For September 2025 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for September 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 July 16

[Renata]

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

The Alchemist
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 48
🌞Poll Candidate

🌞The Goldfinch (771p) - 5
The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 3
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 3
The Vanishing Half (343p) - 4
Watership Down (478p) - 3
A Brief History of Time (212p) - 2
The Awakening (195p) - 1
🌞Sense and Sensibility (409p) - 6
🌞Small Great Things (510p) - 6
1Q84 (944p) - 2
Memoirs of a Geisha (434p)
Project Hail Mary (476p) - 3
🌞The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 6
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (263p) - 3
The Hunger Games (374p) - 1

[Miriam]

I nominate The Goldfinch, 771 pages.

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Catcher in the Rye

[spoko]

I second The Goldfinch.

[Pony]

I nominate Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (403 pages; last read 2019).

[Miriam]

I second the Catcher in the Rye.

[Lindsay]

I second The Goldfinch and Catcher in the Rye

[Rae]

I nominate The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 343 pages

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

[Ali]

I nominate Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages, last read in 2020

I second The Vanishing Half

[Andi]

I nominate Stephen Hawking's a Brief History of Time: A Reader's Companion, 212 pages, last read in 2018.

[Rora]

I second The Vanishing Half

[Balin]

The Awakening

[Lidik]

Second A Brief History of Time as well as The Awakening

[Renata]

I nominate Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 409 pages.

I second The Goldfinch and Brief History of Time.

[Wobbley]

I second watership down

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Sense and Sensibility.

[Zeljka]

I second:
- The Goldfinch
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Vanishing Half

[Zeljka]

I nominate Small Great Things, 510 pages

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Small Great Things.

[Zachary]

I nominate Goldfinch and second Watership Down.

[Pony]

I second Sense and Sensibility.

[Sandra]

I second The Vanishing Half

[Noek]

I second the catcher in the rye

[Theresa]

I nominate IQ84 by Haruki Murakami, 944p.

I second Small Great Things

[Kimberly]

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

First published in 1997.
434 pages.

Last read by this group in June 2016

[Sandra]

I nominate Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 476 pages

[spoko]

I second Project Hail Mary.

[Elina]

I nominate The Joy Luck Club, 288pages

[Nike]

I nominate Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. 263 pages.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Joy Luck Club.

[Miriam]

I second Perfume.

[Pony]

I second The Joy Luck Club.

[Jan]

I second Sense and Sensibility

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[Miriam]

I second The Hunger Games

[fleurette]

I second
Project Hail Mary
Crazy Rich Asians
Sense and Sensibility

[Noek]

i second sense and sensibility

[Elizabeth]

I second the joy luck club

[Dana]

I second Sense and Sensibility and Perfume: The Story of a Murder

[Ali]

I second: Project Hail Mary, The Joy Luck Club, and Perfume

[Andi]

I second:
1Q84
Small Great Things
Joy Luck Club

[Megan]

I second Small Great Things.

[Robin]

I second Watership Down.

[aliciav]

I second Small Great Things.

[Linda]

I second Small Great Things and Joy Luck Club

[Tiffany]

I second 1q84

[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.