Posted by Friederike
on 6/11/2009, 19:24:22, in reply to "The List So Far"
76.70.95.140
Looks like a good list already! Well done. I have read at least 5 of the nominated books, but that is not a problem.
I am adding a few, keeping in the spirit of "classics" rather than books written in the last few years, and books I am planning to read at some time this year. These may make good complements to the existing list of recommendations so far:
Alexander Döblin "Berlin Alexanderplatz" German 1929, English ?, latest translation 2005
(1878 – 1957)
Stefan Zweig "The Post Office Girl", 224 p.
(German) 1982 (posthumous), NYRB Classics (April 15, 2008)
(1881 – 1942)
Patrick White "Voss", 464 p. 1957
(1912-1990)
Heinrich Böll "Billiards at Half-Past Nine, 280 p. German 1959. English 1994
(1917-1985)
Chinua Achebe "Arrow of God", 240 p. 1989
(1930 - )
--Previous Message--
: 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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