For December 2025 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sense and Sensibility
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 54
🎃= Poll Candidate

Never Let Me Go (288p) - 4
Brave New World (268p) - 3
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 3
Kindred (288p) - 4
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 4
The Queen's Gambit (258p) - 3
1Q84 (944p) - 3
🎃To Kill a Mockingbird (323p) - 7
🎃Ready Player One (480p) - 7
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (269p) - 4
A Court of Thorns and Roses (419p) - 5
The Grapes of Wrath (496p) - 6
Rebecca (449p) - 2
🎃Little Fires Everywhere (338p) - 7
🎃A Christmas Carol (184p) - 7

[Job]

I nominate Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 288 pages

[Kristen]

I nominate Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 268 pages

[Ali]

I nominate The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, 213 pages, last read in 2021

[Cynthia]

I nominate Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, 288 pages.

[spoko]

I second The Nickel Boys and Kindred.

[Wobbley]

I second Never Let Me Go

[Pony]

I second:
Never Let Me Go
The Nickel Boys
Kindred

[Pony]

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

[Noek]

I nominate The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, 258 pages

[Sandra]

I second The Queen's Gambit, The Nickel Boys and Kindred

[Theresa]

I nominate IQ84 by Haruki Murakami (944p), last read May 2018

[Renata]

I nominate To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 323 pages.

[Sandra]

I second To kill a Mockingbird

[Sandra]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 480 pages

[Wobbley]

I second To Kill a Mickingbird

[Andi]

I second:
Brave New World
Crazy Rich Asians
1Q84

[Theresa]

I second Ready Player One

[Pony]

I also second Ready Player One.

[Miriam]

I second To Kill A Mockingbird

[Zeljka]

I second:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crazy Rich Asians
The Queen's Gambit

[Rae]

I nominate Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 269 pages

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, 419 pages.

I second Ready Player One

[Renata]

I second A Court of Thorns & Roses.

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 496 pages

[Pony]

I second Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and A Court of Thorns and Roses.

[Pony]

I second The Grapes of Wrath.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Grapes of Wrath.

[Sandra]

I second Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Grapes of Wrath

[Nelson]

I second A Court of Thorns & Roses

[Elina]

I nominate Rebecca, 449 pages

[Elina]

I second Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

[Adrienne]

I nominate Little Fires Everywhere, 338 pages.
Last read 2018

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Rebecca

[Cynthia]

I second Never Let Me Go, Brave New World, Ready Player One, and Little Fires Everywhere

[Zeljka]

I second Little Fires Everywhere

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second A Christmas Carol.

[fleurette]

I second
Crazy Rich Asians
Ready Player One
A Court of Thorns and Roses

[Miriam]

I second A Christmas Carol

[Craig]

I second A Christmas Carol and Ready Player 1

[spoko]

I second A Christmas Carol.

[Elizabeth]

I second the grapes of wrath

[Sandra]

I second Little Fires Everywhere

[Kim]

I second Little Fires Everywhere

[Dani Beckman]

I second A Christmas Carol

[aliciav]

I second Never Let Me Go, 1Q84, and A Christmas Carol.

[Robin]

I second The Grapes of Wrath.

[Ali]

I second:
Brave New World
Kindred
Crazy Rich Asians
The Queen's Gambit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
Little Fires Everywhere