For May 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 selected 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 March 16.

[Renata]

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

Rebecca
Little Women
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 46
⭐ Poll Candidate

Murder on the Orient Express (265p) - 2
⭐ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (496p) - 7
The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 3
⭐ A Brief History of Time (226p) - 4
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 2
⭐ Jane Eyre (532p) - 4
⭐ The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 5
⭐ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (206p) - 4
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448p) - 3
⭐ Pachinko (496p) - 7
The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 3
The Martian (384p) - 3
Lord of the Flies (182p)

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I nominate Murder on the Orient Express; 265 pages

[Andi]

I nominate A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, published 1943, 496 pages, last read 4/2020

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 283 pages, read in 2018.

[Adrienne]

I nominate A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

[spoko]

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

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Diary of a Young Girl

[Renata]

I nominate Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (532p)

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. First published in 1985, 314 pages. Last read May 2019.

[Renata]

I second The Handmaid's Tale

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second The Handmaids Tale.

[Rachel]

I nominate The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis-206 pgs

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Shaina]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[Sandra]

I nominate The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Sandra]

I second Murder on the Orient Express and Jane Eyre

[Toni]

I second Jane Eyre

[Kim (alwaysadelaidesmom)]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Jane Eyre, the Handmaid's Tale and the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Leah]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Tiffany]

I second a brief history of time

[Andi]

I second:
Brief History of Time
Jane Eyre
Lion Witch and Wardrobe

[Abbie]

I nominate Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 496 pages, last read November 2018

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Pachinko

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Pachinko

[JoJo_theDodo]

I nominate The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107

[spoko]

I second Pachinko.

[fleurette]

I second Murder on the Orient Express, A Brief History of Time and The Catcher in the Rye.

[Tori]

I nominate The Martian 384 pages

[spoko]

I second The Martian.

[Sandra]

I second The Martian

[Rae]

I second The Catcher in the Rye.

[Robin]

I second Pachinko.

[Wobbley]

I second The Martian and The Diary of a Young Girl.

[Pony]

I second:
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Nickel Boys
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Pachinko
The Catcher in the Rye

[Pony]

I nominate Lord of the Flies (182 pages).

[Abe]

I second The Handmaid’s Tale and The Nickel Boys

[Linda]

I second The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[Chuck]

I second A Brief History of Time

[Bettejean]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Kim]

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

[Zeljka]

I second The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and also Lord of the flies - DNF the first time, maybe now I am ready?

[Miri]

I second Pachinko.

[Estefanía]

I second Pachinko and The Handmaid’s Tale.

[spoko]

Thanks everyone—nominations are now closed, and the polls are open! Help us pick the next Catch-Up read by casting your vote here.