For August 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Thursday Murder Club
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 52
⭐ Poll Candidate

Anna Karenina (964p)
⭐ Never Let Me Go (288p) - 10
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 4
Brave New World (268p) - 5
⭐ Ready Player One (374p) - 7
⭐ The Joy Luck Club (352p) - 9
⭐ Jurassic Park (466p) - 8
Peter Pan (176p) - 6
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
Good Omens (491p) - 2

[Andi]

I nominate Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, last read 11/2018.

[Ali]

I nominate Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 288 pages, last read 01/2018.

[Abe]

I second Never Let Me Go

[Valerie Book Valkyrie]

I, too, second Never Let Me Go.

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. First published in 2006, 406 pages. Last read by this group in December 2018.

[Renata]

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

[Sandra]

I second Never Let me go

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

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

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Never Let Me Go and Ready Player One.

[aliciav]

I second Never Let Me Go.

[Rae]

I nominate The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 352 pages.

[Kimberly]

I second Brave New World

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Joy Luck Club.

[Tori]

I nominate Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 466 pages.

[Renata]

I second Jurassic Park.

[Sandra]

I second Ready Player One

[Le Cy]

I second The Joy Luck Club.

[Toni]

I second never let me go, the joy luck club, the thirteenth tale, and brave new world

[Ali]

I second Jurassic Park and The Joy Luck Club

[Pony]

I second:
Never Let Me Go
The Thirteenth Tale
Ready Player One
The Joy Luck Club
Jurassic Park

[Pony]

I nominate Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (176 pages).

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Peter Pan.

[Rachel]

I second Jurassic Park

[Andi]

I second:
Read Player One
Peter Pan
Joy Luck Club

[Adrienne]

I second Ready Player One and Jurassic Park

[Theresa]

I second the Thirteenth Tale and Ready Player One.

[Robin]

I second Never Let Me Go.

[Lisa]

I second Jurassic Park

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One and Brave New World

[Zeljka]

I nominate: Lord of the Flies (182 pages)

I second Peter Pan

[Martina]

I second Lord of the Flies

[Christy]

I second Never Let Me Go.

[Linda]

I second Peter Pan

[Kim]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Kim]

I nominate Klara and the Sun, 303 pgs.

[Renata]

Kim wrote: "I nominate Klara and the Sun, 303 pgs."

Kim, this is the Catch-Up topic and your book has not been previously read by this group. But you can nominate it in the Modern books topic instead.

[Elizabeth]

I second The Joy Luck Club

[Pony]

I second Lord of the Flies.

[Craig]

I second Brave New World, Jurassic Park, Peter Pan and Lord of the Flies

[Craig]

I nominate Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

[Melissa]

I second Jurassic Park

[Kim]

Oopsie. Thanks 😉

[Raquel]

I second Never Let me go and The Joy Luck Club

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Good Omens

[Lisa]

I second Jurassic Park

[Renata]

Lisa wrote: "I second Jurassic Park"

Already done in message 31.

[Pamela]

I second Good Omens