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

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 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 August 16.

Tracking through message: 48
📖Poll Candidate

📖The Yellow Wall-Paper (62p) - 9
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (182p) - 5
Black Beauty (245p) - 6
Things Fall Apart (215p) - 3
📖My Cousin Rachel (349p) - 11
Night (120p) - 8
Invisible Man (581p) - 6
Rosemary’s Baby (308p) - 5
📖We Have Always Lived in the Castle (152p) - 10
📖The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (108p) - 9
On the Road (307p) - 3

I nominate The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 62 pages. Originally published in 1892.

I nominate One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published in 1962.

182 pages

I second The Yellow Wall-Paper.

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

I second Black Beauty.

I second The Yellow Wallpaper

I second The Yellow Wallpaper

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 215 pages

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

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

I nominate Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, published 1956

I nominate Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, not the one by H.G. Wells that the group already read. It is 581 pages.

I second Black Beauty and Night!

I second My Cousin Rachel

Wow, great nominations so far. I second The Yellow Wall-Paper, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Things Fall Apart, and Night.

I nominate Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin, 308 pages.

I second Ivan Denisovich.

I second Rosemary's Baby.

I second Invisible Man

I second My Cousin Rachel

I second Night, Rosemary's Baby and Invisible Man

I nominate We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 152 pp

I second We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

I second Black Beauty, Night, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle

I second We Have Always Lived in the Castle, My Cousin Rachel and The Yellow Wallpaper.

I nominate The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 108 Pages

I second My Cousin Rachel, Black Beauty, and We Have Always Lived in a Castle.

I second The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

I second The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I second:
- Things Fall Apart
- My Cousin Rachel
- Night
- Invisible Man
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle

I second:
Night
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
My Cousin Rachel

I second Rosemary‘s Baby

I second The Yellow Wallpaper and Rosemary's Baby.

I second My Cousin Rachel

I second the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I second The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

I second The Yellow Wallpaper, My Cousin Rachel, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

I second
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
My Cousin Rachel
The Yellow Wall-Paper

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I second The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Yellow Wallpaper, Night and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

I second Things Fall Apart and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

I second Invisible man

I second The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I nominate On the Road by Jack Kerouac (307p)

I second Night and the Invisible Man.

I second On the Road.

I will also give my votes to My Cousin Rachel and Black Beauty.

I second On the Road.

I second My Cousin Rachel and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I second:
Black Beauty
Invisible Man
Rosemary’s Baby
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
On the Road

I second Sleepy Hollow.

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