For September 2022 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 43
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

⭐ A Clockwork Orange (213p) - 5
⭐ The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 7
⭐ The Hate You Give (444p) - 11
⭐ Ready Player One (374p) - 7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325p) - 4
Beloved (324p) - 4
The Picture of Dorian Gray (272p) - 1
The Great Gatsby (180p) - 2
The Old Man and the Sea (96p) - 2

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate A Clockwork Orange (213 pages)

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. First published 2006. 406 pages. Last read 12/2018.

[Laura H L]

i nominate The Hate You Give (444 p)

[Toni]

I second The Hate you Give

[Shaina]

I second The Hate You Give

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second The Hate You Give

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 374 pages

[adele]

I second A Clockwork Orange

[Renata]

I nominate One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, last read in 2016, 325 pages.

[Lena]

I second The Hate You Give.

[Toni]

I nominate Beloved by Toni Morrison (324 p)

[Wobbley]

I second Beloved by Toni Morrison.

[Wobbley]

I second The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Ready Player One and Beloved.

[Janice]

I would like to second The Thirteenth Tale

[Tiffany]

I second the thirteenth tale

[James]

I nominate "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe", 416 pages

[James]

Actually I just checked and the group hasn't actually read this yet. I'll try adding it to the post 1970 category instead

[fleurette]

I second A Clockwork Orange and Ready Player One

[Andi]

I second: The Thirteenth Tale, A Clockwork Orange and Ready Player One

[Andi]

I nominate The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 1890, 272 pages last read 8/19.

[Kim]

I second Ready Player One and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Taylor]

I second A Clockwork Orange

[Toni]

I second Ready Player One

[Chuck]

I second The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Patti]

The Hate You Give

[Adrienne]

I second the Hate U Give and Ready Player One

[Christy]

I second both the hate you give and ready player one

[Theresa]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Anjali]

I second The Hate You Give

[Linda]

I nominate The Great Gatsby 180 pgs

[Elle]

I nominate, The Old Man and the Sea last read in 2020, 96 pages

[Anjali]

I second The Great Gatsby

[adele]

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second The Great Gatsby and The Old Man and the Sea.

[Adrienne]

I second old man and the sea

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second:
The Hate U Give
The Thirteenth Tale

[Laura]

I second A Clockwork Orange and Beloved

[Robin]

I second The Thirteenth Tale, The Hate You Give, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Beloved.

[Robin]

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Pamela]

I second The Hate You Give

[Renata]

Thanks to everyone who made these great suggestions this month. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in our polls here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...