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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2024 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 March 16.

Tracking through message: 42
�� Poll Candidate

�� Cannery Row (181p) - 12
�� A Doll's House (122p) - 5
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 4
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 4
�� La Dame aux Camélias (256p) - 5
The Woman in White (672p) - 4
�� One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (182p) - 6
�� The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 7
The Jungle (335p) - 1
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (720p) - 1
The Pilgrim's Progress (324p) - 1
Howards End (318p) - 4

I nominate Cannery Row published 1945; 181 pages.

I nominate A Doll's House, published 1879, 122 pages

I second Cannery Row

I nominate Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, 1959 282 pages

I nominate The Metamorphosis, 201 pages, published 1915

I second Cannery Row and Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

I second Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

I nominate La Dame aux Camélias ( Camille / The Lady of the Camellias ) by Alexandre Dumas fils (256 p., pub. 1848).

I second A Doll’s House.

I nominate The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (672p)

I nominate One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published in 1962, 182 pages.

I second Ivan Denisovich

I nominate The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy-182 pgs

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I second The Scarlet Pimpernel

I second Cannery Row

I Second La Dame aux Camélias (Camille / The Lady of the Camellias) by Alexandre Dumas fils - one of my favorite books for a long time💖

I second Cannery Row

I second Cannery Row and The Lady of the Camellias.

I nominate the jungle by upton sincliar

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I second a dolls house

I second A Doll's House

I second:
Cannery Row
Metamorphosis
Scarlet Pimpernel

I nominate Moby-Dick or, The Whale, by Herman Melville, 720p. I second The Metamorphosis, La Dame aux Camélias, The Woman in White, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I second
La Dame aux Camélias
The Metamorphosis
The Scarlet Pimpernel

I Second
Cannery Row
The Metamorphosis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Jungle

I second One Day in the Life of Ivan . . .

I second Cannery Row.

I second:
Cannery Row
A Doll's House
The Woman in White
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Moby Dick

I nominate The Pilgrim's Progress (published 1678, 324 pages).

I nominate Howards End 318 pages

I second Howards End.

I second The Woman in White and The Scarlet Pimpernel

I second The Pilgrim's Progress.

I second Cannery Row and The Scarlet Pimpernel

I second A Doll's House and Howards End

I second Cannery Row

I second La Dame aux Camélias.

I second Howard's End

I second Cannery Row, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, The Woman in White, and Howards End.

I second
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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