For July 2022 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 2022 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 May 16.

[Renata]

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

Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Lolita
Anne of Green Gables

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 45
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

⭐A Tale of Two Cities (489p) - 8
Where the Crawdads Sing (370p) - 5
The Martian (384p) - 5
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (336p) - 4
⭐The Jungle Book (277p) - 6
Ready Player One (374p) - 3
⭐The Book Thief (552p) - 7
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (370p) - 3
⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 7
Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 3

[Kimberly]

I nominate A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Last read August 2017, 489 pages.

[Adrienne]

I nominate Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 370 pgs.

[Tori]

I nominate The Martian 384 pages.

[Renata]

I nominate Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, last read 2018, 336 pages.

[Christy]

I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (277 p).

I second The Martian as well as Where the Crawdads Sing.

[Lindsay]

I second Eleanor Oliphant and The Jungle Book

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Eleanor Oliphant

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, last read March 2018, 374 pages

I second Where the Crawdads Sing

[Andi]

I nominate The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, 552 pages.

[Andi]

I second:
A Tale of Two Cities
Jungle Book
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

[Lena]

I second Eleanor Oliphant

[spoko]

I second The Martian.

[Laura H L]

i nominate The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 370 p

[Toni]

I second ready player one and the book thief

[Kim]

I second A Tale of Two Cities, Ready Player One, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

[Toni]

I’d like to nominate A Gentlemen in Moscow (462p)

[Marie-Emilie]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[DaCane]

I second the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

[Shaina]

I second Where the Crawdads Sing, The Book Thief and A Gentleman in Moscow

[Nidhi]

I second
Where the Crawdads Sing
A Gentleman in Moscow

[Katie]

I second The Martian and Ready Player One

[Aleksandra]

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha 434p
I second The Book Thief , A tale of two cities, Jungle Book

[Ida]

I second "Where the Crawdads sing"

[Laura H L]

i second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Tiffany]

I second the jungle book

[adele]

I second a Tale of two cities and the Martian

[Robin]

I second The Jungle Book and A Tale of Two Cities.

[Elle]

I second The Jungle book, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Book Thief

[Tori]

I second The Martian and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Renata]

Tori wrote: "I second The Martian and Memoirs of a Geisha"

Tori, you nominated The Martian, so I won't count your second for that book.

[Tori]

oops! Thanks Renata

[Chuck]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Daisy]

I second The Book Thief

[Art hoe]

i second a tale of two cities

[Janice]

I would like to second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Kathryn]

I second the book thief

[Amy]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Kylie]

I second The Martian

[Theresa]

I second The Book Thief

[Gaye]

I second the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

[DaCane]

A Tale of Two Cities & Memoirs of a Geisha

[Renata]

Thank you for your great suggestions! Nominations are now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...