For September 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

Never Let Me Go
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 42
⭐ Poll Candidate

And Then There Were None (264p) - 5
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 8
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (320p) - 1
⭐Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 6
⭐Pachinko (496p) - 11
Where the Crawdads Sing (384p) - 4
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 7
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 4
A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 5
The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 1

[Adrienne]

I nominate And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
264 pages
Last read 2019

[Theresa]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, 406p, last read 2018.

[Pony]

I second And Then There Were None and I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Pony]

I nominate Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (329 pages; last read 2022).

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Kimberly]

I nominate Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Last read March 2018, 223 pages.

[Pony]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Renata]

I nominate Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 496 pages.

I second Astrophysics.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second And Then There Were None & Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Pony]

I second Pachinko.

[Miri]

I nominate Where the Crawdads Sing and I second Pachinko.

[Abe]

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

I second And Then There Were None and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[spoko]

I second Pachinko.

[Rachel]

I second And Then There Were None

[Zeljka]

I nominate Crazy Rich Asians, 403 p

[Andi]

I second:
Ready Player One
The Thirteenth Tale
Pachinko

[Ali]

I second:
Where the Crawdads Sing
Pachinko
The Thirteenth Tale
Crazy Rich Asians

[Squire]

A second for Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Christy]

I second the Thirteenth Tale and Pachinko

[Aishwarya]

I nominate A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (462 pages, Read in 2022)

[Pony]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Rachel]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One

[Sandra]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow and Ready Player One

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

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

I second Where the Crawdads Sing and Ready Player One

[Rae]

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

[Pony]

I second Diary of a Young Girl.

[Martina]

I second Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

[Nike]

I second Where the Crawdads Sing

[Elizabeth]

I second pachinko

[Linda]

I second And Then There Were None and Where the Crawdads Sing

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One, The Thirteenth Tale and Crazy Rich Asians

[Valerie Book Valkyrie]

Hi, I second Ready Player One

[Lina]

I second The Thirteenth Tale, Pachinko, Crazy Rich Asians and A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Pamela]

I second Pachinko and A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Estefanía]

I second Pachinko.

[Kim]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Robin]

I second Pachinko and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[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.