January 2023 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Wow, I can't believe I am posting something for 2023!! Time flies.

Nominations for the January 2023 Revisit the Shelf book will open on November 1st, 2022.

1. Only books currently on our group bookshelf are eligible: Group Bookshelf

Time Since Last Read. A book is only eligible for rereading if it has not been a group read in the last 12 months (1 year). A book read by the group in any of our reading categories in the past year is not eligible for nomination.

Below is a list of the past year's Revisit the Bookshelf winners. Please do not nominate any of these:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott December 2022
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller November 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque October 2022
Villette by Charlotte Brontë September 2022
East of Eden by John Steinbeck August 2022
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton July 2022
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf June 2022
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy May 2022
Persuasion by Jane Austen April 2022
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco March 2022
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky February 2022
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton January 2022


2. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

3. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.

4. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.

You may change a second from one book to another. Please state which book you originally seconded and which you would like to change to.

5. In the interest of variety, please wait a month or more to renominate a book that has been in the poll. These are the books from our last poll that did not win:

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott pub. 1819, 496 pp. last read Jan 2017

Summer by Edith Wharton (1917) 127 pages, last read Aug. 2018.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages, last read July 2019

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (1956) 48 pages, last read Dec. 2019

Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville (1851), 654 pages, last read as a long-read April-June 2017

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854), 352 pages Last read Nov. 2017


6, Only one book per author; in the event of more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.


Nominations will run from November 1st thru the 14th. Polls will open on the 16th and run till the end of the month.

[Pat]

I nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages. Last read June 2018.

[Marilyn]

I nominate Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (title story) by Truman Capote. Published in 1958. Last read in 2016.

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Waiting for Godot. Last read 2018/06/01

[Michaela]

I nominate The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. 1826. Last read 08/2017.

[Kimberly]

I nominate The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. Last read 9/2016. First published in 1982. 448 pages

[Shaina]

I second Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Paula W]

Pat wrote: "I nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages. Last read June 2018."

I second this.

[Shannon SA]

I second The Mill on the Floss

[Pat]

Thank you, Paula and Shannon.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

The nominations so far are listed below. Let me know if I need to correct anything.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot pub. 1860, pp. 579, last read June 2018
Nominated by Pat: Paula W, Shannon SW

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958) 142 pages - only the title story - last read Oct. 2016
Nominated by Marilyn: Shaina,

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Aik, Luffy

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017.
Nominated by Michaela: Shawn

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. 1982, 448 pages, Group read Sept. 2016
Nominated by Kimberly: Robynne

The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Aik:

[AiK]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Waiting for Godot. Last read 2018/06/01"
I second

[AiK]

I nominate The Iliad by Homer

[Robynne]

I second House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

[Luffy Sempai]

I second Waiting for Godot.

[Shawn]

I second The Last of the Mohicans

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

The nominations so far are listed below. Let me know if I need to correct anything.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot pub. 1860, pp. 579, last read June 2018
Nominated by Pat: Paula W, Shannon SW

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958) 142 pages - only the title story - last read Oct. 2016
Nominated by Marilyn: Shaina,

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Aik, Luffy

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017.
Nominated by Michaela: Shawn

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. 1982, 448 pages, Group read Sept. 2016
Nominated by Kimberly: Robynne

The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Aik:

[Lorraine]

I second The Iliad by Homer.

[Michaela]

Shawn wrote: "I second The Last of the Mohicans"

Thanks Shawn! :)

[Jaqui]

I second Breakfast at Tiffany’s!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Marilyn wrote: "I nominate Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (title story) by Truman Capote. Published in 1958. Last read in 2016."

SECOND

[Wreade1872]

Second for Last of the Mohicans.

[Heather L]

Luffy wrote: "I second Waiting for Godot."

Second

[Michaela]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Second for Last of the Mohicans."

Thanks Wreade! :)

[Nike]

I second Waiting for Godot

[Dave]

I second The House of the Spirits

[Klowey]

I second The Iliad.

[Cynda]

I second The House of Spirits.

[George P.]

Since we have a space for one more nominee (and I've alread read most of the nominees), I will nominate The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, last read in 2018.

[Andrew]

I second the iliad

[Pat]

I second The Left Hand of Darkness.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

The nominations so far are listed below. I will close the nominations at bedtime tomorrow . That will be about 26 hours away (since we are all in different time zones). Let me know if I need to correct anything.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot pub. 1860, pp. 579, last read June 2018
Nominated by Pat: Paula W, Shannon SW

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958) 142 pages - only the title story - last read Oct. 2016
Nominated by Marilyn: Shaina, Jaqui, Matt, RJ- slayer of trolls,

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Aik, Luffy, Heather L., Nike

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017.
Nominated by Michaela: Shawn, Wreade1872,

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. 1982, 448 pages, Group read Sept. 2016
Nominated by Kimberly: Robynne, Dave, Cynda,

The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Aik: Lorraine, Klowey, Andrew

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2018
Nominated by George P.: Pat, Lynn

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

You have made my job easy again by sorting out the nominations yourselves! The list above goes to the poll. Thanks everyone