For February 2025 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for February 2025 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 December 16

[Renata]

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

Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret Garden
The Handmaid's Tale
Rebecca
Little Women

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 50
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (244p) - 9
In Cold Blood (343p) - 3
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 3
Little Fires Everywhere (336p) - 5
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (272p) - 2
⭐The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 9
The Vanishing Half (343p) - 4
A Court of Thorns and Roses (419p) - 3
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 6
⭐Neverwhere (370p) - 7
The Time Traveller's Wife (518p) - 2
Crime and Punishment (671p) - 2

[Kimberly]

I nominate Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Last read in 2020.

244 pages.

[Estefanía]

I nominate In Cold Blood.

[Renata]

I nominate A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 372 pages.

[Ali]

I nominate Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, last read in 2018, 336 pages.

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Pony]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Sandra]

I second Cold blood, Little Fires Everywhere and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Zeljka]

I second Little Fires everywhere and In cold Blood

[Zeljka]

I nominate The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 272 pages

[Linda]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Shaina]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Andi]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield last read 12/2018, 406 pages

[Rae]

I nominate The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, last read in 2021, 343 pages

[Wobbley]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Pony]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Pony]

I nominate A Court of Thorns and Roses (last read 2022; 419 pages).

[Renata]

I second A Court of Thorns & Roses

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Little Fires Everywhere, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, A Court of Thorns and Roses

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Nike]

I nominate Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 370 pages

[Pony]

I second Neverwhere.

[Melodi]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns & The vanishing half

[Sandra]

I second Neverwhere and Ready Player One

[Patrycja]

I second ‘Do Androids Dream of Sheep?’

[Isabel]

I nominate The Tattooist of Auschwitz!
I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep :)

[fleurette]

I second Ready Player One, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Neverwhere

[Linda]

I second Never where and Ready Player One

[Caroline]

I second A Court of Thorns and Roses 🌹

[Chuck]

I second In Cold Blood and The Vanishing Half

[Robin]

I second Little Fires Everywhere and Neverwhere.

[Kristen]

I second The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - 406 pages

[Panda]

I nominate The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Published January 1, 2003
Last read in group 2023
518 pages, hardcover
17 hours 38 minutes, audiobook


I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Ali]

I second The Thirteenth Tale and The Vanishing Half

[Pony]

I second The Time Traveller's Wife.

[Renata]

I second Time Traveller's Wife

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One and Neverwhere

[Ju]

I nominate Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyesvky

[Pony]

I second Crime and Punishment.

[Andy]

I second Crime and Punishment.

[Agnė]

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Jenna]

I second In Cold Blood.

[Toni]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[Jasmin]

I second Ready Player One

[Zeljka]

I second The Vanishing Half

[aliciav]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Christy]

I second Neverwhere and The Thirteenth Tale.

[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.