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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 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 April 16.

Tracking through message: 46
☂️Poll Candidate

☂️Journey to the Center of the Earth (240p) - 5
☂️A Passage to India (376p) - 9
The Good Earth (418p) - 4
☂️Black Beauty (245p) - 6
☂️Stoner (292p) - 5
The Three Musketeers (431p) - 4
Fathers and Sons (244p) - 4
Hamlet (289p) - 3
Mary Poppins (209p) - 4
Where the Red Fern Grows (272p) - 3
☂️The Blue Castle (218p) - 6
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 3
The Maltese Falcon (213p) - 1

I nominate Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 1864. 240 pages

I nominate A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, 376 pages, 1924.

I nominate The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. First published in 1931, 418 pages.

I second Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Good Earth.

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

I nominate Stoner by John Williams (292 pages).

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

I second Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Good Earth, and A Passage to India.

I nominate Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (244 p., pub. 1862).

I nominate Hamlet, 289 pages.

I second The Three Musketeers.

I nominate Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, 209 pages.

I nominate Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, 272 pages.

I second The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, Mary Poppins, and Where the Red Fern Grows.

I second The Good Earth, Black Beauty, The Three Musketeers and Hamlet! :-)

I nominate The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages

I second Stoner

I second:
Black Beauty
Mary Poppins
The Three Musketeers

I nominate The House of the dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -247p

I second “Journey at the Centre of the Earth”.

Elina wrote: "I nominate The House of the dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -247p"

Elina, 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?

I second The Blue Castle.

I second Fathers and Sons, and Where the Red Fern Grows!

Renata wrote: "Elina wrote: "I nominate The House of the dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -247p"

Elina, your book nomination doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50k ratings (see message 1). Is there another..."

Sorry for this! I don't have sth else for this month but there is enough we can choose from :) Thank you!

I second A Passage to India.

I second A Passage to India

I nominate: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages, first published in 1925

I second:
The Blue Castle
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Passage to India
Black Beauty

I second A Passage to India and Black Beauty

I second Stoner and Fathers and Sons

I second Black Beauty, Mary Poppins, The Blue Castle, and Mrs. Dalloway

I second Where The Red Fern Grows

I second
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Blue Castle
Mary Poppins

I second Stoner and Fathers & Sons

I nominate the Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

I second Stoner

I second Black Beauty.

I second:

The Good Earth
Stoner
& Blue Castle

I second a passage to India

I second Mrs. Dalloway.

I second A Passage to India

I second A Passage to India

I second...

A Passage to India
Fathers and Sons
Hamlet
The Maltese Falcon

I second The Blue Castle 😀

I also nominate Mrs Dalloway

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