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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for August 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 June 16.

Tracking through message: 43
🌈Poll Candidate

🌈Tess of the D’Urbervilles (518p) - 5
🌈Black Beauty (245p) - 6
Père Goriot (384p) - 4
Franny and Zooey (201p) - 4
Inferno (490p) - 4
The End of the Affair (160p) - 2
🌈My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 6
🌈James and the Giant Peach (176p) - 5
Orlando (336p) - 2
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 3
🌈Cat’s Cradle (179p) - 6
The Good Earth (418p) - 3
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (438p) - 1
Go Tell It on the Mountain (256p) - 3
Down and Out in Paris and London (216p)

I nominate Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 518 pages

I second Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

I nominate Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (third time's the charm?). Published 1877; 245 pages.

I nominate Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac.

First published in 1835.
384 pages

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

I nominate Inferno, 490 pages.

I second Inferno.

I nominate The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 160 pages (depending on the edition)

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

I nominate James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, 176 pages.

I second James and the Giant Peach.

I nominate Orlando by Virginia Woolf Publ 1928. 336 pages
I second Père Goriot

I second Orlando

I nominate Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing pub 1959, 282 pages

I second:
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Black Beauty
- Père Goriot

I second Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

I nominate: Cat’s Cradle, published in 1963, 179 pages

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

I second Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Black Beauty and Endurance.

I second...


Pere Goriot
Inferno
The End of the Affair
My Cousin Rachel
Cat's Cradle

I second The Good Earth.

I second Franny and zooey

I second:
Franny & Zooey
Inferno
Tess of D Urbervilles

I nominate Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages.

I second:
Franny and Zooey
Inferno
James and the Giant Peach
The Good Earth

I second Black Beauty and James and the Giant Peach.

I second Uncle Tom's Cabin.

I second My Cousin Rachel

I nominate Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Pub. 1953, 256 p.

I second go tell it on the mountain

I second
Père Goriot
My Cousin Rachel
Cat’s Cradle

I second Go Tell It on the Mountain

I nominate Down and out in Paris and London, George Orwell, 216p

I second The end of the affair

I second Cat’s Cradle.

I second: Black Beauty, Endurance, Cat's Cradle, and Go Tell It On The Mountain

I second Black Beauty

I second

Cat's Cradle
Tess of the D Urbervilles
Franny and Zooey
The Good Earth

I second Black Beauty, James and the Giant Peach, and My Cousin Rachel.

Here's a second for Cat’s Cradle 🧚‍♀️🙋🏼

I second Orlando & my cousin rachel

I second My Cousin Rachel

I second James and the Giant Peach

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