For November 2023 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Haunting of Hill House
Emma
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 40
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

Charlotte's Web (184p) - 1
⭐ The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 6
Where the Crawdads Sing (374p) - 2
I Am a Cat (480p) - 3
⭐ Jane Eyre (532p) - 4
Crime and Punishment (671p) - 2
⭐ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (216p) - 4
⭐ Memoirs of a Geisha (503p) - 7
The Martian (384p) - 3
⭐ Northanger Abbey (260p) - 6

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I nominate Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
184 pages

[Toni]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (p 406)

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, 374 pages

[Andi]

I second Charlotte's Web and The Thirteenth Tale

[Andi]

I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 5/15.

[Renata]

I nominate Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 532 pages.

[Toni]

I second Jane Eyre

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate Crime and Punishment, 671 pages

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Jane Eyre

[Rachel]

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

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Adrienne]

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
503 pages

[Sandra]

I second Jane Eyre

[Theresa]

I second I am a Cat

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Kimberly]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Pamela]

I second I Am a Cat and Crime and Punishment

[Tori]

I nominate The Martian (384p)

and second Memoirs of a Geisha

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Hitchhiker’s Guide and Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Wobbley]

I second The Martian

[Sandra]

I second The Martian

[fleurette]

I second The Martian and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Shaina]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha and I am a Cat

[Theresa]

Oh! I also second the Thirteenth Tale!

[Zeljka]

I nominate Northanger Abbey (260p)

[Jan]

I SECOND Northanger Abbey

[Robin]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Renata]

I second Northanger Abbey.

[Wobbley]

I second the Thirteenth Tale and Northanger Abbey

[Janice]

I also would like to second The Thirteenth Tale and Northanger Abbey. :)

[BeanSchnitzz]

Memoirs of a Geisha!

[Adrienne]

I second Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[Chuck]

I second Jane Eyre and Crime and Punishment

[Ian]

I second Northanger Abbey

[Linda]

I second Where the Crawdads Sing

[Miriam]

I second Where The Crawdads Sing

[Lina]

I second The Thirteenth Tale, Memoirs of a Geisha and Northanger Abbey

[Renata]

Thanks to everyone for participating in these nominations. Without you we wouldn't have a group! Nominations are now closed for November, but you can cast your vote in the polls, now open here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...