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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2022 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 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight March 16.

Tracking through message: 73
â­� Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

Man's Search for Meaning (165p) - 7
The Godfather (448p) - 6
â­�Brideshead Revisited (351p) - 8
â­�The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (288p) - 12
King Lear (338p) - 3
Invisible Man (581p) - 3
â­�All Quiet on the Western Front (296p) - 9
Player Piano (341p)
The Andromeda Strain (347p) - 4
â­�Go Tell It on the Mountain (256p) - 8
â­�Mansfield Park (488p) - 10
Three Men in a Boat(185p) - 2
I, Robot (224p) - 3

I nominate Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 165pages

I nominate The Godfather by Mario Puzo 448 pages.

I nominate Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. 351 pages. First published in 1945.

I nominate The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages. First published in 1926.

I second The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Man's Search for Meaning.

I nominate King Lear by Shakespeare (142 pages) and second Brideshead Revisited.

I second Brideshead Revisited.

I nominate Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (581 pages)

and second The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

I second Man's Search for Meaning and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

I nominate All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, published 1929

I second All Quiet on the Western Front

I second All Quiet on The Western Front

I second All Quiet on the Western Front

I second All Quiet Western Front.

I second The Godfather

I nominate Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 341 pages and i second The Godfather

I nominate The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 327 p

I second The Godfather

I second Brideshead Revisited.

I second The Andromeda Strain

I second Man’s Search for Meaning, The Godfather, and King Lear

I second The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and All Quiet on the Western Front

I sixth? All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, published 1929. Let's make some noise for All Quiet on the Western Front!

I second Andromeda.

I second Man's search for meaning

I nominate No No Boy by John Okada, 260 pages

I second The Godfather
I second The Andromeda Strain
I second All Quiet on the Western Front

Andi wrote: "I nominate No No Boy by John Okada, 260 pages"

Sorry Andi, but "No No Boy" doesn't meet our well-read criteria of 50K ratings. Is there another book you would like to nominate instead?

Renata wrote: "Andi wrote: "I nominate No No Boy by John Okada, 260 pages"

Sorry Andi, but "No No Boy" doesn't meet our well-read criteria of 50K ratings. Is there another book you would like to nominate instead?"

I will see if I can find another one. Thank you!

I nominate: Go Tell it On The Mountain, James Baldwin, 256, 1953

I second The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The murder of Roger Ackroyd seconded!

I second King Lear and Go Tell It on the Mountain

I second Man's Search for Meaning.

I second Man's Search for Meaning

I second Go Tell It on the Mountain.

I nominate The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 448 pages

I second Brideshead revisited

LittleRedRidingHood wrote: "I nominate The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 448 pages"

LittleRed, "Master and Marguerita" was read by the group last year, so it can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-up topic. Is there another classic book you would like to nominate instead?

I nominate Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488 pgs)

Renata wrote: "LittleRedRidingHood wrote: "I nominate The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 448 pages"

LittleRed, "Master and Marguerita" was read by the group last year, so it can be nom..."

Sorry, I didn't know. Then I nominate Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, 185 pages. If this is something you have also read, I do apologize. The only other thing that comes to my mind is The Exorcist, but I don't think it qualifies. It was published in the 70s, if I'm not mistaken.

I nominate Lord of the Flies (182 pages)

Kylie wrote: "I nominate Lord of the Flies (182 pages)"

Kylie, "Lord of the Flies" was read by the group in 2019, so it can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-up topic. Is there another classic book you would like to nominate instead?

I second Brideshead Revisited.

Oops. I guess I wasn’t thorough in my search through the read shelf. I can’t think of another at the moment so I’ll nominate next time :)

I second Mansfield Park

I second The Andromeda Strain and All Quiet on the Western Front

I second Go tell it on the mountain