For June 2023 — Classics (1969 & before)

[Tori]

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

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

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]

Tracking through message: 44
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐Things Fall Apart (209p) - 8
⭐Little House on the Prairie (335p) - 6
The Collector (283p) - 1
A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 3
Daddy-Long-Legs (249p) - 3
⭐The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (327p) - 3
⭐A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (329p) - 6
⭐The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 9
The Talented Mr. Ripley (288p) - 4
⭐The Island of Dr. Moreau (160p) - 7

[Lina]

I would like to again nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

[Adrienne]

I nominate Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935
335 pages

[Renata]

I nominate The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages.

[Lindsay]

I second Little House on the Prarie

[Tori]

I nominate A Farewell to Arms (293p) by Ernest Hemmingway

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster, 249 pages

[spoko]

I nominate The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (510 p., pub. 1831).

[Red]

I nominate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (327 pages) by Mark Twain and second the following:
- Things Fall Apart
- The Collector

[Jan]

I second little House on the Prairie

[Wobbley]

I nominate A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. 329 pages, published 1916.

[Renata]

I second The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

[Red]

I second A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Laura H L]

I second Portrait of the Artist as a young Man.

[Tori]

I second The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

[Lindsay]

I second The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[Andi]

I nominate Hound of the Basker Villes Paperback by Arthur Conan Doyle, published 1901, 256 pages

[Andi]

I second Hunchbak of Notre- Dame

[Renata]

I second Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Toni]

I second the hound of baskersfield

[Rachel]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Kimberly]

I second A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Things Fall Apart, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Shaina]

I second The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Little House on the Prairie

[Theresa]

I second The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Things Fall Apart, and A Farewell To Arms.

[fleurette]

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

[Sandra]

I second daddy-long-legs

[Lea]

I second Little House on the Prairie, A Farewell to Arms, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Chuck]

I second A Farewell to Arms and Things Fall Apart

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Little House, Things Fall Apart, and Hunchback

[Kevin G]

I nominate The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (160 pages).

I second Things Fall Apart.

[Rae]

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau.

[Lea]

I second Things fall apart

[Roevardotter]

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau

[Jan]

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau

[Lina]

I second The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Island of Dr. Moreau.

[Linda]

I second Daddy-Long-Legs and Hound of the Baskervilles

[Robin]

I second Things Fall Apart and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

[Andi]

I second the Island of Dr. Moreau

[Kimberly]

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau

[Janice]

I would like to second Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.

[Lillian]

I second A Portrait of a Young Artist as a Young Man

[Adrienne]

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau

[Tiffany]

I second the hound of the Baskervilles