For April 2025 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 55
♥️Poll Candidate

♥️The Princess Bride (429p) - 10
The Hobbit (366p) - 2
Great Expectations (544p) - 2
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 4
♥️The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 7
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
♥️The Picture of Dorian Gray (253p) - 7
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (112p) - 5
♥️The Vanishing Half (343p) - 6
Small Great Things (480p) - 2
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 3
Ready Player One (480p) - 5

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Princess Bride by William Goldman
429 pages, last read 2019

[Kristen]

I second The Princess Bride - this has been on my TBR for far too long!

[Pony]

I also second The Princess Bride.

[Renata]

I nominate The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien, 366 pages.

[Tiffany]

I nominate Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 544 pages, last read 2023

[Kimberly]

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

210 pages

[Pony]

I nominate The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (394 pages).

[Pony]

I second The Hobbit.

[Renata]

I second Astrophysics.

[Zeljka]

I nominate Lord of the Flies - 182 pages

[Adrienne]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Pony]

I second Lord of the Flies.

[aliciav]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Sophie]

I nominate The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (253 pages).

[Rae]

I nominate 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, by Jules Verne 410 pages, last read 2021

I second The Princess Bride

[Ali]

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

I second The Princess Bride, The Hobbit, and The Lord of Flies.

[Zeljka]

I second The vanishing half

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Princess Bride.

[Pony]

I second The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Wobbley]

I second the Princess Bride

[Sandra]

I second The vanishing half and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[spoko]

I second The Vanishing Half.

[Adrienne]

I second 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels and The Vanishing Half

[Zeljka]

I second:
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The House in the Cerulean Sea

[Jan]

I second the Princess Bride

[Theresa]

I nominate Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult, 480p, last read Jan 2017

[Renata]

I second Small Great Things.

[Zeljka]

I second Small great things

[Pamela]

I second The House in the Cerulean Sea

[1b2gmama]

I second The Vanishing Half.

[Kim]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale, 406p

[Pony]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Valerie Book Valkyrie]

Here's a second for The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Wobbley]

I second The Thirteenth Tale

[fleurette]

I second The House in the Cerulean Sea

[Elizabeth]

I second the vanishing half

[Alejandro]

I second The Princess Bride and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

[Linda]

I second The House In the Cerulian Sea

[Kimberly]

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

[Irene2160]

I second the Princess Bride

[Tina]

I second The Princess Bride, Great Expectations and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

I second The House in the Cerulean Sea

[Valerie Book Valkyrie]

Here's a second for Ready Player One 🧚‍♀️🙋🏼

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[K]

I second:
Great Expectations
Lord of the Flies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

[Sandra]

I second Ready Player One.

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One