Past Nominations
Each month, the group randomly selects one member to make the next selection, but for many years the monthly book was selected from a pool of nominations submitted by group members. Therefore, not every deserving book made it to the schedule. Below is a listing of works that were previously nominated, but have thus far not been selected for reading and discussion.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
A Cat of a Silvery Hue by Robert Adams
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Armada by Ernest Cline
Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Dr. No by Ian Fleming
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Horse Destroys the Universe by Cyriak Harris
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr.
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Iliad by Homer
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
My Companions in the Bleak House by Eva Kantůrková
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Strangers by Dean Koontz
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarré
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle by Christopher Manson
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Hero by Perry Moore
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
There There by Tommy Orange
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Redshirts by John Scalzi
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Detective by Roderick Thorp
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Educated by Tara Westover
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
Black Maria by Kevin Young
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak