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

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

Tracking through message: 43
⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐The Body in the Library (191p) - 8
A Hero of Our Time (185p) - 4
Twelve Years a Slave (363p) - 4
⭐Brideshead Revisited (351p) - 5
The Sirens of Titan (224p) - 4
⭐The Awakening (195) - 6
⭐My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 7
Howards End (302p) - 3
Stranger in a Strange Land (525p) - 2
Little House in the Big Woods (224p) - 1
Little Men (329p) - 4

I nominate The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie, 191 pages.

I nominate A Hero of Our Own Times by Mikhail Lermontov.

First published in 1839.

185 pages.

I second A Hero of Our Own Times.

I second The Body in the Library

I nominate Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 363 pages

I nominate Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (351 pages)

I second Twelve Years a Slave and Brideshead Revisited.

I second A Hero of Our Own Times and Brideshead Revisited

I second Brideshead Revisited.

I nominate The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Published 1959; 224 pages.

I second Twelve Years a Slave. I just put that on my Want to Read shelf the other day!

I nominate The Awakening by Kate Chopin, published in 1899, 195 pages.

I second:
Body in the Libarary
Brideshead Revisited
Sirens for Titan

I second The Awakening, A Hero of Our Time, and The Body in the Library.

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

I second The Body in the Library.

I second My Cousin Rachel

I nominate Howards End, published in 1910, 302 pages.

I second Twelve Years a Slave.

I second Howards End, Twelve Years a Slave, and Brideshead Revisited.

I nominate Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 525p.

I second Stranger in a Strange Land

I nominate Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (published 1932; 224 pages).

I second The Awakening

I second The Body in the Library and Howards End

I second Little House in the Big Woods

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second The Body in the Library

I nominate Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, published 1871, 329 pages

I second Little Men.

I second My Cousin Rachel.

I second Little Men

I second Little men

I second The Sirens of Titan and My Cousin Rachel

I second The Awakening

I second The Awakening and Stranger in a Strange Land

I second Howards End and The Sirens of Titan.

I too nominate The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie, 191 pages. I've never read and Agatha Christie novel!

I second:
The Body in the Library
A Hero of Our Time
Twelve Years a Slave
The Sirens of Titan
My Cousin Rachel
Little Men

I second: My Cousin Rachel

I second The Awakening

I second my cousin Rachel

I second The Awakening

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