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

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

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🌷Poll Candidate

Far From the Madding Crowd (480p) - 3
🌷The House of Mirth (351p) - 6
🌷Black Beauty (245p) - 7
🌷The Red Badge of Courage (149p) - 7
On the Road (307p) - 4
🌷Franny and Zooey (201p) - 6
North and South (521p) - 5
A Little Princess (242p) - 3
Eugene Onegin (240p) - 3
🌷White Nights (128p) - 6
🌷The Martian Chronicles (182p) - 12
The Giving Tree (64p) - 1
Ulysses (720p) - 3
The Blue Castle (218p) - 5
The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 3
The Gambler (188p) - 1

I Nominate:
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

I nominate The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (351 p., pub. 1905).

I nominate Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (published 1877; 245 pages).

I nominate The Red Badge of Courage, 1895, 149 pages
I second Black Beauty

I nominate On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1957, 307 pages

I second Black Beauty

I nominate Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 201 pages.

I nominate North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages, 1855.

I second Black Beauty and The Red Badge of Courage. :-)

I nominate A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published in 1905, 242 pages.

I second The Red Badge of Courage.

I second The Red Badge of Courage and A Little Princess.

I nominate Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin.

First published in 1833.
240 pages.

I second Eugene Onegin.

I second Far From The Madding Crowd, The House of Mirth and North and South

I second...
Franny and Zooey
Eugene Onegin

I nominate Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297p

I second Franny and Zooey, the Red Badge of Courage, North and South, and On the Road

Theresa wrote: "I nominate Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297p"

Theresa, this book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50,000 ratings (see message 1). Is there another book you would like to suggest instead?

I second On the Road

I nominate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 128 pp

I second White Nights

I nominate The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182p

I second The Martian Chronicles.

I nominate The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 64 pages

I second White Nights and The Martian Chronicles.

I nominate Ulysses, 720 pages.

I second The Martian Chronicles

I second Ulysses

I nominate The Blue Castle byL.M. Montgomery (218 p)

I second The Giving Tree and The Martian Chronicles

I second the Martian Chronicles.

I second The Blue Castle.

I second Black Beauty, Franny and Zooey, White Nights, and The Martian Chronicles.

I second White Nights.

I second Eugene onegin!

I second:
The Martian Chronicles
Black Beauty
Franny & Zooey

I second
A Little Princess
The Blue Castle
The Martian Chronicles

I second Ulysses

I second The Red Badge of Courage, A Little Princess, The Blue Castle and The Martian Chronicles.

I nominate The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 182 pages, first published in 1905

I second:
The House of Mirth
Black Beauty
The Red Badge of Courage
On the Road
White Nights
The Martian Chronicles
The Blue Castle

I second The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I nominate: The Gambler , 188 pages

I second: The Martian Chronicles

I second The Gambler

I second The House of Mirth

Here's a second for Franny and Zooey, thanks🧚‍♀️🙋🏼.

I second
Franny and Zooey
White Nights

I second:
North and South

I second:
Ulysses
Far From the Madding Crowd
North and South
The Red Badge of Courage