Posted by Lale on 22/10/2009, 23:48:48, in reply to "Nominations for 2010"
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Here is what I came up with after hours and hours of study. It seems like most of the books that sound interesting to me are already nominated and otherwise I seem to be in a very choosy mood.
(I did not want to re-nominate the books that have already been nominated. I will vote for them. To widen our choices I wanted to nominate books that haven't been already mentioned. I apologize for the Canadian bent, I thought the more Canadian books make the list the more chances of having one in the top 12.)
1 - Esther (first published in 1884) - Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
2- Auto-da-fe - Elias Canetti (1981 Nobel Literature Laureate - Elias Canetti's background is interesting to me because his family was one of the thousands of Jewish families who were welcomed in Ottoman Empire upon their escape from Spanish inquisition.)
3- Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
4- Libra - Don DeLillo
5- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) (I wouldn't mind changing this to "An American Tragedy" if more people prefer that one)
6- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch (this book made my list at the very last minute. In its place I originally had Beggarman, Thief by Irwin Shaw but when I realized that it was a sequel to Rich Man, Poor Man, I deleted it and started looking for a replacement from the TIMES top 100 list. I had watched a movie on Murdoch's last years (alzheimers) which was very sad, and I have never read any of her books.)
7- The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence (Canadian)(this book is marked as one that put Canadian literature on the map.)
8 - Therese - Francois Mauriac (1952 – Nobel)
9 - The Origin of Species - Nino Ricci (Canadian)(21st century)
10- The Law of Dreams - Peter Behrens (Canadian)(21st century)
I hope I did good. I really tried to be diverse. This is the best I could come up with.
Lale
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