For July 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 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 May 16

[Renata]

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

The Secret Garden
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 59
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (210p) - 9
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 3
⭐The Martian (384p) - 7
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 4
Water for Elephants (368p) - 1
⭐A Study in Scarlet (123p) - 7
Life of Pi (460p) - 3
⭐Ready Player One - 7
⭐The Thursday Murder Club (351p) - 7
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (151p) - 3
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406) - 8
The Princess Bride (429p) - 4

[Kimberly]

I nominate Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. First published 2017.

210 pages.
Last read March 2018.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Renata]

I second Astrophysics.

[spoko]

I nominate The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (213 p., pub. 2019), last read by the group Jan 2021.

[Wobbley]

I nominate The Martian by Andy Weir. 384 pages. Looks like it was last read by the group in 2016.

[Renata]

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

[Sandra]

I second The Martian and Astrophysics

[spoko]

I second The Martian.

[Zeljka]

I nominate Water for Elephants (368 pages).

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Tiffany]

I second the Martian

[Ali]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Adrienne]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Pony]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and The Nickel Boys.

[Pony]

I nominate A Study in Scarlet (123 pages).

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second A Study in Scarlet.

[spoko]

I second A Study in Scarlet.

[aliciav]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Water for Elephants.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I'd like to nominate Life of Pi by Yann Martel. First published 2001 and 460 pages.

[Renata]

I second Study in Scarlet and Life of Pi.

[Theresa]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (374 p)

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Sandra]

I second Ready Player One.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Ready Player One

[Toni]

I nominate The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman p351

[Pony]

I second The Thursday Murder Club!

[Renata]

I second the Thursday Murder Club.

[Linda]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns and Life of Pi

[Linda]

I nominate The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 154 pages

[Rachel]

I second The Thursday Murder Club

[Martina]

I second a study in scarlet

[Theresa]

Linda wrote: "I nominate The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 154 pages"

I know the rule is no repeats of re-reads in twelve months, and this wasn't a re-read, but we just read this in March. Should the rule be amended any book the group has read in the last twelve months?

[Christy]

I second the Thursday Murder Club, The Martian and A Study in Scarlet.

[Renata]

Theresa wrote: "Linda wrote: "I nominate The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 154 pages"

I know the rule is no repeats of re-reads in twelve months, and this wasn't a re-read, b..."

Let's leave it as is for now. A recently read book will likely not be selected for catch-up.

[Elizabeth]

I second The Thursday Murder Club

[Kim]

I nominate The Thirteen Tale by Diane Setterfield, 406pgs.

[Laura]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, The Nickel Boys & The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[Pony]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Pony]

I second The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

[Tina]

I second "The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

[Shaina]

I second Ready Player One

[Theresa]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[fleurette]

I second The Thursday Murder Club, The Martian and Ready Player One

[Robin]

I second Astrophysics.

[Chuck]

I second The Nickel Boys, Life of Pi, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[Rae]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Rachel]

I second The Thirteenth Tale