For December 2023 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 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 October 16.

[Tori]

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 38
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 11
⭐The Gift of the Magi (26p) - 4
Small Great Things (510p) - 4
⭐The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448p) - 4
⭐The Song of Achilles (408p) - 4
⭐The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (370p) - 6
Gone Girl (456p) - 1
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 2
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p)
Normal People (273p)

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. First published in 2006, last read December 2018. 406 pages

[Theresa]

I second the Thirteenth Tale

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I nominate The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. 26 pages. Last read 2016.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Zeljka]

I nominate Small Great Things (510 p)

[Sandra]

I nominate The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448 p)

[Toni]

I second Thirteenth Tale and Small Great Things

[Toni]

I nominate The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller p408

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Song of Achilles.

[Tokoro]

I'll nominate The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I'll second the O. Henry.

[Tokoro]

370 pages for Henrietta Lacks.

[Kim]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Wobbley]

I second Thirteenth Tale

[Andi]

I second Thirteenth Tale and Gift of the Magi

[Jan]

I second Gift of the Magi

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I second the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

[Theresa]

I second Small Great Things

[spoko]

I nominate The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (213 p., pub. 2019). Last read January, 2021.

[Renata]

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

[Katie]

I second The Song of Achilles

[Rachel]

I second The Thirteenth Tale and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

[Lina]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[fleurette]

I second The Thirteenth Tale and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

[Si bookish]

I second the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Lena]

I second 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue'

[Janice]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Jessica P]

I nominate normal people (273 pages)

[Débora]

I second The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

[Laura H L]

i second the Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks and Small Great Things

[Chuck]

I second:
The Song of Achilles
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Gone Girl
The Nickel Boys

[Pamela]

I second The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

[bella]

I second The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Song of Achilles

[Linda]

I second The Gift of the Magi

[Tiffany]

i second the thirteenth tale

[Abbie]

I second Small Great Things and Nickel Boys