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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2025 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.

Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

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 August 16

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Sense and Sensibility
The Alchemist
Northanger Abbey
And Then There Were None
The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library

Tracking through message: 51
📖Poll Candidate

The Canterville Ghost (126p) - 2
📖The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 7
Giovanni’s Room (178p) - 3
📖Dracula (488p) - 7
📖The Jungle Book (277p) - 8
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 6
📖Something Wicked This Way Comes (293p) - 7
📖Frankenstein (288p) - 7
The Time Traveller's Wife (537p) - 2
Perfume. The story of a murderer (263p) - 2
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
Jane Eyre (532p) - 3
The Secret History (559p) - 4
The Shining (497p) - 2

Happy October :)

I nominate The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 126 pages.

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Last read December 2018.

406 pages

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

I second The Thirteenth Tale.

I nominate Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, 178 pages

I nominate Dracula by Bram Stoker, 488 pages.

I nominate The Jungle Book byRudyard Kipling, 277 pages, last read 2016

I nominate The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (213 p., pub. 2019). Last read January 2021.

I nominate Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, 293 pages.

I second The Jungle Book.

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes

I nominate Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (288 pages; last read 2021).

I second:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Nickel Boys
The Jungle Book
Dracula

I second Frankenstein.

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Nickel Boys

I nominate The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 537pp

I second Time Traveller's Wife.

I second The Time Traveler's Wife.

I nominate Perfume. The story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind. 263 pages. Publ 1985.

I second Dracula. Perfect for Halloween.

I second The Jungle Book and The Nickel Boys

I second The Thirteenth Tale and Jungle Book

I nominate Lord of the Flies, 182 pages

I nominate Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 532 pages.

I second:
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- Jane Eyre

I Second:
The Canterville Ghost
The Jungle Book
Frankenstein

I nominate „Dracula“, 488 pages

I second Jane Eyre.

I second Dracula and Frankenstein.

I second:
Dracula
The Nickel Boys

I second Giovanni’s Room

I second Frankenstein

I second Lord of the Flies

I nominate The Secret History by Donna Tartt (559 pages).
I second "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "Jane Eyre"

I second The Thirteenth Tale and Frankenstein.

I second The Thirteenth Tale and The Jungle Book

I second The Secret History

I second The Canterville Ghost and Giovanni's Room.

I second The Jungle Book and The Thirteenth Tale.

I second The Secret History and Perfume.

I second Dracula.

I second the secret history

I second Something Wicked This Way Comes

I nominate The Shining by Stephen King (497p).

I second The Shining.

I vote for The Jungle Book, The Nickel Boys, and Lord of the Flies

I second The Shining.

I second:
The Thirteenth Tale
Giovanni’s Room
The Nickel Boys
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Frankenstein
Perfume. The story of a murderer
Lord of the Flies
The Secret History