For January 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for January 2024 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 November 16.

[Renata]

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

The Song of Achilles
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 51
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

The Night Circus (400p) - 3
⭐ The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 5
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448p) - 4
⭐ Neverwhere (370p) - 8
Atonement (351p) - 4
⭐ Little Women (449p) - 9
The Martian (384p) - 4
Siddhartha (152p) - 1
Brave New World (268p) - 3
Circe (393p) - 1
⭐ Ready Player One (374p) - 7
The Color Purple (304p) - 2
The Underground Railroad (322p) - 2
The Hobbit (366p) - 1
Water for Elephants (368p)

[Linda]

I nominate The Night Circus--400 pages

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I nominate The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune. 394 pages.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Night Circus.

[Ashleigh]

I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 275 pages

[Sandra]

I nominate The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 448 pages

[Andi]

I nominate Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - last read 2/2017, 370 pages

[Sandra]

I second The House in the Cerulean Sea and Neverwhere

[Jessica P]

I nominate Atonement by Ian McEwan - 351 pages

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Atonement

[Wobbley]

I nominate Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. 449 pages, published 1867. Last read 02/2020.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Little Women

[Renata]

Ashleigh wrote: "I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 275 pages"

Ashleigh, this book is on our exclusion list (msg. 2 above). Is there another book you'd like to suggest instead?

[spoko]

I nominate Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (152 p., pub. 1922), last read March 2022.

[Renata]

I nominate Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 268p.

[Sandra]

I second The Martian

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Martian

[Wobbley]

I second The Martian.

[Theresa]

I second Neverwhere

[Rachel]

I nominate Circe by Madeline Miller- 393 pgs

I second Neverwhere and Little Women

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 374 pages.

I second The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Little Women.

[Andi]

I second:
Little Women
Brave New World
Ready Player One

[Jan]

I second Little Women

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Ready Player One

[Adrienne]

I second Circe, Ready Player One, and Brave New World

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One!

[Ian]

I second Ready Player One

[Abbie]

I nominate The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 304 pages, last read September 2020

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second the Night Circus

[Renata]

I second Neverwhere.

[Shaina]

I second Neverwhere

[Aleksandra]

I nominate The Underground Railroad 322 pages and I second The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Toni]

I second the color purple and Underground Railroad

[Kim (alwaysadelaidesmom)]

I second Atonement.

[Janice]

I would like to second The House in the Cerulean Sea, Little Woman, and The Invisibile Life of Addie LaRue.

[Renata]

Kimberly nominated The Hobbit, 366 pages. The suggestion was submitted in the Modern topic.

[Zeljka]

I nominate Water for Elephants, 368 pages

[Jessica]

I second The Hobbit

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I second Siddhartha & Underground Railroad

[fleurette]

I second Neverwhere, The Martian, Ready Player One and The House in the Cerulean Sea.

[Abby]

I second the Color Purple!

[Nici]

I second Little Woman and The Invisibile Life of Addie LaRue.

[Robin]

I second Neverwhere and Atonement.

[Diana]

I second
Ready player one
Never where
The house in the cerulean sea

[Aesaan]

I second Neverwhere

[Abbie]

I second Atonement, Brave New World, and Little Women

[Renata]

Thanks to everyone for these great nominations, which are now closed, but polls are open here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...