Posted by Steven on 26/10/2007, 19:54:19, in reply to "2008 Ballot - Please vote by October 27" Five Votes Jane Austen - Persuasion Four Votes Sandor Marai - Embers Three Votes Julian Barnes - Arthur and George Two Votes Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss One Vote Honoré de Balzac - A Harlot High and Low No Votes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
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Everyone who nominated has now voted, and here are the results. Nine books received three or more votes and will be on our 2008 reading list. We will have a runoff to select three books from among those receiving two votes.
Mario Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
Irčne Némirovsky - Suite Francaise
Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
Miguel de Unamuno - Mist
Giovanni Verga - The Malavoglias (aka The House by the Medlar Tree)
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Ivan Turgenev - Home of the Gentry
Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh
Camilo José Cela - The Hive
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Kate Grenville - The Secret River
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Max Frisch - I'm Not Stiller
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Ismail Kadare - The Successor
Imre Kertész - Fateless
Vincent Lam - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
R. K. Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Tom Sharpe - Wilt
William Kennedy - Ironweed
Miroslav Krleza - The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
Leonardo Sciascia - The Wine-Dark Sea
Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne
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