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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2022 in the CLASSICS category. The top 4 will be selected for the poll.

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, with at least 50,000 ratings, 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 April 16.

Tracking through message: 38
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐I, Robot (244p) - 9
⭐The Grapes of Wrath (479p) - 9
Of Human Bondage (684p) - 3
The Gambler (188p)
⭐Invisible Man (581p) - 9
⭐The Three Musketeers (625p) - 9
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p)
The Time Machine (118p) - 2
The Maltese Falcon (213p) - 2
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (359p) - 2

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 224 pages

I nominate The Grapes of Wrath 479 pages

I nominate Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (684 p., 53k ratings).

I nominate The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky. First published 1866. 188 pages

I second Of Human Bondage and The Grapes of Wrath

I nominate Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (581 pg, 170,407 ratings).

I second I Robot.

I nominate The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (625 pages) and
I second I,Robot.

I nominate Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1959) 282 pages

I second The Invisible Man

I second I, Robot

I second The Three Musketeers

I second The Three Musketeers

I second The Invisible Man

I second I, Robot, Grapes of Wrath, and The Three Musketeers

I nominate Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (468 pages)

LittleRedRidingHood wrote: "I nominate Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (468 pages)"

LittleRed, your book doesn't have quite enough ratings to qualify as "well read" yet (see Msg.1). Is there another classic you would like to nominate instead?

I second Invisible Man, I, Robot, and The Three Musketeers

I second Invisible Man and The Three Musketers

I second Invisible Man and The Three Musketeers

I second:
I, Robot
The Three Musketeers
Invisible Man

I nominate
The Time Machine by HG Wells, 118 pages

I nominate: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, and second I, Robot, The Grapes of Wrath and The Three Musketeers.

i second THE GRAPES OF WRATH

I second Invisible Man.

I second

The Grapes of Wrath
Of Human Bondage
The Three Musketeers

I second Invisible Man and The Grapes of Wrath.

I second I, Robot, Grapes of Wrath, and The Time Machine.

i second invisible man

I second Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

I second The Grapes of Wrath

I nominate The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 359pgs

I second The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

I second the Maltese Falcon and I, Robot

I second Of Human Bondage

I second The Time Machine, The Maltese Falcon and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

I second The Grapes of Wrath

I second I, robot