For October 2022 - Classics (1969 & before)

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 in the CLASSICS category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

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]

Tracking through message: 54
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (244p) - 10
Cannery Row (181p) - 3
⭐The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 9
⭐The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 14
Robinson Crusoe (286p) - 6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 6
⭐The War of the Worlds (192p) - 8
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (108p) - 3
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146p) - 5
The Crucible (143p) - 7
Fathers and Sons (244p) - 1
The Wind in the Willows (197p) - 2
A Separate Peace (208p)

[Andi]

I nominate:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 1876, 244 pages

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, published 1945

[Elle]

I nominate The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 182 pages, first published 1905

[Lindsay]

I second Tom Sawyer

[Lea]

I nominate The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (256 pages) and second The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Cannery Row.

[Adrienne]

I nominate Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) 286 pages

[Renata]

I nominate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, 176 pages, published 1964.

I also second The Hound of the Baskervilles, because it's October!

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[adele]

I second Cannery Row, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[adele]

And I nominate The War of the Worlds (192 pages)

[Elle]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[Wobbley]

I second the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Scarlet Pimpernel and Tom Sawyer

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (108 pages)

[Andi]

I second:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
War of the Worlds
Legend of Sleepy Hollow

[Linda]

I second Scarlet Pimpernel, Hound of the Baskervilles and Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[Linda]

I nominate We Have Always Lived in the Castle 146 pages

[Anjali]

I second The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[superawesomekt]

I second the following:
Tom Sawyer
Scarlet Pimpernel
Robinson Crusoe

[Tina]

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[Lea]

I second We have always lived in the castle and Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Mariana]

I nominate Tales of Love of Madness and of Death / Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte to add a bit of variety to the picks

[Renata]

Mariana wrote: "I nominate Tales of Love of Madness and of Death / Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte to add a bit of variety to the picks"

Mariana, this book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50,000 ratings. Is there another book you would like to nominate instead?

[Robin]

I nominate The Crucible by Arthur Miller. 143 pages.

[Carrie]

I second The Crucible.

[beets4borshenko]

I nominate Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev First published 1862, 244 pages.

[Blue]

I second:
The War of Worlds
The Crucible
Hounds of Baskerville

[fleurette]

I second
The War of the Worlds
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Scarlet Pimpernel

[Lena]

I second The Hound of the Baskerville

[August]

I second Robinson Crusoe, Fathers and Sons, and War of the Worlds

[Shaina]

I second Robinson Crusoe, The Crucible and War of the Worlds

[Gil-or (readingbooksinisrael)]

I nominate The Wind in the Willows, 197 p

[Gil-or (readingbooksinisrael)]

I second We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[spoko]

I second We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

[Katie]

I second the adventures of Tom Sawyer

[Christy]

I second the hound of the Baskervilles

[Cynthia]

I nominate A Separate Peace by John Knowles (208 pages)

[Cynthia]

I second:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The War of the Worlds
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Crucible

[Taylor]

I second The War of the Worlds and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second The Wind in the Willows

[Pamela]

I second The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Crucible

[Lindsay]

I second Robinson Crusoe

[Kaseadillla]

For inspiration...

Goodreads is posting about the "Century of Beloved Books" - maybe we tackle some of these as a group?

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...

[Mike]

I second:
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Wind in the Willows

[Sarah]

I second the adventures of Tom sawyer

[Robin]

I second Tom Sawyer.

[Aleksandra]

I second the Hound of the Baskervilles, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer