[Sage]

I second The Shining, Lolita, and Wuthering Heights.

[Shaina]

I second Where the Crawdads Sing and A Tale of Two Cities

[Tiffany]

I second Wuthering Heights and Where the Crawdads sing

[Diane]

I second, "Where the Crawdads Sing".

[Megan]

I second Wuthering Heights.

[Juan]

I second "Lolita" and "The great Gatsby"

[Christy]

I nominate The Martian by Andy Weir (369).

[María]

I nominate One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (417 pages)

[Lindsey]

I second the Martian

[Aloysius221B]

I second A Tale of Two Cities

[Sage]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[spoko]

I second The Martian.

[Kristina]

I second the Martian.

[aliciav]

I second The Martian.

[Pamela]

I second Where The Crawdads Sing and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[adele]

I second the Martian and Lolita

[Heather]

I second Lolita and the shining

[Shaneka]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Nandini]

I nominate The Great Gatsby (200p)

[Naomi]

I second The Shining, Wuthering Heights and Lolita

[Robin]

I second A Tale of Two Cities and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Arbaz]

i nominate Wuthering Heights

[Zece]

I second Wuthering Heights

[Nike]

So many great books! I therefore have to second as many as four of them:
"Where the Crawdads sing",
"A Tale of Two Cities",
"The Shining" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

[Martina]

I second Lolita and A Tale of Two Cities.

[Karen]

I second The Tale of Two Cities

[Marissa]

i second lolita and the martian!

[Mary Erickson]

I second The Shining.

[Tiffany]

I second lolita

[Chuck]

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Sonia]

I nominate Great Expectations. My copy has 514pp.

[Dorian]

The Martian!

[Renata]

Sonia wrote: "I nominate Great Expectations. My copy has 514pp."

Sonia, this topic is for nominations of books previously read by the group at least once. Great Expectations hasn't been read before, but can be nominated in the Classics topic here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Theresa]

I second The Martian, The Shining, and One Hundred Years of Solitude!

[Andi]

I second The Shining and Wuthering Heights

[Laura]

i second where the crawdads sing.

[Sonia]

Renata wrote: "Sonia wrote: "I nominate Great Expectations. My copy has 514pp."

Sonia, this topic is for nominations of books previously read by the group at least once. Great Expectations hasn't been read befor..."

I misunderstood, read the topic too quickly! Thanks>

[Chris]

I second The Martian