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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 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 October 16.

Tracking through message: 48
🎃= Poll Candidate

🎃A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 5
Far From the Madding Crowd (480p) - 2
🎃Howards End (318p) - 6
Dead Souls (464p) - 2
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 2
The Tell-Tale Heart (31p) - 2
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 4
🎃Moby-Dick or, The Whale (720p) - 5
🎃4:50 from Paddington (288p) - 7
The Plague (308p) - 1
🎃Emily of New Moon (339p) - 5
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 1

I nominate A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages

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

I nominate Howards End by E.M. Forster, 318 pages

I nominate Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

I nominate The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 201 pages.

I second A Farewell to Arms; Far From The Maddening Crowd; and Howards End.

I nominate The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (31 pages; published 1843).

I second Dead Souls and A Farewell to Arms

I nominate The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (510p)

I second A Farewell to Arms, Howards End, and the Metamorphosis

I second Dead Souls

I nominate Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 720 pages

I nominate 4:50 from Paddington, 288 pages

I second A Farewell to Arms, Howards End, The Tell-Tale Heart and Moby Dick.

I nominate The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 371 pages

Sandra wrote: "I nominate The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 371 pages"
Sandra, your book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50K ratings. Give it another try?

I second 4:50 from Paddington.

I second:
A Farewell to Arms
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Moby Dick

I second Moby Dick

I second Howards End

I second The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Moby-Dick.

I second The Tell Tale Heart

Sandra wrote: "I nominate The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 371 pages"
Sorry Renata I forgot to check

I nominate The Plague by Albert Camus 308 pages

I nominate Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, 339 pages.

I second Howard's End.

I second Emily of New Moon

I second Emily of New Moon.

I second Emily of New Moon.

I nominate None but the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler. First published in 1900;

74 pages

I second

The Plague
4:50 from Paddington
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate None but the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler. First published in 1900;

74 pages"

Kimberly, your book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings. Care to try again?

I second Emily of the new moon

I nominate Madame Bovary, 329 pages

Elina wrote: "I nominate Madame Bovary, 329 pages"

Elina, this book has already been read by our group, so it can be nominated in the Catch-Up topic. Is there another classic book you would like to suggest?

I second 4:50 from Paddington and Emily of New Moon

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

I second Moby Dick

I second Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

I second 4:50 From Paddington

I second
4:50 from Paddington
The Metamorphosis

A vote for Paddington

I nominate The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

I second 4:50 from Paddington

I second Howards End.

Was going to second The Marriage Plot, but looks like its 2011.

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides"

Kimberly, your book suggestion is a modern one, being published in 2011. Do you have a classic recommendation instead?

I second The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.