Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

June 2023 nominations now open! Please review the requirements below for book eligibility.

In the interest of variety, please wait a month to renominate a book that has been in the poll. These are the books from
May's poll:

Poll Winner,The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
2nd, The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3rd, Recitatif by Toni Morrison
4th, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave: Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave by Sojourner Truth
5th ,The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield
6th, A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

1. 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.

2. Books that have already been featured as short story group reads or currently on our bookshelf, in any category, are not eligible to be nominated.

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3. Only books up to 130 pages maximum are eligible for nomination. If a story slightly exceeds this number of pages the moderator will decide if the story will pass through to the poll, (probably a coin toss)

4. A story's size will be determined by using the Goodreads default edition. If a larger number of editions listed indicate the story has more pages than the default edition, it may be ruled ineligible. If the story has no Goodreads edition and is a part of a larger collection, please identify the collection title and indicate the number of pages applied to the story you are nominating.

5. Only stories/books that were published before 1999 are eligible to be nominated in this section.

6. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.

7. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to the poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds moves to the poll.

8. 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.

8a. A second can be withdrawn and placed on another choice.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." It will be easier for the moderator to track changes.

9. Only one book per author, In the event that more than one book by the same author is nominated, 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.

9a. 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.

Nominations will run from today thru the 14th. Polls will open on the 16th and run till the end of the month

I would like to nominate Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, First published April 1946, 24 pages

Read online here:
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-...

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, First published April 1946, 24 pages

Read online here:
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/th..."

I second this.

I nominate The Beggar's Opera by John Gay.

I would like to nominate Wilkie Collins short story The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed. It has been widely anthologized and can be found online for free. We have novels by Collins on our shelf but no short stories. He wrote dozens of short stories.

I nominate The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark. First published in 1970. 103 pages.

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I would like to nominate Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, First published April 1946, 24 pages

Read online here:
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/th..."

I second this.

I nominate Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott. Published in 1866 under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. 117 pages.

I nominate Children of the Corn by Stephen King. It was originally published in March 1977, then collected in Night Shift in 1978. Approximately 50 pages, depending on source.

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark. First published in 1970. 103 pages."

Seconded

Seconding The Driver's Seat.

I nominate So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, available on OpenLibrary

or, if the above one will be disqualified, The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark.

Mela wrote: "I nominate So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, available on OpenLibrary

or, if the above one will be disqualified, The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark."

Kimberly already nominated Driver's Seat. You can both nominate and second (rule 8).

I nominate A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger

18 pages

I second Children of the Corn

I second The Beggar's Opera

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Kimberly already nominated Driver's Seat. You can both nominate and second (rule 8)"

So, I second The Driver's Seat and nominate So Long a Letter.

I nominate The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin. 52 pages, published 1834.

Thank you Maider!

I second So Long a Letter.

I second The Driver's Seat.

I second A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Current Status, please check for errors

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 48 pages, 1970
Kimberly - Sam, Cynda, Mela, Eggy, Shaina, Terry,

Children of the Corn by Stephen King, 50 pages, 1977
Aprilleigh - Darya Silman, RJ-Slayer of Trolls, Paula W,

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 24 pages, 1946
J_BlueFlower - Ila, Kimberly, George P,

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, 1980
Mela - Michaela, Carolien, Darren,

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, 18 pages, 1948
AiK - Dave, Terris, Jen,

Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott, 117 pages, 1866
Marilyn - Wobbley, Tina, sabagrey,

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, 52 pages, 1834
EvenB - J_BlueFlower, Irphen,

The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, 128 pages, 1728
Cynda - Maider,

The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins, 48 pages, 1852
Lynn -

Albert Nobbs by George Moore, 98 pages, 1918
Nike -

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, 15 pages, 1953
Irphen -

I second A Perfect Day for Bananafish.

Aprilleigh wrote: "I nominate Children of the Corn by Stephen King. It was originally published in March 1977, then collected in Night Shift in 1978. Approximately 50 page..."

SECOND

I second Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power

I second The Driver's Seat

Aprilleigh wrote: "I nominate Children of the Corn by Stephen King. It was originally published in March 1977, then collected in Night Shift in 1978. Approximately 50 page..."

I second.

I second A Perfect Day for Banana Fish.

I nominate Albert Nobbs by George Moore 98 pages, first published 1918.
About a transman living his entire life as a man until someone discovers a well hidden female body underneath the surface and the consequences of this discovery.
Wonderfully portrayed by Glenn Close in a movie a few years ago. I believe that the lives of transgender people are too often shown in media solely from the perspectives of transwomen and I think it's important to tell the stories of transmen as well.

I second So long a letter.

I second Queen of Spades

I would like to nominate Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, first published in 1953 and 15 pages

Second The Queen of Spades

I second Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power.

Marilyn wrote: "I nominate Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott. Published in 1866 under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard. 117 pages."

I second.

I second So Long A Letter

I second The Driver’s Seat.

I second "Politics and the English Language".

These seven are moving forward to the poll


The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 103 pages, 1970

Children of the Corn by Stephen King, 50 pages, 1977

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 24 pages, 1946

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, 1980

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, 18 pages, 1948

Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott, 117 pages, 1866

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, 52 pages, 1834

Poll winner Children of the Corn by Stephen King