For June 2023 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2023 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

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 PST April 16.

[Tori]

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

The Sun Also Rises
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wuthering Heights
Murder on the Orient Express
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Bell Jar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 53
⭐ Poll Candidate

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 5
The Invisible Man (192p) - 3
Ready Player One (374p) - 4
⭐Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 9
⭐The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 6
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 3
⭐Never Let Me Go (288p) - 6
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (216p) - 5
The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 4
⭐A Man Called Ove (337p) - 6
⭐The Vanishing Half (343p) - 6
Peter Pan (176p) - 1

[Lina]

I nominate The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 389 pages

[Sandra]

I nominate The Invisible Man by Wells, H.G., 192 pages

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 374 pages

[Kimberly]

Lina wrote: "I nominate The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 389 pages"

I second this.

[Kimberly]

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. 434 pages. Last read June 2016.

[Lina]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Tori]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
277 pages

[Renata]

I nominate A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 372 pages.

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Lindsay]

I second The Catcher in the Rye

[Toni]

I nominate Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (p 288)

Second Memoirs of a Giesha

[Toni]

P 288

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 216 pages.

[Shaina]

I second Never Let Me Go and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Lindsay]

I second Hitchhiker

[spoko]

I second The Hitchhiker’s Guide.

[Red]

I nominate The Handmaid’s Tale (314 pages) by Margaret Atwood and second the following:
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- The Catcher in the Rye
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Renata]

I second The Handmaid's Tale.

[Andi]

I second The Catcher in the Rye

[Andi]

I nominate A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, last read 2018, 337 pages

[Red]

I second A Man Called Ove

[Rachel]

I second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[Kimberly]

I second The Handmaid's Tale.

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One and Never Let Me Go

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One, The Catcher in the Rye and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Sandra]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Chuck]

I second Never Let Me Go

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second A Man Called Ove

[Kevin G]

I nominate The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (343 pages).

I second:
Ready Player One
Memoirs of a Geisha

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second The Vanishing Half

[Red]

I also second The Vanishing Half.

[Rae]

I second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

[Roevardotter]

I second Never Let Me Go and Ready Player One

[Lina]

I also second The Catcher in the Rye, Never Let Me Go, A Man Called Ove and The Vanishing Half.

[Roevardotter]

i also second Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[Linda]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Robin]

I second Never Let Me Go and Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Chuck]

I second The Invisible Man

[Wobbley]

I second The Invisible Man

[Andi]

I second the Invisible Man

[Miri]

I second A Man Called Ove

[Tori]

I second The Vanishing Half

[Tokoro]

I'll nominate Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 176 pages, which I believe hasn't been read by this group since 2016. I'll second both Cather in the Rye and The Vanishing Half.

[Janice]

I would like to second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half

[Red]

I second Peter Pan

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Handmaid's Tale

[Pamela]

I second The Handmaid's Tale and A Man Called Ove.