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

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

Tracking through message: 25
❄️= Poll Candidate

The Sirens of Titan (224p) - 2
The Little Prince (96p) - 4
My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 1
Beowulf (259p) - 2
Go Tell It on the Mountain (256p) - 4
White Fang (252p) - 3
The Godfather (428p) - 3
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (438p) - 2
The Chosen (291p) - 1
I Am Legend (101p)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (518p)

I nominate The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 224 pages

I nominate The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 96 pages

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

I second The Sirens of Titan

I nominate Beowulf by Unknown , 259 pages

I second my cousin rachel

I nominate Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, published 1953, 256 pages

I nominate White Fang by Jack London, 1906, 252 pages

I second Go Tell It on the Mountain

I second Go Tell It on the Mountain.

I nominate The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 428 pages.

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

I second The Little Prince

I second white fang

second Beowulf

I nominate The Chosen by Chaim Potok 291 pages

I second White Fang

I second:
The Sirens of Titan
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Chosen

I was going to nominate Uncle Tom's Cabin, but I see it's already been done 😂

I'll nominate I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (101 pages).

I second:
The Little Prince
Beowulf
White Fang
The Godfather
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Oh, also, I second Go Tell It on the Mountain.

I second The godfather

I second The Little Prince, The Godfather and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

I second The Little Prince

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