For December 2024 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 46
⭐ Poll Candidate

Giovanni’s Room (224p) - 4
A Brief History of Time (226p) - 3
⭐Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 6
⭐A Christmas Carol (184p) - 9
⭐The Jungle Book (277p) - 6
The Nightingale (564p) - 4
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 7
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 2
⭐The Unbearable Lightness of Being (314p) - 6
Fahrenheit 451 (194p) - 2
The Song of Achilles (408p) - 4
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (309p) - 1
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (401p) - 2

[Sophie]

I nominate Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (159 pages).

[Adrienne]

I nominate A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (226 pages)

[Kimberly]

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

[Pony]

I nominate A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (last read in 2020; 184 pages).

[Laura]

I second A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[Renata]

I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, 277 pages.

[Pony]

I second The Jungle Book.

[Jessica P]

I nominate the nightingale by Kristin Hannah 564 pages

[Shaina]

I second Giovanni's Room and The Nightingale

[Pony]

I second The Nightingale.

[Cynthia]

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

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Zeljka]

I nominate Crazy Rich Asians (403 pages)

[Aleksandra]

I nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (314 pages). I second A Christmas Carol and The Jungle Book.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I second Ready Player One

[Andi]

I second:
A Brief History of Time
A Christmas Carol
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Sandra]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, and the nightingale

[Renata]

I second Brief History of Time and Astrophysics.

[Kathy]

I second:
A Christmas Carol
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second A Christmas Carol.

[Laura]

I second Fahrenheit 451

[Tiffany]

I second astrophysics for people in a hurry

[Lisa]

I second A Christmas Carol

[Kim (alwaysadelaidesmom)]

I second The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Pamela]

I second A Christmas Carol

[Roevardotter]

I second Giovannis Room and Ready player One

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One, Crazy Rich Asians and The Jungle Book

[Laura H L]

I nominate The Song of Achilles, 408 pages

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One.

[Ali]

I second:
The Nightingale
Crazy Rich Asians
The Jungle Book
A Christmas Carol
Fahrenheit 451
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Giovanni's Room

[Pony]

I second The Song of Achilles.

[Christy]

I second The Jungle Book and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[Nike]

I nominate Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. 309 pages

[Tina]

I second "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".

[Wobbley]

I second Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

[Samantha]

I second Ready Player One and The Song of Achilles

I nominate Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

[Skittles]

I second Giovanni's Room

[Janice]

I second A Christmas Carol

[Linda]

i second The Jungle Book

[Chuck]

I second Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Song of Achilles, A Brief History of Time, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Zeljka]

I second:
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Abe]

I second:
Ready Player One
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.