ŷ������

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2021 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 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 ŷ������. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight March 16.

Tracking through message: 65
⭐Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

��The War of the Worlds (192) - 11
��Great Expectations (505) - 10
��The Phantom of the Opera (360) - 13
��The Age of Innocence (293) - 10
The Fountainhead (753) - 1
Wide Sargasso Sea (171) - 1
Howards End (359) - 7
The Stranger (123) - 7
The Price of Salt: Or Carol (256) - 2
Wise Blood (256)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146) - 2
David Copperfield (882)
The Three Musketeers (625) - 1
Mansfield Park (488)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (518) - 1
The Master and Margarita (372) - 2

The War of the Worlds

192 pgs

I nominate Great Expectations (505 pages) by Charles Dickens, first published in 1861.

The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux (first published 1909)
360 pgs

I second The War of the Worlds

I second The Phantom of the Opera and Great Expectations.

I nominate The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (293 p)

#Fountainhead
753 Pages

I second the Age of Innocence and Great Expectations

The Phantom of the Opera

I nominate Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

No. of pages: 171 pages.

I nominate Howard’s End by E.M. Forster, (359 pgs)

I second Howards End.

I would also like to second Howards End. :)

I second Great expectations.

I second Great Expectations and Howards End.
I nominate The Stranger (also known as The Outsider) by Albert Camus (123 pages).

I second War of the Worlds and The Stranger

I second The Age of Innocence

Nominating A Tale of Two Cities, seconding The War of the Worlds.

I second The Strangefr

Cheryl wrote: "Nominating A Tale of Two Cities, seconding The War of the Worlds."

Cheryl, A Tale of Two Cities was read by the group in 2017, but you can nominate it in the Catch-up thread here: /topic/show/...

I second Phantom of the Opera.

I second The Stranger

I nominate The Price of Salt: Or Carol by Claire Morgan pseudonym for Patricia Highsmith

I second the Fountainhead

I second the The Price of Salt: Or Carol and The Phantom of the Opera.

I will second Howards End

�����ٱ�ڲ���í�� wrote: "I second the The Price of Salt: Or Carol and The Phantom of the Opera."

Thankyou �����ٱ�ڲ���í��! 🙂

I second Phantom of the Opera

I second The Age of Innocence

I second The Phantom of the Opera

I second the Age of Innocence, Howards End and Great Expectations

I second The Stranger and The Age of Innocence.

I second The Age of Innocence and Wide Sargasso Sea.

Seconding Age of Innocence

I second Age of Innocence

I second howards end

I'll nominate Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor & second The War of the Worlds

My nomination is We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson, page count 146

I second The Phantom of the Opera

I nominate Great Expectations

I nominate David Copperfield (882 pages)
and I second The War of the Worlds and The Age of Innocence

Second Phantom of the Opera

I second The Phantom of the Opera.

I nominate The Three Musketeers (625p)

I second The Phantom of the Opera

I second The Three Musketeers, Howard's End, and Great Expectations.

I nominate Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488 p).

I second Phantom of the Opera.

I second The Age of Innocence and Great Expectations.