Posted by Steven
on 6/11/2009, 22:48:59
76.187.110.226
Here are the books nominated for 2010. They are listed in order of publication date. This is the voting process:
1. You may vote for up to 12 titles.
2. In addition, you may designate one of those 12 books as your top priority by giving it a "bonus vote." The book receiving the bonus will be credited with 1 1/2 votes instead of just 1 vote (i.e. a tie-breaker). This should reduce the number of runoff rounds needed.
3. Post your votes as a reply to this message. Please do not look at other people's votes until you have cast your own; otherwise the person voting last has an unfair advantage.
4. Anyone may vote, including new members who did not submit nominations. However, the voting will end as soon as the eight persons who made nominations have voted.
The ballot:
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)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929, 400pp)
by Alfred Doblin (German, 1878-1957)
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)
Voss (1957, 464pp)
by Patrick White (Australian, 1912-1990)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959, 280pp)
by Heinrich Boll (German, 1917-1985)
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- )
Arrow of God (1964, 240pp)
by Chinua Achebe (Nigerian, 1930- )
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- )
The Post Office Girl (1982 post, 224pp)
by Stefan Zweig (Austrian, 1881-1942)
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- )
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003, 400pp)
Azar Nafisi (Iranian, 1955- )
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
Wolf Hall (2009, 560pp)
by Hilary Mantel (English, 1952- )
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