Posted by Steven on 19/10/2011, 9:17:13
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We are now ready to choose our monthly readings for 2012. Please vote for up to 12 of the following books by indicating your choices in a reply to this message. You may vote for your own nominations, but you don't have to. Members just joining us are welcome to participate, but the voting will end as soon as all of the regular participants have voted. All of the books are readily available through Amazon US except as noted. Please check price and availability in your own country before voting.
2012 Read Literature Nominations
Listed in chronological order by publication date
Page numbers for a typical English edition are just to give you an idea of relative length
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771, 375 pages)
Tobias Smollett (Scottish, 1721-1771)
nominated by Sterling
Elective Affinities (1809, 272 pages)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832)
nominated by Sterling
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846, 288 pages)
Herman Melville (American, 1819-1891)
nominated by Guillermo
The Moonstone (1868, 342 pages)
Wilkie Collins (English, 1824-1889)
nominated by Sterling
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished, 1870, 239 pages)
Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870)
nominated by Steven
The Eustace Diamonds (1872, 688 pages)
Anthony Trollope (English, 1815-1882)
nominated by Sterling
Fortunata and Jacinta (1887, 848 pages)
Benito Perez Galdos (Spanish, 1843-1920)
nominated by Guillermo
The Good Soldier (1915, 256 pages)
Ford Madox Ford (English, 1873-1939)
nominated by Sterling
The Eagle and the Serpent (1928, 386 pages)
English translation out of print
Martin Luis Guzman (Mexican, 1887-1976)
nominated by Guillermo
Red Harvest (1929, 224 pages)
Dashiell Hammett (American, 1894-1961) plus
Farewell, My Lovely (1940, 292 pages)
Raymond Chandler (American, 1888-1959)
nominated by Sterling
The Tunnel (1948, 160 pages)
New English edition to be released 27 Dec 2011
Ernesto Sabato (Argentine, 1911-2011)
nominated by Joffre
A Mind at Peace (Huzur, 1949, 464 pages)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (Turkish, 1901-1962)
nominated by Guillermo
The Sound of the Mountain (1949-54, 288 pages)
Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese, 1899-1972)
nominated by Guillermo
Recollections of Things to Come (1963, 299 pages)
Elena Garro (Mexican, 1920-1998)
nominated by Guillermo
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)
nominated by Guillermo
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)
nominated by Guillermo
Here’s to You, Jesusa (1969, 336 pages)
Elena Poniatowska (French-Mexican, b. 1932)
nominated by Steven
Wild Thorns (1976, 208 pages)
Sahar Khalifeh (Palestinian, b. 1941)
nominated by Steven
Suttree (1979, 480 pages)
Cormac McCarthy (American, b. 1933)
nominated by Sterling
The House of Spirits (1982, 433 pages)
Isabel Allende (Chilean, b. 1942)
nominated by Steven
Paradise of the Blind (1988, 272 pages)
Duong Thu Huong (Vietnamese, b. 1947)
nominated by Steven
Women without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (1990, 192 pages)
Shahrnush Parsipur (Iranian, b. 1946)
nominated by Steven
Persian Brides (1997, 236 pages)
Dorit Rabinyan (Israeli, b. 1972)
nominated by Steven
The Savage Detectives (1998, 672 pages)
Roberto Bolano (Chilean, 1953-2003)
nominated by Guillermo
The Dark Bride (1999, 368 pages)
Laura Restrepo (Colombian, b. 1950)
nominated by Steven
The Slynx (2000, 320 pages)
Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian, b. 1951)
nominated by Steven
The Ministry of Pain (2005, 272 pages)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatian, b. 1949)
nominated by Steven
The Book of Negroes (2007, 486 pages)
(US Title: Someone Knows My Name)
Lawrence Hill (Canadian, b. 1957)
nominated by Lale
Wolf Hall (2009, 604 pages)
Hilary Mantel (English, b. 1952)
nominated by Sterling
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010, 512 pages)
David Mitchell (English, b. 1969)
nominated by Sterling
Room (2010, 336 pages)
Emma Donoghue (Irish-Canadian, b. 1969)
nominated by Lale
The Finkler Question (2010, 320 pages)
Howard Jacobson (English, b. 1942)
nominated by Lale
C (2010, 320 pages)
by Tom McCarthy (English, b. 1969)
nominated by Lale
The Prague Cemetery (2010, 464 pages)
English edition to be released 8 Nov 2011
Umberto Eco (Italian, b. 1932)
nominated by Guillermo
The Sentimentalists (2011, 208 pages)
Johanna Skibsrud (Canadian, b. 1980)
nominated by Lale
The Free World (2011, 368 pages)
David Bezmozgis (Canadian, b. 1973)
nominated by Lale
The Little Shadows (2011, 544 pages)
Limited US availability
Marina Endicott (Canadian, b. 1958)
nominated by Lale
Touch (2011, 264 pages)
Alexi Zentner (Canadian)
nominated by Lale
The Sisters Brothers (2011, 336 pages)
Patrick deWitt (Canadian, b. 1975)
nominated by Lale
Half-Blood Blues (2011, 336 pages)
US release 28 February 2012
Esi Edugyan (Canadian)
nominated by Lale
Note: We will also read Julian Barnes’ short novel The Sense of an Ending at some point in the schedule.
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