December 2026 New School Classics Nominations > Likes and Comments
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I would like to nominate Blindsight by Peter Watts, 384 pages, 2006The book is regarded as one of the best science fiction books of the 21st Century.
J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Blindsight by Peter Watts, 384 pages, 2006The book is regarded as one of the best science fiction books of the 21st Century."
I will second Blindsight.
Here is a nomination that has been sitting on my to-read bookshelf for more years than I know. Ten plus years would be a good guess. It was published in 1967. Goodreads editions run a gamut of page counts from 180 to 240, so let's call it 200 pages. Goodreads readers have rated it 1,694,004 times, with an average rating of 4.15. Other than sitting on my shelf for a long, dust-collecting time, there is something familiar about this book that I can’t place.I nominate The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Wobbley wrote: "I nominate The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. 232 pages, published 1922."I second.
I nominate The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 1950 180 pp. This book is the start of a series. My reason for nominating was that I thought some of you might have children or grandchildren and would like to share your reading experience with them during December holidays. This is one possibility though there are many others.
I second The French Lieutenant's Woman
Sara wrote: "I nominate Missing Person by Patrick Modiano, 1978, 168 pages."Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"On one level Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafés, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self."
Not seconding just yet....
1. Books that have been featured as group reads in the last three years are not eligible for nomination. New School Bookshelf
In the interest of variety, please wait a month to renominate a book that was in any poll last month:
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
2. Eligible publication dates for books are 1915 - 2006.
3. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected. (Please remember to also use this option if you want to insert a bookcover.)
4. A maximum of seven books, by seven different authors, will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll. (Ties sometimes require an adjustment to this rule.)
5. Only one nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.
5a. A second can be withdrawn and placed on another choice. This change must in some way be noted in a post such as, "I am withdrawing my second for book A and placing it on book B." This makes it easier for moderators to track changes.
6. Only one book per author; if more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.
6a. Same author-multiple categories. The same author may be nominated in multiple categories in a single month as long as the nominations are for different books. In the case of identical nominations, precedence will go to the first one to receive a second.
7. Members nominating for a monthly Group Read will need to check that a copy of the text is reasonably available for members, and is available in English. Moderators may disallow a nomination if a copy is not readily available.
Nominations will remain open until the 14th of the month. Polls will open on the 16th and run until the penultimate day of the month.