April 2023 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Nominations for the April 2023 Revisit the Shelf book will open on February 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:

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath March 2023
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino February 2023
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote January 2023
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


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:

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Last read in 2014.

[Heather L]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, last read in 2015, 180pg.

[Marilyn]

I nominate Beowulf by Unknown. 213 pages. Last read in 2015.

[Kimberly]

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Last read in 2015.

First published in 1958.
209 pages

[Tom]

I second Beowulf

[Aprilleigh]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Last read in 2014."

I'll second this.

[Sam]

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Last read in 2015.

First published in 1958.
209 pages"

I second

[Paula W]

I nominate Treasure Island. Last read in March 2020, as far as I can tell.

[AiK]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Last read in 2014."

I second

[Shawn]

Paula W wrote: "I nominate Treasure Island. Last read in March 2020, as far as I can tell."

I second Treasure Island

[Carolien]

I second Things Fall Apart.

[Darren]

I second Les Miserables.

[Jeffrey]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Last read in 2014."

second

[Cynda]

Seconding Les Misérables

[Bigollo]

I second Treasure Island

[George P.]

I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind read in 2015.

[J_BlueFlower]

George P. wrote: "I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind read in 2015."

I second

[Luffy Sempai]

Marilyn wrote: "I nominate Beowulf by Unknown. 213 pages. Last read in 2015."

I second Boewulf.

[Dave]

I second Les Misérables

[Erin]

I second Les Misérables

[Bárbara]

Marilyn wrote: "I nominate Beowulf by Unknown. 213 pages. Last read in 2015."

Second!

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Please let me know if there is something that needs to be corrected.
This is our nominations list so far:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 180 pages, last read Jan 2015
Nominated by Heather L.: Lori,

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo pub.1862, 869 pages, Last read Oct. 2014 Nominated by J-Blueflower : Cynda, Jeffrey, Darren, Aik, Aprilleigh, Erin, Dave

Beowulf by Unknown (900) 160 pages, last read April 2015.
Nominated by Tom : Barbara, Luffy,

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe last read 2/2015, 209 pp., pub 1958
Nominated by Kimberly: Sam, Carolien,

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883), 311 pages, last read 2011
Nominated by Paula W. : Bigollo, Shawn, Shawn, RY- Slayer of Trolls, Jen

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read in July 2015
Nominated by George P.: J_Blueflower, Darya Silman,

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Bigollo wrote: "I second Treasure Island"

SECOND

[Darya Silman]

I second Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

[Lori]

I’ll second The Great Gatsby

[Heather L]

Thanks, Lori!

[Kimberly]

Carolien also seconded Things Fall Apart.

[Jen]

I second Treasure Island by Stevenson.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Updated and corrected. This is our nominations list so far:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 180 pages, last read Jan 2015
Nominated by Heather L.: Lori,

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo pub.1862, 869 pages, Last read Oct. 2014 Nominated by J-Blueflower : Cynda, Jeffrey, Darren, Aik, Aprilleigh, Erin, Dave

Beowulf by Unknown (900) 160 pages, last read April 2015.
Nominated by Tom : Barbara, Luffy,

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) 209 pages, last read Feb. 2015
Nominated by Kimberly: Sam, Carolien,

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883), 311 pages, last read 2011
Nominated by Paula W. : Bigollo, Shawn, Shawn, RY- Slayer of Trolls, Jen

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read in July 2015
Nominated by George P.: J_Blueflower, Darya Silman,

[Chuck]

I second Beowolf

[EvenB]

I second Treasure Island.

[Lorraine]

I second Les misérables.

[William]

Lynn, are we still needing seconds or are these the six we're going to be voting on? If we do need seconding, I would vote for Things Fall Apart. By the way, Les Miserables is my favorite novel of all time, so you won't be going wrong by choosing that one!!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

William wrote: "Lynn, are we still needing seconds or are these the six we're going to be voting on? If we do need seconding, I would vote for Things Fall Apart. By the way, Les Miserables is my favorite novel of ..."

A book does need a second to advance to the polls.

[William]

Katy wrote: "William wrote: "Lynn, are we still needing seconds or are these the six we're going to be voting on? If we do need seconding, I would vote for Things Fall Apart. By the way, Les Miserables is my fa..."

Lynn, thank you. I'm still learning the rules.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Thanks Katy. Well we had an unusual situation with only six books nominated. I think it is a strong list and that six this month will be a good number. There seems to be a good amount of interest in these books. All six will be advancing.