For January 2026 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for January 2026 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 November 16

[Renata]

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

A Christmas Carol
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?

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 30
🍂= Poll Candidate

🍂To Kill a Mockingbird (323p) - 6
The Grapes of Wrath (496p) -4
🍂The Thursday Murder Club (377p) - 6
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (210p) - 2
Little Women (449p) - 3
The Bell Jar (288p) - 1
Ready Player One (480p) - 3
The Jungle Book (277p) - 3
The Vanishing Half (343p) - 3
The Night Circus (506p) - 2
The Shining (497p) - 2
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 1

[Adrienne]

I nominate To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
323 pages
Last read 2017

[Sandra]

I nominate The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 496 pages

[Sandra]

I second To kill a Mockingbird

[Gordana]

I also nominate To Kill A Mockingbird

[Noek]

I nominate The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 377 pages

[Kimberly]

I nominate Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

First published in 2017, last read March 2018. 210 pages

[Pony]

I nominate Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (449 pages).
I'd love to start out next year knocking out a big book that's been on my TBR for too long!

[Pony]

I second:
The Grapes of Wrath
The Thursday Murder Club

[Renata]

I nominate The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages.

I second Astrophysics.

[Sandra]

I second Little Women and The Thursday Murder Club

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

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

I second The Thursday Murder Club and Little Women.

[Sandra]

I second Ready Player One

[Rae]

I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, 277 pages

[Lisa]

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

I second To Kill a Mockingbird and The Thursday Murder Club.

[Renata]

I second Jungle Book.

[Zeljka]

I nominate The Night Circus, 506 p

[Zeljka]

I second:
- The Vanishing Half
- The Grapes of Wrath
- To Kill a Mockingbird

[Pony]

I second:
Ready Player One
The Jungle Book
The Night Circus

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second The Grapes of Wrath andAstrophysics for People in a Hurry.

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I also second The Thursday Murder Club. Forgot to add it to above post #22.

[Kelly]

I nominate To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. 323 pages

[Theresa]

I nominate The Shining by Stephen King, 497p, last read Apr 2017.

I second Ready Player One.

[Renata]

I second The Shining.

[Pony]

I second The Shining.

[Ali]

I suggest A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 372 pages, last read in 2019

I second:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
The Thursday Murder Club
Little Women
The Jungle Book
The Vanishing Half
The Night Circus

[Pony]

I second A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Adrienne]

I second The Bell Jar and The Vanishing Half

[Sandra]

I second The Shining