Renata’s Comments (group member since Jul 12, 2019)

Renata’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides"

Kimberly, your book suggestion is a modern one, being published in 2011. Do you have a classic recommendation instead?

Elina wrote: "I nominate Madame Bovary, 329 pages"

Elina, this book has already been read by our group, so it can be nominated in the Catch-Up topic. Is there another classic book you would like to suggest?

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate None but the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler. First published in 1900;

74 pages"

Kimberly, your book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings. Care to try again?

I second A Court of Thorns & Roses.

I second Carrie, Stephen King's first book.

Sandra wrote: "I nominate The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 371 pages"
Sandra, your book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50K ratings. Give it another try?

I nominate Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 720 pages

I nominate To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 323 pages.

I nominate The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, 490 pages.

I second Wild Dark Shore.

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Convenience Store Woman (163p) - 5
Book of Night (336p) - 4
🎃Hamnet (372p) - 11
Small Things Like These (128p) - 4
🎃Wild Dark Shore (298p) - 7
Nothing to See Here (288p) - 1
Greenlights (289p) - 2
Fortunately, the Milk (128p) - 5
The God of the Woods (490p) - 5
Angela’s Ashes (452p) - 3
Carrie (272p) - 5
Chocolat (306p) - 2
Icebreaker (447p) - 1
The Wedding People (367p) - 2
The Women (471p) - 2
The Shadow of the Wind (487p) - 3

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 2025 in the MODERN/POPULAR category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-Up 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 October 16.

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🎃A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 5
Far From the Madding Crowd (480p) - 2
🎃Howards End (318p) - 6
Dead Souls (464p) - 2
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 2
The Tell-Tale Heart (31p) - 2
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 3
🎃Moby-Dick or, The Whale (720p) - 5
🎃4:50 from Paddington (288p) - 7
The Plague (308p) - 1
🎃Emily of New Moon (339p) - 5
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 2025 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 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 October 16.

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Never Let Me Go (288p) - 3
Brave New World (268p) - 2
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 3
Kindred (288p) - 3
Crazy Rich Asians (403p) - 3
The Queen's Gambit (258p) - 2
1Q84 (944p) - 1
🎃To Kill a Mockingbird (323p) - 5
🎃Ready Player One (480p) - 7
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (269p) - 3
🎃A Court of Thorns and Roses (419p) - 5
The Grapes of Wrath (496p) - 4
Rebecca (449p) - 2
🎃Little Fires Everywhere (338p) - 5
🎃A Christmas Carol (184p) - 5

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

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 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 October 16

I second My Brilliant Friend

I second The Namesake and
Wild Dark Shore and
The Life We Bury.

I second The 3 Musketeers.