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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for November 2025 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.

Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

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 September 16

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sense and Sensibility
The Alchemist
Northanger Abbey
And Then There Were None
The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol

Tracking through message: 40
🍎Poll Candidate

Madame Bovary (329p) - 4
Flowers for Algernon (311p) - 1
Piranesi (272p) - 3
Catch-22 (453p) - 3
🍎Kindred (288p) - 5
🍎The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (180p) - 6
A Court of Thorns and Roses (419p) - 3
All the Light We Cannot See (531p) - 2
Small Great Things (517p) - 3
🍎Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 6
Watership Down (478p) - 4
Ready Player One (480p) - 3

Hello! I nominate Madame Bovary, 329 pages

I nominate Flowers for Algernon, 311 pages

Hi! I nominate Piranesi, 272 pages

I nominate Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages

I nominate Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, 288 pages.

I nominate The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, 180 pages.

I second:
Piranesi
Catch-22
Kindred
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

I nominate A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (419 pages; last read 2022).

I second The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

I second A Court of Thorns and Roses.

I second Thorns & Roses.

I second Kindred

I nominate All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 531pages

I second Piranesi

I nominate Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult, 517p, last read Jan 2017.

I second Small Great Things

I second:
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Small Great Things
- Madame Bovary

I nominate Crazy Rich Asians, 403 pages

I nominate Watership Down, 478 pages, last read in 2020.

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

I second All the Light We Cannot See.

I second Madame Bovary

I second Watership Down

I second Kindred.

I second Kindred & Catch 22

I vote for A Court of Thorns and Roses, Crazy Rich Asians, and Watership Down.

I second:
Small Great Things
Crazy Rich Asians
Watership Down
The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe.

I second Crazy Rich Asians

I second Madame Bovary

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 480 pages

I second Ready Player One.

I second Watership Down 🐰

I second The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Here's a second for Ready Player One 🧚‍♀️🙋🏼.

I second Crazy Rich Asians.

I second Ready Player One

I second:
Madame Bovary
Flowers for Algernon
Piranesi
Catch-22
Kindred
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
All the Light We Cannot See
Crazy Rich Asians

I second Watership Down