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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2024 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 PST August 16.

Tracking through message: 37
⭐ Poll Candidate

A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 4
Where the Red Fern Grows (272p) - 4
⭐The Turn of the Screw (121p) - 8
At the Mountains of Madness (194p) - 4
The Woman in White (672p) - 4
⭐Cat’s Cradle (179p) - 6
⭐Brideshead Revisited (452p) - 7
⭐Mansfield Park (488p) - 6
Inferno (490p) - 3

I nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. First published in 1929, 293 pages.

I nominate Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. 272 pages; published 1961.

I nominate The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 121p

I second A Farewell to Arms and Where the Red Fern Grows

I second The Turn of the Screw.

I nominate At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft; 194 pages, published 1931.

I second A Farewell to Arms and The Turn of the Screw.

I nominate The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages.

I second The Turn of the Screw.

I second At the Mountains of Madness.

I nominate Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 179 pages, published in 1963

I nominate Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 352 pages

I second Cat's Cradle

I nominate Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 488 pages, published 1814

I second At the Mountains of Madness, The Turn of the Screw, The Woman in White, and Cat's Cradle.

I second Brideshead Revisited

I second Mansfield Park.

I second At the Mountains of Madness and Cat's Cradle

I second:
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Turn of the Screw
Brideshead Revisited

I second Brideshead Revisited, Cat’s Cradle, and Woman in White.

I second the turn of the screw

I second Where the Red Fern Grows and Mansfield Park.

I second The Turn of the Screw and Mansfield Park

I second Cat's Cradle.

I second Brideshead Revisited.

I nominate Inferno by Dante Aligheri (490pg.)

I second Inferno, Cat's Cradle and The Turn of the Screw

I second brideshead revisited

I second Inferno

I second Mansfield Park

I second At the Mountains of Madness and The Woman in White.

Second Farewell to Arms and Where the Red Fern Grows

I second the Woman in White, Brideshead Revisited, and Inferno.

I second Brideshead Revisited and Mansfield Park

I second Mansfield Park

I second A Farewell to Arms

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