For September 2023 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for September 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 July 16.

[Renata]

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

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 39
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

⭐ Station Eleven (245p) - 4
⭐ Piranesi (245p) - 4
⭐ The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 4
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 3
⭐ The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 8
Flowers for Algernon (216p) - 3
⭐ Love in the Time of Cholera (348p) - 4
Their Eyes Were Watching God (238p) - 2
Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 3
⭐ Emma (474p) - 5

[Lina]

I would like to nominate Station Eleven (333 pages).

[Poetic Soul]

I nominate Piranesi (245 pages).

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl (283 pages)

[Renata]

I nominate Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (223p).

[Theresa]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale (406 pages)

[Wobbley]

I nominate Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. 216 pages.

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate Love in the Time of Cholera 348 pages

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Station 11 and Diary of a Young Girl

[Renata]

I second Love in the Time of Cholera.

[Kimberly]

I second:

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Thirteenth Tale

[Rachel]

I nominate Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (238 pages)

[Kimberly]

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

[Wobbley]

I second Piranesi, The Diary of a Young Girl, and The Thirteenth Tale.

[spoko]

I second Their Eyes Were Watching God.

[Adrienne]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Pamela]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Love in the Time of Cholera

[Tori]

I second Love in the Time of Cholera and Memoirs of a Geisha

[Linda]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha and The Thirteenth Tale

[Chuck]

I second Station Eleven

[fleurette]

I second Flowers for Algernon

[Tiffany]

I second the thirteenth tale

[Roevardotter]

I second Piranesi

[Si bookish]

I nominate Emma from Jane Austen (474 pages)

[Renata]

I second Their Eyes were Watching God and Emma.

[Wobbley]

I second Emma

[Toni]

I second Love in the Time of Cholera

[Rachel]

I second Emma

[Andi]

I second Emma
Diary of a Young Girl
and The Thirteenth Tale

[Kim]

I second The Thirteenth Tale and Diary of a Young Girl.

[Adrienne]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Ian]

I second Flowers for Algernon

[Gil-or (readingbooksinisrael)]

I second Station Eleven and Piranesi

[Rae]

I second Flowers for Algernon and The Thirteenth Tale.

[Miri]

I second Piranesi

[Toni]

I second Station Eleven

[Janice]

I would like to second Emma and The Thirteenth Tale.

[Renata]

Great suggestions, as usual! Thanks to all who participated. Although this topic is now closed, you can cast a vote for our next books here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...