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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for January 2026 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 November 16.

Tracking through message: 39
🍂= Poll Candidate

Black Beauty (245p) - 4
The Waves (297p) - 1
Things Fall Apart (215p) - 4
🍂My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 5
The Sound and the Fury (366p) - 3
🍂The Three Musketeers (431p) - 10
The End of the Affair (160p)
🍂A Little Princess (242p) - 5
🍂Foundation (244p) - 5
The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 3
A Princess of Mars (186p) - 4

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

I nominate The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 1958
215 pages

I second The Waves

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

I second My cousin Rachel

I second My Cousin Rachel

I nominate The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
First published in 1929, 366 pages.

I nominate The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 431 pages.

I second The Three Musketeers.

I second The 3 Musketeers.

I second Things Fall Apart.

I nominate The End of the Affair written by Graham Greene (160p)

I nominate A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 242 pages

I second A Little Princess

I second Black Beauty, The Three Musketeers, and A Little Princess.

I nominate Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (1959) 352 pages.

I nominate Foundation by Isaac Asimov, 244p

I second the Sound and the Fury and the Three Musketeers.

Kelly wrote: "I nominate Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (1959) 352 pages."

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

I second Foundation.

I suggest The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 182 pages

I second Foundation, Black Beauty, and Things Fall Apart

I second The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I second Black Beauty, The Sound and the Fury, The Three Musketeers, and A Little Princess.

I nominate A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published 1912, 186 pages.

I second The Three Musketeers and Things Fall Apart.

I second:
The Three Musketeers
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Princess of Mars
A Little Princess

I second Foundation.

I second
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A Princess of Mars
My Cousin Rachel
Foundation

I second The Three Musketeers.

here's a second for Foundation,
and A Princess of Mars, thanks 🧚‍♀️🙋🏼!

I second the three musketeers

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second The Three Musketeers

I second Black Beauty and My Cousin Rachel

I second The Sound And the Fury

I second Things Fall Apart and A Princess of Mars

I second A Little Princess.

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