June 2023 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, New School Classics]

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

Summer by Edith Wharton May 2023
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

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:

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847)
Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)
Summer by Edith Wharton (1917)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937)
The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)

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

[Piyangie]

I'd like to nominate The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, 393 pages. Last read in April 2020.

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville. Last read 2017/04/01

[Lori]

I would like to nominate The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
-last read Jan 2016
-366 pages

[Kimberly]

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Last read February 2015. First published in 1958, 209 pages.

[Wobbley]

I nominate Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Published 1962, 246 pages, last read 2019.

[Kimberly]

Wobbley wrote: "I nominate Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Published 1962, 246 pages, last read 2019."

I second this.

[Marilyn]

I nominate Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Published in 1922. Last read in 2016.

[Wobbley]

I second Siddhartha.

[Tina]

I nominate Heidi by Johanna Spyri.

[Heather L]

Tina wrote: "I nominate Heidi by Johanna Spyri."

Second!

[Darren]

I second The Hobbit

[Greg]

Wobbley wrote: "I nominate Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Published 1962, 246 pages, last read 2019."

I'll second Pale Fire

[Aprilleigh]

I nominate Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, last read by the group in 2013.

[Lori]

Darren wrote: "I second The Hobbit"

Yay! Thank you Darren!

[Mela]

I nominate Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, read by the group in 2011 (personally, I haven't read it yet).

[Kathleen]

I second the Mayor of Casterbridge.

[Alexw]

Mayor Of Casterbridge gets my vote.

[Piyangie]

Thanks, Kathleen and Alexw!

[EvenB]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville. Last read 2017/04/01"

I second Moby!

[Dave]

I second Moby-Dick or, the Whale

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Mela wrote: "I nominate Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, read by the group in 2011 (personally, I haven't read it yet)."

SECOND

[Terris]

I second Pale Fire.

[Klowey]

I second Pale Fire.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thanks for the nominations. We have quite a few and there are several that I have never put in a Revisit Nominations list before. Let me know if I need to change or correct, please.


The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1886) 393 pages, last read April 2020.
Nominated by Piyangie: Kathleen, Alexw,

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale by Herman Melville (1851) 653 pages, Last read April 2019 - June 2017
Nominated by J_Blueflower: EvenB, Dave,

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) 366 pages, last read Jan 2016.
Nominated by Lori: Darren,

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

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 246 pages, last read Aug 2019.
Nominated by Wobbley: Kimberly, Greg, Terris, Klowey

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) 122 pages, last read May 2016.
Nominated by Marilyn: Wobbley

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1881) 321 pp., last read Jan 2016
Nominated by Tina: Heather L,


Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (1935), pp. 302, last read April 2013
Nominated by Aprilleigh:

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 198 pages, last read Aug 2011.
Nominated by Mela: RJ_ the Slayer of Trolls,

[Paula W]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville. Last read 2017/04/01"

I second.

[Jen]

I second Things Fall Apart.

[Shannon SA]

I second Heidi

[Jane]

I second The Mayor of Casterbridge.

[Piyangie]

Jane wrote: "I second The Mayor of Casterbridge."

Thanks, Jane.

[Darya Silman]

I second Pale Fire (I obtained a free copy in Russian last week)

[Nike]

I second Things Fall Apart

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thanks for the nominations. We have quite a few and there are several that I have never put in a Revisit Nominations list before. Let me know if I need to change or correct, please.

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1886) 393 pages, last read April 2020.
Nominated by Piyangie: Kathleen, Alexw, Jane,

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale by Herman Melville (1851) 653 pages, Last read April 2019 - June 2017
Nominated by J_Blueflower: EvenB, Dave, Paula W.,

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) 366 pages, last read Jan 2016.
Nominated by Lori: Darren,

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

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 246 pages, last read Aug 2019.
Nominated by Wobbley: Kimberly, Greg, Terris, Klowey, Pale Fire,

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) 122 pages, last read May 2016.
Nominated by Marilyn: Wobbley

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1881) 321 pp., last read Jan 2016
Nominated by Tina: Heather L, ShannonSA

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (1935), pp. 302, last read April 2013
Nominated by Aprilleigh:

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 198 pages, last read Aug 2011.
Nominated by Mela: RJ_ the Slayer of Trolls,

[Wobbley]

Lynn, for Pale Fire, the 6th name should be "Darya Silman" rather than "Pale Fire". Thanks!

[Sam]

I second Things Fall Apart.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

I second The Hobbit

[Carolien]

I second Things fall apart.

[Michaela]

I second The Mayor of Casterbridge.

[Lori]

Yay! Thanks Katy! I’m reading The Hobbit whether the group does or not!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Wobbley wrote: "Lynn, for Pale Fire, the 6th name should be "Darya Silman" rather than "Pale Fire". Thanks!"

Thanks

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thanks for the nominations. We have quite a few and there are several that I have never put in a Revisit Nominations list before. Let me know if I need to change or correct, please.

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1886) 393 pages, last read April 2020.
Nominated by Piyangie: Kathleen, Alexw, Jane, Michaela,

Moby-Dick, or, the Whale by Herman Melville (1851) 653 pages, Last read April 2019 - June 2017
Nominated by J_Blueflower: EvenB, Dave, Paula W.,

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) 366 pages, last read Jan 2016.
Nominated by Lori: Darren, Katy

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

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) 246 pages, last read Aug 2019.
Nominated by Wobbley: Kimberly, Greg, Terris, Klowey, Darya Silman,

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) 122 pages, last read May 2016.
Nominated by Marilyn: Wobbley

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1881) 321 pp., last read Jan 2016
Nominated by Tina: Heather L, ShannonSA

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (1935), pp. 302, last read April 2013
Nominated by Aprilleigh: Matt,

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 198 pages, last read Aug 2011.
Nominated by Mela: RJ_ the Slayer of Trolls,

[Piyangie]

Michaela wrote: "I second The Mayor of Casterbridge."

Thanks, Michaela. :)

[ChaoticClock]

I second Siddhartha :)

[Lorraine]

I second Siddhartha.

[Oxford Comma]

I second the Mayor of Casterbridge.

[Piyangie]

Oxford Comma wrote: "I second the Mayor of Casterbridge."

Thanks!

[Simm]

I would like to second the Mayor of Casterbridge.

[Piyangie]

Simm wrote: "I would like to second the Mayor of Casterbridge."

Thanks, Simm.

[Irphen]

I second Siddartha, read it a couple of months ago and I'm curious to see what others think about it :-)

[Janice]

I would like to second Heidi.