For February 2026 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

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

[Renata]

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

The Thursday Murder Club
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

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 19
❄️= Poll Candidate

Murder on the Orient Express (274p) - 1
The Handmaid's Tale (311p) - 1
The Centerville Ghost (126p) - 1
All the Light We Cannot See (531p)
A Gentleman in Moscow (495p) - 1
To Kill a Mockingbird (323p) - 1
The Things They Carried (246p)
Ready Player One (480p) - 1
The Book Thief (592p)
Memoirs of a Geisha (503p)

[Krystalline]

I nominate Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 274

[Rosie]

I nominate The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood , 311 pages

[Sandra]

I nominate The Centerville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 126 pages

[Rosie]

I second The Centerville Ghost

[Noek]

I nominate All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 531 pages

[Rae]

I nominate A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, 495 pages

[Adrienne]

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

[spoko]

I second The Handmaid’s Tale.

[Renata]

I nominate The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, 246 pages.

[Theresa]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 480p

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

I second Murder on the Orient Express.

[Hannah]

I second to kill a mockingbird

[Pony]

I nominate The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (592 pages).

[Pony]

I second Ready Player One.

[Sandra]

I second A Gentleman in Moscow

[Kimberly]

I nominateMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[Pony]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.