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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2025 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 March 16

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret Garden

Tracking through message: 42
🍀Poll Candidate

A Man Called Ove (337p) - 2
Catch-22 (453p) - 3
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (272p) - 2
🍀Northanger Abbey (260p) - 10
🍀The Invisible Man (192p) - 7
The Neverending Story (396p) - 1
🍀The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 5
🍀The Princess Bride (429p) - 6
The Diary of a Young Girl (???p) - 3
1Q84 (944p) - 1
Circe (393p) - 1
🍀The Martian (348p) - 5
And Then There Were None (264p) - 4

I nominate A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (337 pages).

I nominate Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
First published in 1961
453 pages

I nominate The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 272 pages

I second Tattooist.

I second Catch-22

I nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 260 pages.

I nominate The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, 192 pp

I nominate The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, last read in 2020, 396 pages.

I second:
- The invisible man
- Northanger Abbey

I nominate The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages.

I nominate The Princess Bride 429 pages

I second Northanger Abbey.

I second Northanger Abbey

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I second Northanger Abbey
The Joy Luck Club
The Princess Bride

I second Diary of Anne Frank.

I second:
A Man Called Ove
Northanger Abbey
The Invisible Man
The Neverending Story
The Joy Luck Club
The Princess Bride
The Diary of a Young Girl

I nominate IQ84 by Haruki Murakami 944p, last read May 2018.

I second:
IQ84
The Joy Luck Club
The Princess Bride

I second The Invisible Man

I nominate Circe by Madeline Miller (393 pages)

I second The Tattooist of Auschwitz

I second Northanger Abbey and Princess Bride

I nominate The Martian by Andy Weir, 348 pgs.

And a second for The Invisable Man.

I second The Martian.

I nominate And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (last read 2019; 264 pages). I recently stumbled across a copy of it, and I thought it would be fun to read it with the group 😊

I second
And Then There Were None
The Martian
The Invisible Man

I second the invisible man

I second Northanger Abbey and And Then There Were None.

I second:

A Man Called Ove
Circe
The Invisible Man
The Joy Luck Club
Northanger Abbey

I second The Martian

I second Northanger Abbey

I second The Joy Luck Club & The Princess Bride

I second :
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
Northanger Abbey

I second the Martian

I also second And Then There Were None

I second The Princess Bride.

I second And Then There Were None

I second The Martian

I second, Catch-22

Thanks everyone—nominations are now closed, and the polls are open! Help us pick the next Catch-Up read by casting your vote here.