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

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for December 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 October 16

Tracking through message: 71

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 9
Great Expectations (505p) - 13
The Iliad (683p) - 2
Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker (192p) - 6
Miracle on 34th Street (136p) - 5
East of Eden (601p) - 13
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (335p) - 8
The Outsiders (182p) - 13
The Day of the Triffids (228p) - 6
Wise Blood (160p)
Madame Bovary (329p) - 6
A Doll's House (122p) - 4
The Night Before Christmas (65p) - 1

I nominate The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (256 pages)

I nominate Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (500+ pages).

I nominate The Iliad by Homer (683 pages)

I second Great Expectations

I nominate Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker, 192 pages

I nominate Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies, 136 pages. Also, second the Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker.

seconding great expectations

I nominate East of Eden by John Steinbeck (601 pages).

Estefanía wrote: "I nominate Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies, 136 pages. Also, second the Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker."

I've never read this book, but hope to this Christmas season. I just love the black and white movie version. :)

I second East of Eden.

I nominate Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie 335 pages (first published in 1938)

I second Hercule Poirot's Christmas

I second East of Eden

I second The Illiad and East of Eden

I nominate The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (182 p.) and second The Hound of the Baskervilles and East of Eden.

I second The Outsiders

I second the Outsiders

I nominate The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham) and I second East of Eden

I second The Outsiders

i second the outsiders

i second nutcracker and mouse king and the tale of the nutcracker

second miracle on 34th street

I'll second The Outsiders and The Day of the Triffids

I second East of Eden & Great Expectations

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles

I second The Outsiders. It's been years since I've read that.

I second outsiders and Hercule

I second the Nutcracker

I second Miracle on 34 Street

I second Great Expectations

I second east of eden

I second East of Eden

I second the Iliad

I second great expectations

I'll second The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Day of the Triffids


and nominate Wise Blood (160pp) by Flannery O'Connor

I second Great Expectations and Hercule Poirot's Christmas.

I second Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker

I would like to nominate Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (329 pgs)

I second The Hounds of the Baskervilles and Miracle on 34th Street

I second The Day of the Triffids

I second Hercule Poirot's Christmas

I second The Outsiders

seconding east of eden & the hound of baskervilles!

I second The Hound of the Baskervilles and Great Expectations

I'm going to nominate A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (122 pgs)

I second A Doll's House

I second East of Eden and Hercule Poirot's Christmas

I second A Doll's House, The Outsiders and Hound of the Baskervilles

I second:
- Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
- The Day of the Triffids
- A Doll's House

I second A Doll's House

I second Madame Bovary

I second The Day of the Triffids and The Outsiders