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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 2025 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.

Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

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 May 16

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

And Then There Were None
The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go

Tracking through message: 53
🌷Poll Candidate

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (381p) - 1
The Grapes of Wrath (496p) - 3
Educated (352p) - 4
🌷20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (112p) - 6
🌷Little Fires Everywhere (338p) - 8
🌷Northanger Abbey (260p) - 7
The Outsiders (214p) - 5
Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 3
🌷Neverwhere (370p) - 6
The Stranger (123p) - 3
It Ends with Us (373p) - 1
The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 4
The Martian (384p) - 5
The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 2
The Handmaid's Tale (311p) - 1
🌷The Underground Railroad (320p) - 6

I nominate:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 381 pages

I nominate The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (last read 2022; 496 pages), in the hopes it will motivate me to finally read it.

I nominate
- Educated - 352 pages

I second
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I nominate 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

I nominate Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, last read 2018, 338 pages

I nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 260 pages.

I nominate The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 214 pages.

I second:
Educated
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Northanger Abbey
The Outsiders

I second The Grapes of Wrath

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

First published in 1997.

434 pages.

Last read June 2016.

I second Memoirs of a Geisha.

I second:
- Northanger Abbey
- Little Fires Everywhere
- The Outsiders

I second Northanger Abbey.

I second Little Fires Everywhere and Northanger Abbey

I nominate Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 370p

I second Little Fires Everywhere and Neverwhere

I nominate The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pp

I nominate It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, 373 pages

I second Little Fires Everywhere and Northanger Abbey

I nominate The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune 394 pages

I second Neverwhere, The Stranger, and The House in the Cerulean Sea.

I nominate The Martian, 384 pages.

I second The House in The Cerulean Sea

I second The Martian.

I second the House in the Cerulean Sea

I second The Grapes of Wrath and The Outsiders.

I second The Outsiders

I second It ends with us

I second Neverwhere, The Stranger, and The Martian.

I second educated

I second:
Neverwhere
Memoirs of a Geisha
Educated

I second
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Martian
Neverwhere

Once again, I nominate The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, last read in 2016

I second:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Little Fires Everywhere
Northanger Abbey
The Outsiders
The Stranger
The Martian

I second The Joy Luck Club.

I second:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Joy Luck Club

I nominate The Handmaid’s Tale, 311pgs.

I second the Handmaid's Tale

I second Educated

I nominate The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 320 p. Last read by the group in July 2020.

I second The Underground Railroad

Here's a second for THE MARTIAN, thanks🧚‍♀️🙋🏼.

I second The Underground Railroad (again, lol).

I second The Underground Railroad

I second:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Northanger Abbey
Little Fires Everywhere

I second The underground railroad

I second Little Fires Everywhere

I second Neverwhere and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

I second Little Fires Everywhere