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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 March 16.

Tracking through message: 43
🍀Poll Candidate

🍀A Hero of Our Time (185p) - 5
The Prince and the Pauper (240p) - 3
🍀The Awakening (195p) - 4
🍀The Martian Chronicles (182p) - 6
Dr. Zhivago (592p) - 2
🍀My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 10
Native Son (504p) - 2
🍀Far From the Madding Crowd (480p) - 4
The Good Earth (418p) - 3
A Separate Peace (208p) - 3
Villette (573p) - 1
The Mysterious Island (524p) - 1
A Little Princess (242p) - 1

I nominate A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.
First published 1839.
185 pages

I second A hero of our time

I nominate The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, 240 pg

I nominate The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pp

I second A hero of our time

I second A Hero of Our Time and The Awakening.

I nominate The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages.

I nominate Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, published in 1957, 592 pages

I second The Martian Chronicles

I nominate My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, published 1951, 349 pages.

I second Dr. Zhivago.

I nominate Native Son by Richard Wright 1940, 504 pages

I nominate Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages.

I second My Cousin Rachel

I nominate The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, published 1931, 418 pages.

I second The Prince and the Pauper, The Martian Chronicles and My Cousin Rachel.

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second The Prince and the Pauper and The Good Earth.

I second Dr Zhivago, Native Son, and The Good Earth.

I nominate A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 208p.

I second A Separate Peace.

I second Far From the Madding Crowd

I second A Separate Peace and My Cousin Rachel

I second:
The Prince and the Pauper
The Awakening
The Martian Chronicles

I second The Good Earth

I nominate Villette by Charlotte Brontë (573 pages)

I second Native Son

I second My Cousin Rachel

I'll nominate The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 524 pgs.

I nominate A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (published 1905; 242 pages).

I second The Martian Chronicles.

I second The Mysterious Island

I second
The Martian Chronicles,
My Cousin Rachel
A Hero of Our Time

I second my cousin Rachel

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second The Awakening
Far from the Madding Crowd and
Villette

I second The Martian Chronicles.

I second Far from the Maddening Crowd

I second Far From the Madding Crowd

I second A Hero of Our Time

I second a little princess

I second The Awakening and A Separate Peace

I second, My Cousin Rachel

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