Posted by Steven
on 24/10/2009, 13:40:17, in reply to "Re: Friederike"
76.187.110.226
The is NOT a final ballot. It is just a list of what's been nominated so far in case you would like to verify that I've correctly listed the titles you nominated.
The list is in chronological order by publication date. I haven't listed the nominator's name--would you like to see that? Is there any other information that would be useful?
In the past we've each cast twelve votes of equal weight. This is a simple system, but it doesn't allow for the fact that you may favor one or two books more heavily than your other choices. Casting your votes in priority order is one possible alternative, but it is cumbersome and somewhat arbitrary to do so with twelve books. So what I am thinking of doing is giving each person a "bonus vote" which they can use to vote twice for the one book they'd most like to see on our final list. What do you think?
I'm also planning some special instructions for the four instances where there are two books nominated by the same author. They would allow for an "either/or" vote so that an author isn't punished by having the vote split between two titles.
2010 Nominations
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768, 202pp)
by Laurence Sterne (English, 1713-1768)
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (1771-78, 304pp)
by Denis Diderot (French, 1713-1784)
Sense and Sensibility (1811, 384pp)
by Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817)
Nightmare Abbey (1818, 88pp)
by Thomas Love Peacock (English, 1785-1866)
Typee (1846, 180pp)
by Herman Melville (American, 1819-1981)
The Woman in White (1859-60, 720pp)
by Wilkie Collins (English, 1824-1889)
Esther (1884, 136pp)
by Henry Adams (American, 1838-1918)
Sister Carrie (1900, 512pp)
by Theodore Dreiser (American, 1871-1945)
may substitute An American Tragedy
The Immoralist (1902, 144pp)
by Andre Gide (French, 1869-1951)
A Room with a View (1908, 164pp)
by E. M. Forster (English, 1879-1970)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910, 235pp)
by Rainer Maria Rilke (German, 1875-1926)
Winesburg, Ohio (1919, 288pp)
by Sherwood Anderson (American, 1876-1941)
Ripening Seed (1923, 128pp)
by Colette (French, 1873-1954)
note: limited availability
Therese (1927, 320pp)
by Francois Mauriac (French, 1885-1970)
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932, 232pp)
by Miroslav Krleza (Croatian, 1893-1981)
note: limited availability except in expensive edition
Man’s Fate (1933, 360pp)
by Andre Malraux (French, 1901-1975)
Auto-da-fe (1935, 464pp)
by Elias Canetti (Bulgarian-Austrian, 1905-1994)
The Invention of Morel (1940, 103pp)
by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Argentinian, 1914-1999)
The Heart of the Matter (1948, 297pp)
by Graham Greene (English, 1904-1991)
The Kingdom of this World (1949, 190pp)
by Alejo Carpentier (Cuban, 1904-1980)
The Garden where the Brass Band Played (1950, 320pp)
by Simon Vestdijk (Dutch, 1898-1971)
also translated as The Brass Garden
Invisible Man (1952, 581pp)
by Ralph Ellison (American, 1914-1994)
Under the Net (1954, 256pp)
by Iris Murdoch (English, 1919-1999)
Memento Mori (1959, 228pp)
or The Girls of Slender Means (1963, 141pp)
by Muriel Spark (Scottish, 1918-2006)
The Violent Bear It Away (1960, 243pp)
by Flannery O’Connor (American, 1925-1964)
Rabbit, Run (1960, 320pp)
by John Updike (American, 1932-2009)
The Day of the Owl (1961, 136pp)
by Leonardo Sciascia (Italian, 1921-1989)
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962, 320pp)
by Carlos Fuentes (Mexican, 1928- )
The Stone Angel (1964, 318pp)
by Margaret Laurence (Canadian, 1926-1987)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, 304pp)
by Ursula K. Le Guin (American, 1929- )
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970, 144pp)
by Peter Handke (Austrian, 1942- )
Housekeeping (1980, 219pp)
by Marilynne Robinson (American, 1944- )
Little, Big (1981, 538pp)
by John Crowley (American, 1942- )
Money: A Suicide Note (1984, 368pp)
by Martin Amis (English, 1949- )
The Lover (1984, 128pp)
by Marguerite Duras (French, 1914-1996)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985, 348pp)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbian, 1928- )
An Artist of the Floating World (1986, 206pp)
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese-English, 1954- )
Libra (1988, 456pp)
by Don DeLillo (American, 1936- )
Mating (1991, 496pp)
by Norman Rush (American, 1933- )
The Blue Flower (1995, 240pp)
by Penelope Fitzgerald (English, 1916-2000)
The Unconsoled (1995, 535pp)
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese-English, 1954- )
The God of Small Things (1997, 352pp)
by Arundhati Roy (Indian, 1961- )
The Savage Detectives (1998, 672pp)
by Roberto Bolano (Chilean, 1953-2003)
The Glass Palace (2000, 512pp)
by Amitav Ghosh (Indian, 1956- )
The Human Stain (2000, 352pp)
by Philip Roth (American, 1933- )
Gilead (2004, 256pp)
by Marilynne Robinson (American, 1944- )
The Law of Dreams (2006, 408pp)
by Peter Behrens (Canadian, 1954- )
The Origin of Species (2008, 496pp)
by Nino Ricci (Canadian, 1959- )
Note: US edition to be released April 2010
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