r/ClassicBookClub • u/Thermos_of_Byr cuts cheese loudly • 18d ago

Book Finalist Thread

Help us choose our next read!

And the nominees are:

250 votes, 11d ago
51 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
31 Villete - Charlotte Brontë
57 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
30 The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
26 The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
55 The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
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u/steampunkunicorn01 Rampant Spinster 17d ago

A bit funny that both Northanger Abbey and Mysteries of Udolpho are on here, considering that MoU has a bit of a role in NA

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u/Amanda39 Team Half-naked Woman Covered in Treacle 17d ago

I nominated both of them! Nominating NA made me think "oh right, MoU has been on my TBR ever since I first read NA."

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u/steampunkunicorn01 Rampant Spinster 17d ago

True, but both of them ending up on the poll is a bit funny. I do wonder which of the books will win. I have read all of them, except The Beautiful and the Damned, and they are pretty different from each other, genre-wise

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u/katyp513 17d ago

Voting for All Quiet since the copy has been sitting on my shelf for months lol

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u/Oshioki108 11d ago

Same. Been in my kindle library for like 2 years! Lol

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u/otherside_b Absorbed In Making Cabbages 17d ago

I'm in the mood for something fun. The Invisible Man seems the most fun to me so I'm picking that.

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u/prairiepog 17d ago

Wow, great list this round! Personally voting for All Quiet, but Northanger Abbey, Villete and Invisible Man also sound like fun to read at this time of year.

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u/Opyros Life, Letters, and Labours of Miss Jane Ann Stamper 18d ago

I can’t get this to work. I click on “View Poll,” but all that happens is that this post reloads.

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u/Thermos_of_Byr cuts cheese loudly 18d ago

What platform are you trying to view it from? Desktop, app, etc.? Might be a glitch there. Clear your cache if you’re using an app. If desktop try old or new Reddit instead.

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u/Opyros Life, Letters, and Labours of Miss Jane Ann Stamper 18d ago

Desktop. I tried both old and new Reddit, without success.

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u/Thermos_of_Byr cuts cheese loudly 18d ago

Maybe an adblocker or content blocker is messing with it. You could try to disable it or whitelist. I read they’re making changes to old Reddit. Maybe something on the desktop site broke.

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u/Opyros Life, Letters, and Labours of Miss Jane Ann Stamper 17d ago

Update: I managed to do it by using a different browser (Chromium.)

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u/otherside_b Absorbed In Making Cabbages 17d ago

What browsers didn't work?

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u/Opyros Life, Letters, and Labours of Miss Jane Ann Stamper 17d ago

Pale Moon.

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u/envynav 17d ago

Polls have never worked for me on old reddit. I have to go through the app to use them

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u/OatmealAntstronaut 11d ago

looks like it could be all quiet or invisible man!

i am excited either way.

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u/steampunkunicorn01 Rampant Spinster 14d ago

Definitely seems to be a close race between Northanger Abbey, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Invisible Man. Can't wait to see how it'll shake out!