For October 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

Pachinko
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 38
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐Of Mice and Men (107p) - 5
A Court of Thorns and Roses (419p) - 4
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 8
⭐A Brief History of Time (226p) - 5
Life of Pi (460p) - 3
⭐Jane Eyre (532p) - 6
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 7
Water for Elephants (368p) - 1
The Jungle Book (277p) - 3

[Kimberly]

I nominate Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. First published in 1937. 107 pages. Last read July 2021.

[Pony]

I second Of Mice and Men.

[Pony]

I nominate A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. 419 pages, last read in November 2022. Everyone keeps talking about it and I think it's high time I read it.

[Renata]

I second A Court of Thorns & Roses.

[Theresa]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, 406 p

[Adrienne]

I nominate A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 226 pages. Last read 2018

[Renata]

I nominate Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 460 pages, last read 2017.

I second Brief History of Time.

[Pony]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Pamela]

I second Of Mice and Men

[Sophie]

I nominate Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (532 pages)

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second A Court of Thorns and Roses & A Brief History of Time.

[Sandra]

I second Of Mice and Men and Jane Eyre

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

I second A Court of Thorns and Roses, Life of Pi and Jane Eyre

[Ali]

I second Life of Pi, Of Mice and Men, and The Thirtenth Tale.

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Zeljka]

I second Jane Eyre

I nominate Water for Elephants

[Wobbley]

I second Water for Elephants

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Andi]

I Second:
The Thirteenth Tale
Jane Eyre
Ready Player One

[Tiffany]

I second a brief history of time

[Abe]

I second:
Of Mice and Men
A Brief History of Time
Ready Player One

[Carrie]

I second Ready Player One

[Christy]

I nominate The Jungle Book

[Pony]

I second The Junge Book.

[Renata]

I second Jungle Book.

[Squire]

I second Jane Eyre. It's time I read that one. (Everyone else has read it; My turn!)

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One, A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Thirteenth Tale

[Elizabeth]

I second a brief history of time

[Si bookish]

I second Jane Eyre.

[Kim]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Toni]

Second Jungle Book and Thirteen Tale

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One

[Kristen]

The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - please!

[Lisa]

I second Ready Player One

[Chuck]

I second Life of Pi

[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.