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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 2024 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 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.

Tracking through message: 46
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐Brideshead Revisited (352p) - 7
La Dame aux Camélias (256p) - 6
⭐Moby-Dick (720p) - 7
Pale Fire (246p) - 4
⭐I Am Legend (162p) - 7
⭐Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 11
⭐The Secret of the Old Clock (210p) - 7
Light in August (507p)
Little Men (329p) - 3
Waiting for Godot (87p) - 1

I nominate Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (352 pages).

I nominate La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias) by Alexandre Dumas fils (256 p., pub. 1848). It’s the novel that inspired the opera La Traviata, if you’re familiar.

I nominate Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 1851
720 pages
(I plan to read a "children's" version that is about 200 pages)

I nominate Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. First published in 1962, 246 pages.

I second Moby-Dick.

I nominate I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (published 1954; 162 pages).

I nominate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, 176 pages

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I nominate The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (210 pages). First published in 1930.

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I second La Dame aux Camélias

I second Nancy Drew, The Secret of the Old Clock

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I second the secret of the old clock

I also second The Secret of the Old Clock.

I second The lady of the Camellias

I nominate Light in August by William Faulkner (507 pages). I second Brideshead Revisited.

I nominate Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Moby Dick

I second:
Brideshead Revisted
Moby Dick
Little Men

I second Pale Fire, I am Legend and Brideshead Revisted

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Brideshead Revisted

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Moby Dick.

I second the secret of the old clock

I second I am legend

I second The Secret of the Old Clock.

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I second Brideshead Revisited

I second Brideshead Revisited

I second I am Legend and Moby Dick

I second La Dame aux Camélias, The Secret of the Old Clock and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Adrienne wrote: "I second Nancy Drew, The Secret of the Old Clock"

Second

I second La Dame aux Camelias and I Am Legend

I second Moby-Dick

I second:
La Dame aux Camélias
Pale Fire
I Am Legend
Little Men

I second Pale Fire.

I second Brideshead Revisited and Little Men

I nominate Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. First published 1952. 87 pages.

I second Waiting for Godot.

I second "La Dame aux Camélias" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

I second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I second:
Pale Fire
I Am Legend

I second I Am Legend

Thanks everyone—nominations are now closed, and the polls are open! Help us pick the next Classic read by casting your vote here.