For June 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 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 April 16

[Renata]

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

The Handmaid's Tale
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 53
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 6
The Great Gatsby (180p) - 3
Station Eleven (333p) - 4
⭐The Secret Garden (331p) - 7
Good Omens (491p) - 5
Circe (393p) - 1
⭐A Study in Scarlet (123p) - 7
Gone Girl (415p) - 1
⭐Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (258p) - 7
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 4
The Hobbit (366p) - 4
A Man Called Ove (337p) - 1

[Valerie Book Valkyrie]

I'd like to nominate
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
462pgs

[JoJo_theDodo]

I'd like to nominate Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

[Abe]

I'd like to nominate The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 180p

[Rae]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Renata]

JoJo_theDoDo wrote: "I'd like to nominate Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr"

Hi JoJo. Your book sounds interesting, but would be better nominated in the Modern topic. This is the bookshelf catch-up selection.

[Renata]

I nominate Station Eleven, 333 pages.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Great Gatsby

[Pony]

I nominate The Secret Garden (331 pages).

[Pony]

I second The Great Gatsby.

[Andi]

I second:
The Great Gatsby
The Secret Garden

[Andi]

I nominate Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, 491 pages

[Rachel]

I nominate Circe by Madeline Miller- 393 pages

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Circe.

[Nicole]

I nominate A Study in Scarlet by Aurthur Conan Doyle - 123 pages

[Renata]

I second a Study in Scarlet.

[Abe]

I second a Study in Scarlet.

[Pony]

I also second A Study in Scarlet.

[spoko]

I second A Study in Scarlet.

[Sandra]

I second a Study in Scarlet and Station Eleven

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

I second Good Omens.

[Pony]

I second Gone Girl.

[Sarah]

Secret garden

[Sandra]

I nominate Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 258 pages

[Pony]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Last read December 2018. 406 pages

[Kimberly]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1.

[Pony]

I second The Thirteenth Tale!

[Shaina]

I second Do Androids...

[fleurette]

I second The Secret Garden, Good Omens and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Abe]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Christy]

I second Station Eleven, A Study in Scarlett, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

[Kim (alwaysadelaidesmom)]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Toni]

I second Good Omens and Thirteenth Tale

[Theresa]

I second the Thirteenth Tale

[Michelle]

I second a Gentleman in Moscow

[Kevin G]

I nominate The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (366p).

[Pony]

I second The Hobbit.

[Ashleigh]

Sandra wrote: "I nominate Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 258 pages"

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

[Lina]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow, Station Eleven, The Secret Garden, A Study in Scarlet and The Thirteenth Tale. Thanks!

[Pamela]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Jan]

I second Good Omens

[Jan]

I second the Secret Garden

[Chuck]

I second Station Eleven

[Lisa]

I nominate A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. 337 pages.

[Zeljka]

I second The Hobbit

[Pony]

I second A Man Called Ove.

[Lisa]

I second The Secret Garden and Good Omens