Posted by Steven on 16/10/2011, 16:29:44, in reply to "Re: Nominations for 2012"
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Please look this over to make sure the books you nominated are are listed correctly. The listing is in chronological order by publication date, as usual.
Don't start voting yet. I'll wait until Guillermo narrows down his final selection and everyone has had a chance to review the list. If you want to make changes, you may still do so.
2012 Read Literature Nominations
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771, 375 pages)
Tobias Smollett (Scottish, 1721-1771)
Elective Affinities (1809, 272 pages)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832)
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846, 288 pages)
Herman Melville (American, 1819-1891)
The Moonstone (1868, 342 pages)
Wilkie Collins (English, 1824-1889)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished, 1870, 239 pages)
Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870)
The Eustace Diamonds (1872, 688 pages)
Anthony Trollope (English, 1815-1882)
Fortunata and Jacinta (1887, 848 pages)
Benito Perez Galdos (Spanish, 1843-1920)
The Good Soldier (1915, 256 pages)
Ford Madox Ford (English, 1873-1939)
The Eagle and the Serpent (1928, 386 pages)
English translation out of print
Martin Luis Guzman (Mexican, 1887-1976)
Red Harvest (1929, 224 pages)
Dashiell Hammett (American, 1894-1961) plus
Farewell, My Lovely (1940, 292 pages)
Raymond Chandler (American, 1888-1959)
The Tunnel (1948, 160 pages)
New English edition to be released 27 Dec 2011
Ernesto Sabato (Argentine, 1911-2011)
A Mind at Peace (Huzur, 1949, 464 pages)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (Turkish, 1901-1962)
The Sound of the Mountain (1949-54, 288 pages)
Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese, 1899-1972)
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love Life (1964, 240 pages) plus optionally
A Dead Man in Deptford (1993, 272 pages) both by
Anthony Burgess (English, 1917-1993)
The Abyss (1968, 374 pages)
French: L’Oeuvre au noir, Spanish: Opus Nigrum, also published in English as: Zeno of Bruges
Marguerite Yourcenar (Belgian-French, 1903-1987)
Here’s to You, Jesusa (1969, 336 pages)
Elena Poniatowska (French-Mexican, b. 1932)
Wild Thorns (1976, 208 pages)
Sahar Khalifeh (Palestinian, b. 1941)
Suttree (1979, 480 pages)
Cormac McCarthy (American, b. 1933)
The House of Spirits (1982, 433 pages)
Isabel Allende (Chilean, b. 1942)
Paradise of the Blind (1988, 272 pages)
Duong Thu Huong (Vietnamese, b. 1947)
Women without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (1990, 192 pages)
Shahrnush Parsipur (Iranian, b. 1946)
Persian Brides (1997, 236 pages)
Dorit Rabinyan (Israeli, b. 1972)
The Savage Detectives (1998, 672 pages)
Roberto Bolano (Chilean, 1953-2003)
The Dark Bride (1999, 368 pages)
Laura Restrepo (Colombian, b. 1950)
The Slynx (2000, 320 pages)
Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian, b. 1951)
The Ministry of Pain (2005, 272 pages)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatian, b. 1949)
The Book of Negroes (2007, 486 pages)
(US Title: Someone Knows My Name)
Lawrence Hill (Canadian, b. 1957)
Wolf Hall (2009, 604 pages)
Hilary Mantel (English, b. 1952)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010, 512 pages)
David Mitchell (English, b. 1969)
Room (2010, 336 pages)
Emma Donoghue (Irish-Canadian, b. 1969)
The Finkler Question (2010, 320 pages)
Howard Jacobson (English, b. 1942)
C (2010, 320 pages)
by Tom McCarthy (English, b. 1969)
The Prague Cemetery (2010, 464 pages)
English edition to be released 8 Nov 2011
Umberto Eco (Italian, b. 1932)
The Sentimentalists (2011, 208 pages)
Johanna Skibsrud (Canadian)
The Free World (2011, 368 pages)
David Bezmozgis (Canadian, b. 1973)
The Little Shadows (2011, 544 pages)
Limited US availability
Marina Endicott (Canadian, b. 1958)
Touch (2011, 264 pages)
Alexei Zentner (Canadian)
The Sisters Brothers (2011, 336 pages)
Patrick deWitt (Canadian, b. 1975)
Half-Blood Blues (2012, 336 pages)
US release 28 February 2012
Esi Edugyan (Canadian)
Mexican female author TBD
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