ŷ������

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2023 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 ŷ������. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight February 16.

Tracking through message: 44
�� Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
��Tess of the D’Urbervilles (518p) - 8
��Howards End (318p) - 8
��The Island of Dr. Moreau (139p) - 11
Cry, the Beloved Country (316p) - 1
Cat's Cradle (179p) - 2
A Canticle for Leibowitz (334p) - 3
��Treasure Island (311p) - 10
I, Claudius (468p)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (240p) - 3
The Trial (255p) - 6
Cannery Row (181p) - 4
The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 2
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (576p) - 2
Things Fall Apart (209p) - 7

I nominate Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. First published in 1891. 518 pages

I nominate Howards End by E.M. Forster. First pulished in 1910. 318 pages.

I nominate The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. First published in 1896. 139 pages.

I nominate Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (316 p., pub. 1948).

I nominate Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 179 pages, published 1963

I nominate A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., 334 pages, published 1959; and second Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Cry, the Beloved Country.

I nominate Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 311pgs, published 1883

I nominate I, Claudius by Robert Graves (468p)

I nominate Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (240 pages) published in 1864

I second Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Island of Dr. Moreau

i nominate The Trial (255 pages, published 1925)

I second The Trial

I second The Island of Doctor Moreau and A Canticle for Leibowitz

I nominate Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages

I second:
Treasure Island
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Journey to the Center of the Earth

I second Treasure Island

I second Journey to the center of the earth, Treasure Island and The Island of Dr. Moreau

I second Cannery rpw

I second Howard’s End, The Trial, and Treasure Island

And I would like to nominate The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 182 pages

I second Howard’s End and Cat’s Cradle

I second Howard’s End

I second Cat's Cradle, Howard's End, and The Island of Dr. Moreau.

I nominate The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (576 pages). I second Howard's End, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Trial.

I second The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Trial

I nominate Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (209 pages) and I second Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Treasure Island, The Trial and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I second Things Fall Apart

I second

Things Fall Apart
Treasure Island
Cannery Row
The Island of Dr. Moreau

I second A Canticle for Leibowitz and Things Fall Apart

I second the Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau and Things Fall Apart.

I second The Island of Dr. Moreau.

I second Treasure Island

I second Things Fall Apart

I second Cannery Row, Howards End, Tess of the D'Ubervilles

I second the Island of Dr Moreau and Treasure Island

I second Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel. and Tess of the D'Urbervilles

I second Things Fall Apart

I second Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Howards End, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

I second Tess!

I second Tess, Howard's End, and The Trial.

I second Island of Dr and Treasure Island

I second Things Fall apart and Cannery Row