May 2023 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Nominations for the May 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:

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson April 2023
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


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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Beowulf by Unknown
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

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

[AiK]

I nominate Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Last read 2016

[Darya Silman]

I nominate The Plague by Albert Camus. Last read 2015

[Wobbley]

I nominate Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Looks like it was last read in 2012.

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015.

[sabagrey]

I second Agnes Grey.

[Michele]

I second Agnes Grey

[Tina]

Wobbley wrote: "I nominate Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Looks like it was last read in 2012."

I second it.

[Shannon SA]

I second Agnes Grey

[AiK]

Darya Silman wrote: "I nominate The Plague by Albert Camus. Last read 2015"

I second!

[AiK]

Sabagrey, Michelle, Shannon SA, thank you very much.

[Dave]

I second Out of Africa

[Kimberly]

I nominate Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. 418 pages. First published in 1782. Last read 5/2020.

[Dave]

I nominate Silas Mariner by George Eliot

[Michaela]

Guess you mean Silas Marner by George Eliot, Dave.

[Wobbley]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015."

This is a bold choice for a one month read! But what the heck, I'll bite. :)

I second Don Quixote.

[Klowey]

Wobbley wrote: "J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015."

This is a bold choice for a one month read! But what t..."

Well Ok then.
I second Don Quixote.

[Pat]

Happy you nominated it here, Dave. I second Silas Marner (262 pages, last read May 2018).

[J_BlueFlower]

Wobbley wrote: "J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015."

This is a bold choice for a one month read! But what the heck, I'll bite. :)"

Oh, the book doesn't taste that well. ;-) Thank you.

I have these three mega classics I have never read: Don Quixote, Les Miserables and Moby-Dick. I would much prefer to read them with the group.

Funny thing is that in my head they are all really, really long. I just looked up the word count:
Les Miserables 545,925 words
Don Quixote 345,390 words
Moby-Dick 209,117 words. Apparently Moby-Dick is not that long !?

Don Quixote correspond to 1151 normal pages (300 words per page). I read about 1000-1100 per month, so for me it is doable for me. Also I usually hang around the discussions of books I have read the month after the "official" month.

If any one would want to read and discus it at a slower pace that is fine with me. The treads are open year round.

[sabagrey]

I second Silas Marner

(there's indeed a GR entry for 'Silas Mariner', lol)

[Klowey]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Wobbley wrote: "J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015."

This is a bold choice for a one month ..."

We could always try a buddy read in May or June and give ourselves 3 months or so, and keep the discussion going. It's one of the books on my "before you die" list.

[J_BlueFlower]

Klowey wrote: "We could always try a buddy read in May or June and give ourselves 3 months or so, ..."

Whatever works. Lets first give it one or two chances here.

[Luffy Sempai]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Klowey wrote: "We could always try a buddy read in May or June and give ourselves 3 months or so, ..."

Whatever works. Lets first give it one or two chances here."

I agree. I've never read Don Quixote before.

[Wobbley]

Thanks Tina and Dave!

[Wobbley]

Klowey wrote: "We could always try a buddy read in May or June and give ourselves 3 months or so, and keep the discussion going."

Yes, if it doesn't win, I'd be up for doing Don Quixote as a buddy read over a longer period, like 3 months.

[Michaela]

sabagrey wrote: "I second Silas Marner

(there's indeed a GR entry for 'Silas Mariner', lol)"

Yes, I saw it lol. Btw you seconded two books. ;)

[Michaela]

I second Silas Marner.

[sabagrey]

Michaela wrote: "Yes, I saw it lol. Btw you seconded two books. ;) "

ooops ... sorry. 'lost in threads' syndrome, evidently.

[Shawn]

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. 418 pages. First published in 1782. Last read 5/2020."

I will second this one

[Janice]

I would like to second Agnes Grey.

[Dave]

Michaela wrote: "Guess you mean Silas Marner by George Eliot, Dave."

Yes, thanks for the correction.

[Paula W]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Last read July 2015."

Well, poop. There’s a reason this book has been sitting on my bookshelf looking at me for a few months. I second. This can totally be done in a month.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

sabagrey wrote: "Michaela wrote: "Yes, I saw it lol. Btw you seconded two books. ;) "

ooops ... sorry. 'lost in threads' syndrome, evidently."

LOL no worries. We will sort it all out.

[Luffy Sempai]

I second Don Quixote.

[Klowey]

Luffy wrote: "I second Don Quixote."

I'm getting myself ready to fail at a BINGO blackout in order to add the Don to my May reading, should it win. :-)

[Luffy Sempai]

Klowey wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I second Don Quixote."

I'm getting myself ready to fail at a BINGO blackout in order to add the Don to my May reading, should it win. :-)"

Oh I'm in the dark as well, for I have yet to read DQ. Hope you enjoy reading the books in your BINGO challenge!

[Klowey]

Luffy wrote: "Klowey wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I second Don Quixote."

I'm getting myself ready to fail at a BINGO blackout in order to add the Don to my May reading, should it win. :-)"

Oh I'm in the d..."

I meant Don Quixote is so long, if I decide to read it this year, I will have to give up a few BINGO choices I'd need for a blackout.

But DQ is worth it since I haven't read it yet, and feel I'd want to do it in a group. :-)

[Cynda]

I need to reread. I second Don Quixote.

[Aprilleigh]

I'll second Silas Marner

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Sabagrey I am putting your nomination on Agnes Grey, but let me know if you would prefer something else.

[Greg]

I'll second Dangerous Liasons

[Lynn, New School Classics]

As always, let me know if there is something I need to correct or change. Our nominations list for May 2023 so far is:

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847), 251 pages , last read March 2016
Nominated by Aik: Sabagrey, Michelle, Shannon SA, Janice,

Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782) 418 pages, Last read May 2020.
Nominated by Kimberly: Shawn, Greg

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read Sept. 2015
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Wobbley, Klowey, Cynda, Luffy, Paula W.

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937) 401 pages, Last read 2012.
Nominated by Wobbley: Tina, Dave,

Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861) 262 pages, last read May 2018
Nominated by Dave: Pat, Michaela, Aprilleigh

The Plague by Albert Camus (1947) 308 pages, Last read June 2015
Nominated by Darya Silman: Ail,

(moved from the short story thread)
Summer by Edith Wharton (1917) 127 pages, last read Aug. 2018.
Nominated by Lynn: Jen

[Heather L]

I will second Summer.

[George P.]

Since I've read most of those nominated so far, I will nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Read in 2015.
Coming in a bit late, so remember that you are allowed to remove your second from one book and put it on another!

[Maider]

I second Summer

[Carolien]

I second Summer.

[Shaina]

I second Dangerous Liaisons

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I second Dangerous Liaisons

[sabagrey]

Lynn wrote: "Sabagrey I am putting your nomination on Agnes Grey, but let me know if you would prefer something else."

it's ok! thank you!

[Kimberly]

I second Summer