Posted by Steven on 19/10/2007, 0:59:19, in reply to "2008 Ballot - Please vote by October 27" Jane Austen - Persuasion
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My votes are:
Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
Sandor Marai - Embers
Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
Camilo José Cela - The Hive
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower
Irène Némirovsky - Suite Francaise
Julian Barnes - Arthur and George
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
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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.
:
: 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)
: Persuasion (1817 posthumous, 272pp)
:
: Honoré de Balzac (French, 1799-1850)
: A Harlot High and Low (French: Splendeurs et
: misères des courtisanes , 1838-1847, 554pp)
:
: Anthony Trollope (English, 1815-1882)
: Doctor Thorne (1858, third book in the Chronicles of
: Barsetshire, 524pp)
:
: Ivan Turgenev (Russian, 1818-1883)
: Home of the Gentry (1858, 208pp)
:
: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Brazilian, 1839-1908)
: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also
: translated as Epitaph for a Small Winner, 1881,
: 240pp)
:
: Giovanni Verga (Italian, 1840-1922)
: The Malavoglias (also translated as The House by
: the Medlar Tree, 1881, 275pp)
:
: Samuel Butler (English, 1835-1902)
: The Way of All Flesh (1903 posthumous, 313pp)
:
: Henry James (American, 1843-1916)
: The Ambassadors (1903, 528pp)
:
: Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936)
: Mist (Spanish: Niebla , 1914, 352pp)
:
: William Faulkner (American, 1897-1962, Nobel laureate
: 1949)
: The Sound and the Fury (1929, 336pp)
:
: Miroslav Krleza (Croatian, 1893-1981)
: The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932, 232pp,
: possibly out of print, check availability)
:
: Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942)
: The Street of Crocodiles (also translated as The
: Cinnamon Shops , 1934, 160pp)
:
: Graham Greene (English, 1904-1991)
: Brighton Rock (1938, 282pp)
:
: Sandor Marai (Hungarian, 1900-1989)
: Embers (1942, 224pp)
:
: Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek, 1883-1957)
: Zorba the Greek (1946, 335pp)
:
: Alberto Moravia (Italian, 1907-1990)
: The Woman of Rome (1947, 430pp)
:
: Doris Lessing (English, b. 1919, Nobel Laureate 2007)
: The Grass is Singing (1950, 243pp)
:
: Camilo José Cela (Spanish, 1916-2002)
: The Hive (Spanish: La Colmena , also translated as
: The Beehive, 1951, 249pp)
:
: Max Frisch (Swiss writing in German, 1911-1991)
: I'm Not Stiller (1954, 384pp)
:
: Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917-1986)
: Pedro Páramo (1955, 254pp)
:
: Walker Percy (American, 1916-1990)
: The Moviegoer (1961, 256pp, National Book Award)
:
: Muriel Spark (Scottish, 1918-2006)
: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961, 160pp)
:
: R. K. Narayan (Indian writing in English, 1906-2001)
: The Vendor of Sweets (1967, 144pp)
:
: Leonardo Sciascia (Italian, 1921-1989)
: The Wine-Dark Sea (1973, 224pp)
:
: Tom Sharpe (English, b. 1928)
: Wilt (1976, 256pp, possibly out of print, check
: availability)
:
: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936)
: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
:
: John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-1969)
: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980 posthumous, 416pp,
: Pulitzer Prize)
:
: Salman Rushdie (Indian writing in English, b. 1947)
: Midnight's Children (1981, 560pp, Booker Prize,
: James Tait Black Prize)
:
: William Kennedy (American, b. 1928)
: Ironweed (1983, 240pp, Pulitzer Prize)
:
: Imre Kertész (Hungarian, b. 1929, Nobel laureate 2002)
: Fateless (also translated Fatelessness , 1992,
: 272pp)
:
: Penelope Fitzgerald (English, 1916-2000)
: The Blue Flower (1995, 240pp, National Book Critics
: Circle Award)
:
: Dai Sijie (Chinese-French writing in French, b. 1954)
: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000,
: 176pp)
:
: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian, b. 1977)
: Purple Hibiscus (2003, 320pp)
:
: Ismail Kadare (Albanian, b. 1936)
: The Successor (2003, 224pp)
:
: Irène Némirovsky (Ukrainian-French, 1903-1942)
: Suite Française (2004, 448pp)
:
: Julian Barnes (English, b. 1946)
: Arthur and George (2005, 464pp)
:
: Kate Grenville (Australian, b. 1950)
: The Secret River (2005, 352pp, Commonwealth Writers'
: Prize)
:
: Kiran Desai (Indian living in the United States, b.
: 1971)
: The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 336pp, Booker Prize,
: National Book Critics Circle Award)
:
: Vincent Lam (Canadian, b. 1974)
: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2006, 362pp,
: Giller Prize)
:
: Cormac McCarthy (American, b. 1933)
: The Road (2006, 287pp, Pulitzer Prize, James Tait
: Black Memorial Prize)
:
: Michael Ondaatje (Canadian, b. 1943)
: Divisadero (2007, 299pp)
:
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