EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for August 2020 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

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 June 16

Tracking through message: 87

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Flowers for Algernon (311p) - 18
The Age of Innocence (293p) - 13
Brideshead Revisited (351p) - 5
The Left Hand of Darkness (304p) - 6
The Crucible (136p) - 2
Their Eyes Were Watching God (219p) - 5
Death Comes for the Archbishop (297p) - 5
The Invisible Man (192p) - 14
The Old Man and the Sea (96p) - 12
Crime and Punishment (671p) - 6
The Fire Next Time (106p) - 6
Around the World in Eighty Days (252p) - 10
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (389p) - 3
Silas Marner (262p) - 6
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 2
The Brothers Karamazov (796p)
Hard Times (286p) - 1

I nominate Flowers for Algernon. (311 pages)

I nominate The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (293 pages)

I second The Age of Innocence

I second Flowers for Algernon.

I nominate Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (351 pages)

I second Brideshead Revisited

I second The Age of the Innocence

I nominate The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 304 pages. I also second The Flowers for Algernon.

I second The Left Hand of Darkness!

I nominate The Crucible by Arthur Miller, 136 pages.

I second Flowers for Algernon.

I nominate Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (219 pages)

I nominate Death Comes for the Archbishop

I nominate The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (192 pages)

I nominate The Old Man and the Sea (96 pages)

I second The Invisible Man and The Age of Innocence

I second the Invisible Man

I nominate Crime and Punishment (671 pages)

I second The Invisible Man

I nominate The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (106 pages)

I second The Left Hand of Darkness

I also Second Brideshead Revisited.

I second Crime and Punishment

I second The Invisible Man.

I second Age of Innocence

I'll second The Old Man and the Sea and Flowers for Algernon, then nominate Around the World in Eighty Days (252 pgs.)

I second Around the World in Eighty Days, Flowers for Algernon, and Age of Innocence

I second Crime and Punishment and The Fire Next Time.

I am for Age of Innocence

I nominate Frankenstein by Shelley (335 pages)

I second The Fire Next Time

I second The Old Man and the Sea and The Invisible Man.

I second Flowers for Algernon (311 pages)

I second flowers for algernon

second left hand of darkness

I second The Invisible Man, Flowers for Algernon and Around the World in Eighty Days

I second The Old Man and The Sea

I second Around the World in 80 Days!

I second The Old Man and the Sea

I nominate The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (389 pages)

I second Flowers for Algernon

Someone should have made at least some bad suggestions. As it is, this is a painful choice from excellent ones! :-)

I second

Around the World in Eighty Days

The Age of Innocence

Death Comes for the Archbishop

The Old Man and the Sea

I second "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Around the World in 80 Days".

I nominate Silas Marner 262 pgs.

I second Around the World in Eighty Days and Death Comes for the Archbishop

Rebecca wrote: "I nominate Frankenstein by Shelley (335 pages)"

Frankenstein has already been read as a group, so it does not qualify for this category. Feel free to go nominate it over on the catch-up thread!

I agree with Marcos, There are so many good nominations this month!

I second:
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Flowers for Algernon

I want to second one more book: Silas Marner.

i second Silas Marner

I second:
Crime and Punishment
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Fire Next Time
Flowers for Algernon

I second The Fire Next Time