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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2021 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 featured 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 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end Midnight March 16.

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

The Bell Jar
1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring
Farenheit 451
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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â­�Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

Small Great Things (510) - 2
The Sun Also Rises (189) - 6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325) - 3
Life of Pi (460) - 5
â­�Pachinko (512) - 14
â­�One Hundred Years of Solitude (417) - 13
â­�Catch-22 (453) - 10
The Thirteenth Tale (406) - 2
Gone Girl (432) - 3
â­�Dark Matter (342) - 9
Love in the Time of Cholera (348) - 5
Slaughterhouse-Five (275) - 2
The Handmaid's Tale (314) - 1
The Secret Garden (331)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (370) - 3

Small Great Things

510 pages

I nominate The Sun Also Rises (189 pages) by Ernest Hemingway, last read in May 2017.

I second The Sun Also Rises

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
325pgs

I nominate Life of Pi 460 pages

I second Life of Pi

I nominate Pachinko (512 p).

I second Pachinko

I nominate One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 417 pp.

alicia v wrote: "I nominate One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 417 pp."

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

I nominate Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 453 pp.

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale (406 p) and I second Life of Pi (460 p)

#Gone Girl 432 pages

I nominate Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (342 pages)

I second Pachinko

I second Dark Matter

I nominate Love in the Time of Cholera, 348 pages

I second 100 years of solitude

I second One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Catch-22.

I second Dark Matter.

I second Dark matter

I second Catch 22

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (275 pages).

I second Pachinko and Gone Girl.

I will 2nd Gone Girl and The Sun Also Rises. Thanks. --Jen from Quebec :0)

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude and Pachinko

I second Pachinko :)

I second The Sun Also Rises

I second Catch 22

I second Life of Pi and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

I second Dark Matter and Pachinko

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pachinko, and Love in the Time of Cholera

I second Pachinko and Small Great Things

I second Dark Matter and The Sun Also Rises.

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude and Catch-22

I second Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five.

I nominate Handmaid's Tale, 314 pages

I second Life of Pi and Pachinko

I second the thirteenth tale

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude

I second Pachinko

I nominate Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson.

I nominate The Sun Also Rises

I second One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera & Catch-22

Second Life of Pi

I second Catch-22.

I second The Handmaid's Tale, Gone Girl, and Dark Matter