Posted by Rizwan on 24/10/2009, 2:30:18, in reply to "My nominations"
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You all have made excellent recommendations. I would have no trouble finding 12 books from among these that I'd want to read, so I won't submit a full list of my own. Instead I'll just add two of the books I read in the last year that I absolutely loved and would love to read again. Feel free to consider or disregard:
1. The God of Small Things--Arundhati Roy
2. Gilead--Marilynne Robinson
--Previous Message--
: 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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