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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2024 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 ŷ������. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end Midnight PST February 16.

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

Little Women
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Song of Achilles
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Haunting of Hill House
Emma
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Man Called Ove
The Sun Also Rises

Tracking through message: 51
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I Am a Cat (480p) - 4
�� Rebecca (449p) - 10
The Color Purple (304p) - 5
Brave New World (268p) - 5
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (272p) - 5
�� The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 6
�� The Underground Railroad (306p) - 7
�� Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (258p) - 6
The Vanishing Half (343p) - 2
The Nightingale (440p) - 3
The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 3
Peter Pan (176p) - 3

I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 2018

I nominate Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 449 pages.

I nominate The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 304 pages, last read September 2020

I nominate Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 268 pages, first published in 1932. Last read by this group in April 2019.

Andi wrote: "I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 2015"

Did this group even exist in 2015?

Kimberly wrote: "Andi wrote: "I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 2015"

Did this group even exist in 2015?"

FYI: The group was formed in 2016 and this book was read in 2018.

I nominate The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 272 pages

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, read in 2018

I second Rebecca

I nominate The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (306 p., pub. 2016). Read in 2020.

Kimberly wrote: "Andi wrote: "I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 2015"

Did this group even exist in 2015?"

Typo, should be 2018

I second:
Brave New World

I nominate Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (258 pg, pub. 1968).

I second The Color Purple.

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I second
Do Androids Dream

I nominate The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 343 pages.

I second The Tattooist of Auschwitz

I nominate The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (440 pages)

I second the Vanishing Half

I nominate The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, 314 pages.

I second Brave New World.

I second the Handmaid's Tale

I second I am a Cat.

I second Rebecca and Brave New World

I second I am a Cat

I second The Diary of a Young Girl and The Underground Railroad.

I second I am a Cat, Tattooist, Vanishing Half, and Nightingale

I second The Diary of a Young Girl

I second I am a Cat, The Underground Railroad and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

I second Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Nightingale.

I second The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Underground Railway

I second Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I second The Color Purple

I second:
The Color Purple
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Underground Railroad
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Nightingale

I nominate Peter Pan (176 pages).

I second The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Underground Railroad

rebecca

I second Rebecca and The Color Purple

I second:
- The Underground Railroad
- Peter Pan and
- The Color Purple

I second The Handmaid's Tale

I second Rebecca.

I second Rebecca as well.

I second Peter Pan and Brave New World

I second The Diary of a Young Girl. Would love to reread that one.

I vote for Peter Pan

Rebecca.

I second Rebecca

I second Rebecca, The Underground Railroad & The Diary of a Young Girl

I second Diary of a Young Girl.