August 2024 Revisit the Shelf Nominations

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Nominations for the August 2024 Revisit the Shelf book will open on June 1st, 2024.

1. Only books currently on our group bookshelf are eligible: Group Bookshelf

Time Since Last Read. A book is only eligible for rereading if it has not been a group read in the last 12 months (1 year). A book read by the group in any of our reading categories in the past year is not eligible for nomination.

Below is a list of the past year's Revisit the Bookshelf winners. Please do not nominate any of these:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages, last read July 2024
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) 409 pages, last read June 2024
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 264 pages, Last read May 2024
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 272 pages, Last read April 2024
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read February and March 2024
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908) 320 pages, Last read Jan. 2024
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2023
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages, last Nov. 2023.
Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 p., last read Oct. 2023
East of Eden by John Steinbeck September 2023
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells August 2023

2. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

3. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.

4. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.

You may change a second from one book to another. Please state which book you originally seconded and which you would like to change to.

5. In the interest of variety, please wait a month to re-nominate a book that has been in the poll. Please do not nominate any of the books that were in our poll last month:

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Nominations will remain open until the 14th of the month. Polls will open on the 16th and run until the end of the month.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

We're open for business now!

[J_BlueFlower]

I would like to nominate Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 1952, 109 pp

Last read 2018/06/01

[EvenB]

I would like to nominate Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955, 368 pp

Last read 2017/05/01

[Kimberly]

I nominate Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. First published in 1842, 464 pages. Last read in May 2017.

[Heather L]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 1952, 109 pp

Last read 2018/06/01"


Second

[Ayush]

I nominate Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, 564pp.
Last read : 2019/06/30

[Dave]

I second Waiting for Godot

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I nominated The Praise of Folly by Erasmus (1511) 109 pages. It was a book I intended to read last year but ran out of time. It is available free online in English as a text (pdf) or also on YouTube as an audiobook.

[Kathryn]

Second Waiting for Godot, thanks.

[Siddharth]

I second Lolita, thanks.

[Wobbley]

I second The Praise of Folly

[Nike]

I too want to second Waiting for Godot.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thanks Wobbley and Nike. It's updated above.

[EvenB]

Siddharth wrote: "I second Lolita, thanks."

Thanks Siddharth!

[Nike]

Lynn wrote: "Thanks Wobbley and Nike. It's updated above."

I do believe their are a couple of more persons who have seconded Waiting for Godot further up on this page

[Cynda]

Seconding The Praise of Folly.

[AiK]

I second Dead Souls by Gogol

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Our nominations list so far is:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) 671 pages, last read as a Long-read April-June 2019
Nominated by Ayush:

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) 464 pages, Last read May 2017
Nominated by Kimberly: Aik, Tina

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 368 pages, Last read May 2017.
Nominated by EvenB: Siddarth, Chuck

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952) 109 pages, last read June 2018
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Kathryn, Nike, Heather L., Dave

The Praise of Folly by Erasmus (1511) 109 pages, Last read Feb 2023
Nominated by Lynn: Wobbley, Cynda

I think I have everyone's name now. Thanks Nike. Let me know if I need to change anything.

[Tina]

I second Dead Souls.

[Chuck]

I second Lolita

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thank you everyone for participating. All the books will go to the poll this month.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) 671 pages
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) 464 pages
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 368 pages
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952) 109 pages
The Praise of Folly by Erasmus (1511) 109 pages