October 2021 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 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 August 16.

[Tori]

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

Lolita
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

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 44
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Nightingale (448) - 2
⭐Frankenstein (273) - 9
⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462) - 9
⭐Wuthering Heights (464p) - 6
⭐A Man Called Ove (337) - 6
Life of Pi (460) - 2
⭐Slaughterhouse-Five (275) - 7
The Fellowship of the Ring (527)
The Haunting of Hill House (182) - 1
Neverwhere (370) - 5

[JoJo_theDodo]

The Nightingale ( 448pgs)

[Renata]

I nominate Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (273 pages), last read in 2016.

[Megan]

I nominate: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (read in 2019).

[Sophie]

I nominate Wuthering Heights (464 pages).

[aliciav]

I second Frankenstien.

[Adrienne]

I nominate A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
337 pages

[spoko]

I second The Nightingale, Frankenstein, and A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Heather]

I second Frankenstein

[Shaina]

I second A Man Called Ove and A Gentleman in Moscow

[Martina]

I nominate Life of Pi (460 pages)

[Sage]

I second Wuthering Heights.

[María]

I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (275 pages).

[Marissa]

i second wuthering heights

[Edmund]

I second Wuthering Heights and Slaughterhouse-Five.

[Lindsay]

I second Slaughterhouse 5

[Nidhi]

I second The Nightingale.

[Christy]

I second Frankentstein and Slaughterhouse-Five and nominate the Fellowship of the Ring (527 pgs.)

[Renata]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five.

[Naomi]

i second Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Life of Pi

[Dew]

I second A Gentleman In Moscow

[Sage]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five.

[Linda]

I nominate Neverwhere 370 pages

[Linda]

I second Life of Pi

[Spenser]

I second Wuthering Heights

[[deleted user]]

I second Frankenstein and The Haunting of Hill House

[Krysle]

I vote neverwhere.

[Cat]

I second: A Gentleman in Moscow, Neverwhere, and A Man Called Ove 👍🏻

[Robin]

I second: A Man Called Ove and Neverwhere.

[Theresa]

I second Frankenstein and Neverwhere

[Chuck]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Andi]

I second Slaughter House Five

[Toni]

I second a man called ove.

[Robin]

I second Frankenstein

[Chris]

I seconf Frankenstein

[Adrienne]

I second gentleman in moscow

[Megan]

I second Wuthering Heights

[Robin]

I second A Man Called Ove and A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Pamela]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow and A Man Called Ove

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Gentleman in Moscow

[Ajay]

I second Neverwhere and Slaughterhouse-Five

[Tori]

The 5 books going to the poll for October's Catch-up read are:
Frankenstein (273)
A Gentleman in Moscow (462)
Wuthering Heights (464)
A Man Called Ove (337)
Slaughterhouse-Five (275)

Great picks this month!