Classics for Beginners discussion

Hey everyone! It's time to select our April group read!
This is not a themed month.

Nomination rules for this Thread- PLEASE READ RULES CAREFULLY
1. One nomination per person.
2. Classic books that are 50 years or older (please check if you are not sure).
3. Books can be of any length, but if a book wins and is over 600 pages, we will read it over a two month period.
4. No book we have already read as a group. Please check the bookshelf in the upper right corner to see what has been read in the past.
5. No book from an author who we have read in the last 9 months.
6. To facilitate poll creation, please use a Goodreads link to add the nomination by clicking on 'add book/author' above the text box.
7. Please indicate whether or not you would be willing to lead the discussion if your nomination is chosen,

†Authors not to nominate:

Elizabeth Gaskell (March 2019)
Lorraine Hansberry (February 2019)
Leo Tolstoy (January 2019)
Agatha Christie (Dec 2018)
H.G. Wells (Nov 2018)
W. Somerset Maugham (Oct 2018)
Charles Dickens (Sept 2018)
Jules Verne (Aug 2018)
Ray Bradbury (July2018)

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I nominate King Solomon's Mines By H. Rider Haggard
I can lead

Crescent Moon, go in the group page and there’s a list of previous group reads.

The listing of the authors not to read is listed in message #1 each month. To find books that have been read, go to the bookshelf to find the book and to see when/if it was read. The bookshelf link is on the upper right side of this page.

The Grapes of Wrath was read by the group in May 2015. You may nominate this book in the rereads thread found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Master and Margarita was read by the group in 2/15. It can be nominated in the reread thread.

With a group this large, did we not set a year limit of ‘Re-read’ lusting? As in, this book was read four (4) years ago, how many years are we going back with this group and still catagirizing it as an ‘Already Read’ and how much time must pass before we let it list as a ‘Recommendation’? I thought we had coordinated on timeframes and just want to make sure I am on the same page.

Oh my goodness, LIST!!! List, not lust... silly autocorrect 😧

This is the link to the changes made. If there was another agreement, please let me know. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...,

I think we agreed to have rereads if they were read by group more than 3 years ago. We need to include that in the monthly rules for rereads.

I would like to nominate The Gate by Sōseki Natsume, and I would be willing to lead the discussion.

My nomination is for James Clavell's "King Rat".

Sonja wrote: "Oh my goodness, LIST!!! List, not lust... silly autocorrect 😧"

Bahaha Sonja. I though you were referring to books you really, really wanted to re-read!

BOOKS CURRENTLY NOMINATED:

1) King Rat by James Clavell
2) The Gate by Sōseki Natsume
3) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
4) King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
5) The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
6. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

My Nomination: The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
Published: 1951 / Pages: 304 / Lead: YES

Till We Have Faces

Published 1956

No I would not like to lead discussions.