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Nominations for the October 2024 Revisit the Shelf book will open on August 1st, 2024.

1. Only books currently on our group bookshelf are eligible: Group Bookshelf

Time Since Last Read. A book is only eligible for rereading if it has not been a group read in the last 12 months (1 year). A book read by the group in any of our reading categories in the past year is not eligible for nomination.

Below is a list of the past year's Revisit the Bookshelf winners. Please do not nominate any of these:

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages, last read Sept, 2024.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) 671 pages, last read August 2024
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages, last read July 2024
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) 409 pages, last read June 2024
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 264 pages, Last read May 2024
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 272 pages, Last read April 2024
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625), 1026 pages, last read February and March 2024
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908) 320 pages, Last read Jan. 2024
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2023
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages, last Nov. 2023.
Stoner by John Williams (1965) 288 p., last read Oct. 2023


2. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

3. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.

4. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.

You may change a second from one book to another. Please state which book you originally seconded and which you would like to change to.

5. In the interest of variety, please wait a month to re-nominate a book that has been in the poll. Please do not nominate any of the books that were in our poll last month:

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880) 796 pages, last read 2017
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) 521 pages, last read in 2017.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) 198 pages, last read Aug 2011.
Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) 478 pages., last read May 2016
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages, last read Sept. 2017.
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924) 376 pages


Nominations will remain open until the 14th of the month. Polls will open on the 16th and run until the end of the month.

I nominate Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky. First published in 1864. 136 pages.
Last read April 2017.

Is that eligible? We never read that selection (as far as I remember). And there does not seem to be any Dostoevsky last read in 2017.

I would like to nominate King Lear by William Shakespeare, 142pp, 1605

Last read in 2012 (12 years ago. One of the oldest)

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate King Lear by William Shakespeare, 142pp, 1605

Last read in 2012 (12 years ago. One of the oldest)"

I second Lear.

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Is that eligible? We never read that selection (as far as I remember). And there does not seem to be any Dostoevsky last read in 2017."

While all four selections have been previous group reads, I don’t think this is eligible, as it is a collection. I thought the rule was no collections (unless it is poetry), only individual books.

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky. First published in 1864..."

Kimberly we did read some of these stories, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "Notes From the Underground", "White Nights" and in the short story category. The House of the Dead is a full-length book, but this nomination has selections from the novel. I think it is a good nomination, but it needs some refining. In the past, it has been difficult to discuss an entire collection. Could you please choose one of the stories to nominate or perhaps just the full-length book? Thank you for your nomination.

I know the way Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ treats short stories can make things confusing at times. A person might have a link to one particular short story and the next thing you know your link has been merged with a collection.

Just "Notes from the Underground," but Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ didn't allow me to select just the one story. I'll try again. Notes from the Underground: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition

Kimberly wrote: "Just "Notes from the Underground," but Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ didn't allow me to select just the one story. I'll try again. Notes from the Underground: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition"

I totally understand. Thank you and we'll make it clear in the nominations process. I have actually started just typing in the name of short stories in my challenges because links change so frequently.

I get this one: Notes from the Underground (book number 436982)

If you get something you don't want, just change the name and the number manually. Goodread's search system is really bad.

I would like to nominate The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I believe it was last read in 2021 (I am new to the group, so I hope I checked correctly).

Siddharth wrote: "I would like to nominate The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I believe it was last read in 2021 (I am new to the group, so I hope I checked correctly)."

Exactly right. Thank you Siddharth.

Notes from the Underground

At this point we only have the following nominations

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864) 96 pages, last read March 2015

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994) 607 pages, last read Septembers 2021.

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605) 335 pages (must have a lot of notes!) Last read Oct 2012

I will nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1929, 293 pages

Last read February 2016

Katy wrote: "I will nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1929, 293 pages

Last read February 2016"

Thank you Katy.

Updated nominations:

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864) 96 pages, last read March 2015
Nominated by Kimberly: Dave

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994) 607 pages, last read Sept. 2021.
Nominated by Siddharth:

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605) 335 pages (must have a lot of notes!) Last read Oct 2012
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Sam

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1920) 293 pages, last read Feb. 2016
Nominated by Katy:

I nominate The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

First read - Book of the Month, February 2011
Second read - Revisit the Shelf, September 2015

I nominate Things Fall Apart
last read February 2015

I nominate As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
which I think we last read in 2019

Yippie thanks everyone.

I second Notes from the Underground.

I second A Farewell to Arms

I second As I Lay Dying.

Please let me know if I need to correct anything.

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1864)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1920)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

I'll second Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Thanks updated.

I second The Time Machine.

I second King Lear

Thank you everyone. Since we have seven nominations all seven books will move to the poll.