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

Tracking through message: 57

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
��A Passage to India (376p) - 13
Dead Souls (464p) - 1
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (214p) - 3
The Mill on the Floss (579p) 2
��Robinson Crusoe (320p) - 8
White Fang (252p) - 6
Cannery Row (181p) - 6
A Murder Is Announced (288p) - 3
��One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (182p) - 7
��The Time Machine (118p) - 7
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (70p) - 3
Three Men in a Boat (185p) - 3
Stoner (288p) - 5

I nominate A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, 376p

I nominate Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. First published in 1842, 464 pages.

I second A Passage to India.

I nominate Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. First published 1961. 214 pages.

I second A Passage to India.

I nominate The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. Published 1859, 579 pages.

I nominate Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1719
320 pages

I second Robinson Crusoe and A Passage to India

I second Robinson Crusoe and Travels with Charley

I nominate White Fang by Jack London, 252 pages, published in 1906

I second White Fang

I second Robinson Crusoe and A Passage to India

I nominate Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, published in 1945

I second White Fang

I second Robinson Cruesoe

I second Robinson Crusoe, Cannery Row, A Passage to India and Travels with Charley. :-)

I nominate A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie (288 p., pub. 1950).

I nominate One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 182 pages.

Renata wrote: "I nominate One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 182 pages."
Great book! I second Ivan Denisovich

I second Robinson Crusoe

I nominate The Time Machine by H.G. Wells -118 pgs

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and A Murder Is Announced

I second Cannery Row and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I second The Time Machine and Cannery Row

I second The Time Machine

I second The Time Machine

I second A Passage to India and The Time Machine

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

I second The Time Machine

I second A Murder Is Announced and The Time Machine.

I nominate The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

May I nominate The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. My second goes to White Fang.

I second, the Curious Incident.

Ashleigh wrote: "I nominate The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham"

Ashleigh, Midwich Cuckoos doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50K ratings. Is there another book you would like to suggest instead?

I second The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories.

I second A Passage to India and White Fang.

Renata wrote: "Ashleigh wrote: "I nominate The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham"

Ashleigh, Midwich Cuckoos doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50K ratings. Is there anothe..."

Oh damn.
I will change to Three Men in a Boat

I second Three Men in a Boat

I second A Passage to India, Three Men in a Boat, and The Mill on the Floss.

I second Mill on the Floss, A Passage to India, and Robinson Crusoe.

I second Three Men in a Boat

I second One Day in the Life and Cannery Row.

I second White Fang

I second:
A Passage to India
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Robinson Crusoe

I second A Passage to India and Cannery Row

I second A Passage to India

I second A Passage to India, White Fang, and Cannery Row.

i second dead souls

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich