Posted by Steven on 19/10/2007, 0:55:34 The cutoff date for this first round of voting is October 27, but we'll allow more time for anyone who needs it. The list of nominees is in chronological order by date of publication. Post a reply to vote for up to twelve selections that you would like to read together in 2008. Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817) Honoré de Balzac (French, 1799-1850) Anthony Trollope (English, 1815-1882) Ivan Turgenev (Russian, 1818-1883) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Brazilian, 1839-1908) Giovanni Verga (Italian, 1840-1922) Samuel Butler (English, 1835-1902) Henry James (American, 1843-1916) Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936) William Faulkner (American, 1897-1962, Nobel laureate 1949) Miroslav Krleza (Croatian, 1893-1981) Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942) Graham Greene (English, 1904-1991) Sandor Marai (Hungarian, 1900-1989) Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek, 1883-1957) Alberto Moravia (Italian, 1907-1990) Doris Lessing (English, b. 1919, Nobel Laureate 2007) Camilo José Cela (Spanish, 1916-2002) Max Frisch (Swiss writing in German, 1911-1991) Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917-1986) Walker Percy (American, 1916-1990) Muriel Spark (Scottish, 1918-2006) R. K. Narayan (Indian writing in English, 1906-2001) Leonardo Sciascia (Italian, 1921-1989) Tom Sharpe (English, b. 1928) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936) John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-1969) Salman Rushdie (Indian writing in English, b. 1947) William Kennedy (American, b. 1928) Imre Kertész (Hungarian, b. 1929, Nobel laureate 2002) Penelope Fitzgerald (English, 1916-2000) Dai Sijie (Chinese-French writing in French, b. 1954) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian, b. 1977) Ismail Kadare (Albanian, b. 1936) Irène Némirovsky (Ukrainian-French, 1903-1942) Julian Barnes (English, b. 1946) Kate Grenville (Australian, b. 1950) Kiran Desai (Indian living in the United States, b. 1971) Vincent Lam (Canadian, b. 1974) Cormac McCarthy (American, b. 1933) Michael Ondaatje (Canadian, b. 1943)
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It doesn't appear that we'll have any further nominations, so we'll proceed with the next phase. Voting is not limited to those who made nominations. Anyone who would like to participate in our readings next year is invited to vote.
Persuasion (1817 posthumous, 272pp)
A Harlot High and Low (French: Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, 1838-1847, 554pp)
Doctor Thorne (1858, third book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, 524pp)
Home of the Gentry (1858, 208pp)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also translated as Epitaph for a Small Winner, 1881, 240pp)
The Malavoglias (also translated as The House by the Medlar Tree, 1881, 275pp)
The Way of All Flesh (1903 posthumous, 313pp)
The Ambassadors (1903, 528pp)
Mist (Spanish: Niebla, 1914, 352pp)
The Sound and the Fury (1929, 336pp)
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932, 232pp, possibly out of print, check availability)
The Street of Crocodiles (also translated as The Cinnamon Shops, 1934, 160pp)
Brighton Rock (1938, 282pp)
Embers (1942, 224pp)
Zorba the Greek (1946, 335pp)
The Woman of Rome (1947, 430pp)
The Grass is Singing (1950, 243pp)
The Hive (Spanish: La Colmena, also translated as The Beehive, 1951, 249pp)
I'm Not Stiller (1954, 384pp)
Pedro Páramo (1955, 254pp)
The Moviegoer (1961, 256pp, National Book Award)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961, 160pp)
The Vendor of Sweets (1967, 144pp)
The Wine-Dark Sea (1973, 224pp)
Wilt (1976, 256pp, possibly out of print, check availability)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980 posthumous, 416pp, Pulitzer Prize)
Midnight's Children (1981, 560pp, Booker Prize, James Tait Black Prize)
Ironweed (1983, 240pp, Pulitzer Prize)
Fateless (also translated Fatelessness, 1992, 272pp)
The Blue Flower (1995, 240pp, National Book Critics Circle Award)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000, 176pp)
Purple Hibiscus (2003, 320pp)
The Successor (2003, 224pp)
Suite Française (2004, 448pp)
Arthur and George (2005, 464pp)
The Secret River (2005, 352pp, Commonwealth Writers' Prize)
The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 336pp, Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award)
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2006, 362pp, Giller Prize)
The Road (2006, 287pp, Pulitzer Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
Divisadero (2007, 299pp)
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