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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 2022 in the CLASSICS category. 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 June 16.

Tracking through message: 59
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Invisible Man (581p) - 10
Rosemary's Baby (308p) - 2
⭐The War of the Worlds (192p) - 9
Cannery Row (181p) - 4
Doctor Zhivago (592p) - 8
⭐Persuasion (249p) - 11
David Copperfield (882p) - 3
The Good Earth (418p) - 4
⭐Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. (306p) - 9
Things Fall Apart (209p) - 5
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 4
To the Lighthouse (209p) - 4
The Age of Innocence - (293p) - 1

Let's give Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (581p) another shot

I nominate Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, 308 pages

I second the Invisible Man

I also second invisible man!

I nominate The War of the Worlds (192 pages)

I second Invisible Man

I nominate Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages

I nominate Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages.

I second Dr Zhivago and The Invisible Man

I nominate Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon by Jorge Amado. 448 pages, first published in 1958.

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon by Jorge Amado. 448 pages, first published in 1958."

All nominations must have at least 50,000 ratings. Sorry but this doesn't qualify.

I second "Invisible Man" and "Rosemary's Baby"

I nominate Persuasion, 249 pages.

I second Persuasion

I second Doctor Zhivago and The War of the Worlds

I second Cannery Row.

I second Persuasion.

I second Persuasion

I second Persuasion and The War of the Worlds.

A lot of books I would love to read, but I will be away from home. :)

I second Rosemary's Baby

I second Persuasion, The War of the Worlds, and Cannery Row.

Andi wrote: "I second Rosemary's Baby"

Andi, you nominated this book in Message 4, so your second won't be counted.

Renata wrote: "Andi wrote: "I second Rosemary's Baby"

Andi, you nominated this book in Message 4, so your second won't be counted."

Sorry, I didn't realize I did it before. Thank you!

I nominate David Copperfield (882 pages)

I nominate The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 418 Pages

I nominate Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift. 306 pages, first published in 1729

I second Gulliver's Travels.

I second The Good earth.

I second Gulliver's Travels.

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (209 pages)

I second Things Fall Apart.

I second Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Good Earth

I second all of these:
Dr. Zhivago; Things Fall Apart; Gullivers Travels; David Copperfield; Invisible Man.

I second Things Fall Apart

I second The Invisible Man, Cannery Row, and War of the Worlds.

I nominate Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (194 pages). I second Persuasion and Doctor Zhivago.

I nominate The Good Earth. by Pearl Buck

I second "David Copperfield".

I second things fall apart

I second The War of the Worlds and Persuasion

I second The War of the Worlds

I second Dr Zhivago

I second Gulliver's Travels.

I second Things Fall Apart and Gulliver's Travels.

I second Persuasion and The Invisible Man

I second Gulliver's Travels

I second Mrs Dalloway and Persuasion

I nominate To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 209 pages