October 2023 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Nominations for the October 2023 Revisit the Shelf book will open on August 1st, 2023.

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:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck September 2023
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells August 2023
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien July 2023
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville June 2023
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



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:

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1881)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

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

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 864 pages, last read Sept. 2015

[Klowey]

I second Don Quixote.

Another book on my to-read list. ;-)

[spoko]

I nominate Stoner by John Williams (288 p., pub. 1965). It was New School book of the month in January 2020.

[Julie]

I nominate The Odyssey - according to the group bookshelf it was read in 2016 :)

[Lynn, New School Classics]

spoko wrote: "I nominate Stoner by John Williams (288 p., pub. 1965). It was New School book of the month in January 2020."

I second Stoner. I bought a copy but time pressure kept me from reading it at the time. Perhaps this year.

[Heather L]

I nominate The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 326 pages, published in 1851, last read in 2018.

[Marilyn]

I nominate Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly.

[Wobbley]

I nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. 579 pages. Published 1859. It looks like we read it in 2018.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

spoko wrote: "I nominate Stoner by John Williams (288 p., pub. 1965). It was New School book of the month in January 2020."

SECOND

[sabagrey]

Wobbley wrote: "I nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. 579 pages. Published 1859. It looks like we read it in 2018."

Second.

[Dominik]

I nominate Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages, first published in 1958

[G.G]

I second The Odyssey

[George P.]

I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind which the group read in 2015.

[Kimberly]

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. 215 pages, first published in 1958. Last read by this group in 2015.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

George P. wrote: "I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind which the group read in 2015."

I second, I didn't read this with the group the first time around.

[Terry]

I will also second Perfume, The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind.

[J_BlueFlower]

Katy wrote: "George P. wrote: "I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind which the group read in 2015."

I second, I didn't read this with the group the first time around."

I second.

[Dave]

I second Stoner

[Sam]

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. 215 pages, first published in 1958. Last read by this group in 2015."

Seconded.

[Chuck]

I second Stoner

[Terris]

I second Stoner. It is SO good!!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

The nominations list is below. Please let my know if I need to make any changes.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read Sept. 2015
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Klowey,

Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 p., last read Jan. 2020.
Nominated by Spoko: Lynn, RJ - Slayer of Trolls, Chuck, Terris,

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read in July 2015
Nominated by George P.: Katy, Terry, J_Blueflower,

The Odyssey by Homer (800) 541 pages, last read August 2016
Nominated by Julie: G. G. ,

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 326 pages, last read in 2018.
Nominated by Heather L.:

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages, last read June 2018
Nominated by Wobbley: Sabagrey,

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

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (1958), 220 pages, last read Nov. 2020.
Nominated by Dominik:

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (1887) 92 pages, last read July 2018
Nominated by Marilyn:

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I fell asleep in the middle of this nomination update LOL. I will fix it in a couple of hours.

[Erin]

I second The Mill on the Floss

[Michaela]

I also second The Mill on the Floss.

[William]

I second The House of the Seven Gables. I last read it in high school. So I wouldn't mind re-visiting it.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 p., last read Jan. 2020.
Nominated by Spoko: Lynn, RJ - Slayer of Trolls, Chuck, Terris,

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read in July 2015
Nominated by George P.: Katy, Terry, J_Blueflower,

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 326 pages, last read in 2018.
Nominated by Heather L.: William

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages, last read June 2018
Nominated by Wobbley: Sabagrey, Erin, Michaela

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

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read Sept. 2015
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Klowey,

The Odyssey by Homer (800) 541 pages, last read August 2016
Nominated by Julie: G. G.

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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (1958), 220 pages, last read Nov. 2020.
Nominated by Dominik:

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (1887) 92 pages, last read July 2018
Nominated by Marilyn:

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thank you everyone for your participation. The books that will go the polls to read in the month of October are

Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 p., last read Jan. 2020.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read in July 2015

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 326 pages, last read in 2018.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860), 579 pages, last read June 2018

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

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read Sept. 2015

The Odyssey by Homer (800) 541 pages, last read August 2016