For August 2023 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 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 June 16.

[Tori]

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

Slaughterhouse-Five
A Man Called Ove
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

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 34
⭐ Poll Candidate

The Phantom of the Opera (360p)
Life of Pi (460p) - 1
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 2
⭐The Thursday Murder Club (382p) - 7
⭐The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 7
⭐The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 8
Brave New World (268p) - 3
The Shining (659p)
⭐Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 4
The Time Traveler's Wife (537p)

[D.L.]

I nominate The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux which is 360 pages.

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 460 pages

[Renata]

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

[Toni]

I nominate The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman p382

I second Life of Pi

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

[Kimberly]

I nominate Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. First published 1932, 268 pages. Last read April 2019.

[Renata]

I second The Thursday Murder Club.

[Wobbley]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl

[Rachel]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

[Sandra]

I second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[Renata]

I second Brave New World.

[D.L.]

I second Diary of a Young Girl.

[Andi]

I second Diary of a Young Girl and Brave New World

[Andi]

I nominate The Shining by Stephen King last read 2017, 659 pages

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Thursday Murder Club, Seven Husbands, and Diary of a Young Girl.

[Débora]

I nominate Crazy Rich Asians, 403 pages
And I second The Thursday Murder Club

[Toni]

I second Crazy Rich Asians

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

[Kimberly]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

[Rae]

I second Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

[Pamela]

I second The Thursday Murder Club

[LittleRedRidingHood]

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

[Shaina]

I second The Thursday Murder Club

[Laura H L]

I second The Diary of a young girl

[Robin]

I second The Thursday Murder Club and The Diary of a Young Girl.

[Lina]

I second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Brave New World and Crazy Rich Asians.

[Linda]

I nominate The Time Traveler's Wife 537 pages

[Elle]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl.

[Janice]

I second The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Bettejean]

Second Thursday Murder Club