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August 2020 New School Group Read Poll
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 1968, 297 pages
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 1997, 340 pages
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, 1942, 212 pages
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 1988, 561 pages
Native Son by Richard Wright, 1940, 504 pages
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991, 371 pages
Independent People by Halldór Laxness, 1934, 482 pages
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Arthur C. Clarke, Arundhati Roy, Albert Camus, Jane Smiley, Richard Wright, Salman Rushdie, Halldór Laxness
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Arthur C. Clarke, Arundhati Roy, Albert Camus, Jane Smiley, Richard Wright, Salman Rushdie, Halldór Laxness
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Jun 24, 2020 12:15AM
To everybody who voted for A Thousand Acres: I'm planning a buddy read in the near future and everybody is welcome to join!
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I'm in on A Thousand Acres. It's clear it won't be anywhere close to winning this poll, and probably not a near-future one either.
It was a Pulitzer-winner.
I've read four of the books in this poll, including the leader; they were all good. Independent People was the most unusual one.
