Posted by LadyPurple on 22/10/2007, 5:28:54, in reply to "2008 Ballot - Please vote by October 27" Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936) Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942) Alberto Moravia (Italian, 1907-1990) Doris Lessing (English, b. 1919, Nobel Laureate 2007) Max Frisch (Swiss writing in German, 1911-1991) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936) Imre Kertész (Hungarian, b. 1929, Nobel laureate 2002) Ismail Kadare (Albanian, b. 1936) Julian Barnes (English, b. 1946) Kiran Desai (Indian living in the United States, b. 1971) Friederike
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Here are my votes. We may want to introduce some form of weighting if we run into difficulties with the straight voting system.
Mist (Spanish: Niebla , 1914, 352pp)
The Street of Crocodiles (also translated as The
Cinnamon Shops , 1934, 160pp)
The Woman of Rome (1947, 430pp)
The Grass is Singing (1950, 243pp)
I'm Not Stiller (1954, 384pp)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
Fateless (also translated Fatelessness , 1992, 272pp)
The Successor (2003, 224pp)
Irène Némirovsky (Ukrainian-French, 1903-1942)
Suite Française (2004, 448pp)
Arthur and George (2005, 464pp)
Kate Grenville (Australian, b. 1950)
The Secret River (2005, 352pp)
The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 336pp)
Some hard choices!
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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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