For August 2025 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

Northanger Abbey
And Then There Were None
The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 50
🌈Poll Candidate

Love in the Time of Cholera (348p) - 3
The Color Purple (287p) - 3
Catch-22 (453p) - 1
🌈The Hunger Games (374p) - 4
American Gods (635p) - 2
🌈The Alchemist (182p) - 6
The Starless Sea (498p) - 3
🌈The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 5
Water for Elephants (368p) - 3
A Tale of Two Cities (489p) - 3
🌈Ready Player One (480p) - 5
🌈The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 4
Life of Pi (460) - 2

[Rora]

I nominate Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 348 pages

[Pony]

I nominate The Color Purple by Alice Walker (last read 2020; 287 pages).

[Renata]

I second Love in the Time of Cholera

[Kimberly]

I nominate Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Last read May 2021.
453 pages

[Miriam]

I nominate The Hunger Games, 374 pages.

[Renata]

I nominate American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 635 pages.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Hunger Games.

[Rae]

I nominate The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 182 pages

[spoko]

I second The Color Purple.

[Renata]

I second The Alchemist.

[Pony]

I second The Alchemist.

[Nike]

I nominate The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

[Sandra]

I second American Gods

[Pony]

I second The Starless Sea.

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Catcher in the Rye byJ.D. Salinger
277 pages

[Zeljka]

I nominate Water for Elephants - 368 pages

[Zeljka]

I second:
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- The Color Purple
- American Gods

[Miriam]

I absolutely second The Catcher in The Rye!!

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Water for Elephants.

[Andi]

I nominate A Tale of Two Cities 489 pages

[Pony]

I second A Tale of Two Cities.

[Tiffany]

I second the alchemist

[Noek]

I second water for elephants

[Sandra]

I second A Tale of Two Cities and The Catcher in The Rye

[Lindsay]

I second Catcher in the rye and A Tale of Two Cities

[Theresa]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 480p.

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Megan]

I second The Alchemist.

[Wobbley]

I second The Starless Sea.

[Sandra]

I second Ready Player One.

[fleurette]

I second
Ready Player One
The Catcher in the Rye

[Elina]

I nominate The Joy luck Club, 288p

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

[Pony]

I also second The Joy Luck Club.

[Elina]

I second The catcher in the Rye

[Ali]

I second Catch-22, The Hunger Games, and The Joy Luck Club

[aliciav]

I second The Hunger Games

[Linda]

I second The Starless Sea

[Valerie Book Valkyrie-on Holiday Semi-Hiatus]

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

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

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

I second The Hunger Games and Ready Player One

[Diana S]

The Joy Luck Club

[Renata]

I second Life of Pi.

[Elina]

I second The Color purple

[Linda]

I second Life of Pi

[rochelle]

Another vote for Love In The Time of Cholera

[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.