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Starting now or tomorrow we can begin nominating quarterly reads for 2021. Use this topic thread to do so. After we gather nominations then we will vote. Please try to choose books that are between 601 to 900 pages. If you want to nominate a book between 901 and 999 you can do so. I am just trying to save the longer ones for annual reads. I know that can be too long of wait. So we are flexible with our quarterly reads.

1. Metamorphoses (Ovid) - 723 pages
2. Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin) - 659 pages
3. Shirley (Bronte) pages 624
4. The Sorrow of Belgium (Claus) 608 pages
5. Land (Park) - can be rented on Kindle, 629 pages
6. The Devils (Dostoyevsky) - on Librivox as "The Possessed" 768 pages
7. The Viceroys (De Roberto) 627 pages
8. Pharaoh (Prus) - on Librivox 628 pages
9. Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey) - on Audible 627 pages
10. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe) - on Librivox 654 pages
11. The Betrothed (Manzoni) - on Librivox 720 pages
12. Green Henry - (Keller) 706 pages
13. The Once and Future King (White) -639 pages - on Audible
14, The World According to Garp (Irving) - on Audible 610 pages (there are shorter versions)
15. The Children's Book (Byatt) - on Audible, 675 pages
16.Buddenbrooks (Mann) - on Audible (on Librivox in German) 731 pages
17. The Mandarins (de Beauvoir) 750 pages
18. Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon) - on Audible 776 pages
19. The Discovery of Heaven (Mulisch) 730 pages
20. Mason & Dixon (Pynchon) - on Audible 773 pages
21. Islands (Sleigh) 778 pages
22. Peregrine Pickle (Smollett) - on Librivox 781 pages
23. Fortunata and Jacinta (Perez Galdos) 818 pages
24. The Magic Mountain (Mann) - on Audible, 706 pages
25. Parade's End (Ford) - on Audible 836 pages
26. Underworld (DeLillo) - on Audible 827 pages
27. The Making of Americans - Stein, Gertrude 926 pp
28. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Trollope, Anthony 890 pp
Vanity Fair - Thackeray, William Makepeace 867 pp
29. Castle Richmond - Trollope, Anthony 837 pp
30. Martin Chuzzlewit - Dickens, Charles 830 pp was a QR in 2014
31. The Goldfinch - Tartt, Donna 771 pp
32. - Banks, Russell 758 pp was a QR in 2016
33. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne, Laurence 735 pp
34. House of Leaves - Danielewski, Mark Z. 705 pp was a QR in 2016
35. Of Human Bondage - Maugham, W. Somerset 684 pp
36. Fall on Your Knees - MacDonald, Ann-Marie 672 pp
37. The Corrections - Franzen, Jonathan 653 pp
38. Midnight's Children - Rushdie, Salman 647 pp
39. Look Homeward, Angel - Wolfe, Thomas 644 pp
40. Finnegans Wake - Joyce, James 628 pp
41. Adam Bede - Eliot, George 624 pp
42. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wallace, Lew 620 pp
43. Amelia - Fielding, Henry 620 pp
44. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki 607 pp
45. A Fine Balance - Mistry, Rohinton 603 pp
46. The Woman in White (Collins; I recall this was a quarterly around 2012 maybe) 672 pages.
47. The Good Soldier Å vejk, 750 pages, previous Qrt read
48. Ulysses 810 pges, previous qrtly
49. Daniel Deronda, 796 pages
50. Forsyte Saga 800 pages, previous read
51. The Swarm, 881 previous read
52. Adventures and misadventures of Maqroll 700 pages
53. The Idiot, 768 pages
54. Celestial Harmonies 846 pages.


>900 pages
He Knew He Was Right (Trollope) - on Librivox 952 pages
The Recognitions (Gaddis) - on Audible 950 pages
Camilla (Burney) - on Librivox 992 pages

Kristel's reply gave me license to create a long list. Unfortunately, there are far too many books I have left in this page-range despite my progress into the list. I will be thrilled to knock another 4 of these off through quarterly reads. I plan to read at least 20 of these next year, anyway. Here are my nominees:

Metamorphoses (Ovid) - so overdue to read this one! - available on Librivox
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin) - on Librivox
Shirley (Bronte) - on Librivox
The Sorrow of Belgium (Claus)
Land (Park) - can be rented on Kindle
The Devils (Dostoyevsky) - on Librivox as "The Possessed"
The Viceroys (De Roberto)
Pharaoh (Prus) - on Librivox
Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey) - on Audible
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe) - on Librivox
The Betrothed (Manzoni) - on Librivox
Green Henry - (Keller)
The Once and Future King (White) - another I missed the 1st time - on Audible
The World According to Garp (Irving) - on Audible
The Children's Book (Byatt) - on Audible
Buddenbrooks (Mann) - on Audible (on Librivox in German)
The Mandarins (de Beauvoir)
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn) - on Audible
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon) - on Audible
The Discovery of Heaven (Mulisch)
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon) - on Audible
Islands (Sleigh)
Peregrine Pickle (Smollett) - on Librivox
Emile, on Education (Rousseau) - on Librivox
Fortunata and Jacinta (Perez Galdos)
He Knew He Was Right (Trollope) - on Librivox
The Magic Mountain (Mann) - on Audible
Parade's End (Ford) - on Audible
Sabbath's Theater (Roth) - on Audible
Underworld (DeLillo) - on Audible
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Over 900 pages (901-999)
The Recognitions (Gaddis) - on Audible
Camilla (Burney) - on Librivox

On Diane's list I have or am interested in

The Man Who Loved Children (Stead) - on Audible
The Glass Bead Game (Hesse) - on Audible
The Devils (Dostoyevsky) - on Librivox as "The Possessed"
The Children's Book (Byatt) - on Audible
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn) - on Audible
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon) - on Audible
Underworld (DeLillo) - on Audible

From the above list I have or could find online:

Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)
The Tin Drum (Grass)
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe)
The World According to Garp (Irving)
Julie, or the New Heloise (Rousseau)
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
Peregrine Pickle (Smollett)
Emile, on Education (Rousseau)
Parade's End (Ford)
Underworld (DeLillo)

Actually most of these are on my TBR Takedown shelf at the moment, so I won't know till the end of November which of these will carry over unread into 2021, but obviously only one of them could possibly be chosen for December's TBR.

Is there a handy version of the 1001 List that shows official page numbers? I'm sure some of the other books I want to read next year are in that size range, but if there is a list with page counts on our group somewhere I am not finding it yet today. Thanks!

Of Diane's list, I am most interested in:

Fingersmith
Mason & Dixon (I have a like(?)/puzzled relationship with Pynchon - maybe this one will tip the scales!)
The World According to Garp

I really enjoyed:
The Engineer of Human Souls

Here are the books in the >600pp range that I have not read yet and would like to get to in 2021. Since I went with the page counts from the editions on the Listopia list, I included some that on that list are less than 600pp, since they probably have longer editions too.

Gargantua and Pantagruel - Rabelais, François 1,041 pp
Gone with the Wind - Mitchell, Margaret 1,037 pp
Camilla - Burney, Frances 992 pp
The Making of Americans - Stein, Gertrude 926 pp
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Trollope, Anthony 890 pp
Vanity Fair - Thackeray, William Makepeace 867 pp
Castle Richmond - Trollope, Anthony 837 pp
Parade's End - Ford, Ford Madox 836 pp
Martin Chuzzlewit - Dickens, Charles 830 pp was a QR in 2014
Underworld - DeLillo, Don 827 pp
The Goldfinch - Tartt, Donna 771 pp
Cloudsplitter- Banks, Russell 758 pp was a QR in 2016
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne, Laurence 735 pp
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Mann, Thomas 731 pp
Julie, or the New Heloise - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 728 pp
House of Leaves - Danielewski, Mark Z. 705 pp was a QR in 2016
Of Human Bondage - Maugham, W. Somerset 684 pp
Fall on Your Knees - MacDonald, Ann-Marie 672 pp
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Radcliffe, Ann 654 pp
The Corrections - Franzen, Jonathan 653 pp
Midnight's Children - Rushdie, Salman 647 pp
Look Homeward, Angel - Wolfe, Thomas 644 pp
Finnegans Wake - Joyce, James 628 pp
Shirley - Brontë, Charlotte 624 pp
Adam Bede - Eliot, George 624 pp
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wallace, Lew 620 pp
Amelia - Fielding, Henry 620 pp
The World According to Garp - Irving, John 610 pp
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki 607 pp
A Fine Balance - Mistry, Rohinton 603 pp
The Golden Bowl - James, Henry 591pp
Quo Vadis - Sienkiewicz, Henryk 589 pp
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Smollett, Tobias 588 pp
The Adventures of Augie March - Bellow, Saul 586 pp
The First Circle - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 580 pp
The Tin Drum - Grass, Günter 580 pp
The Mill on the Floss - Eliot, George 579 pp was a BOTM in 2019
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Brontë, Anne 576 pp
Them (Wonderland Quartet, #3) - Oates, Joyce Carol 576 pp
Dog Years - Grass, Günter 576 pp

Since we're being pretty liberal with the nominations, here are the ones I own in book or audio that I would most want to vote for:

The Good Soldier Å vejk
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
Daniel Deronda
Martin Chuzzlewit
Forsyte Saga
The Swarm
The Mandarins

As usual, I always have a look on what lies on my TBR shelf before nominating or voting. Here are my candidates this year:

Metamorphoses (Ovid)
The Betrothed (Manzoni)
Indian Summer (Stifter)
The Woman in White (Collins; I recall this was a quarterly around 2012 maybe)
Finnegans Wake (Joyce; we did Ulysses around 2015, only a few of us survived :) )
The Glass-Bead Game (Hesse; might not qualify but has 637 pages in French)
The Children's Book (Byatt; don't throw any bricks, please; it has to be done and been on my TBR since 2011)

I have the The Good Soldier Å vejk on my 2020 Randomizer list, and don't think I will get to it before year's end. I would like to read this.

I have The Woman in White in the giant, tottering pile of owned books. It's always good to read one from the RL pile.

My nominations (from my shelves)
1. House of Leaves (past quarterly read, I failed)
2. Underworld
3. The Adventures of Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
4. Melmoth the Wanderer (tho would like to read that one this year)
5 Adventures and misadventures of Maqroll

I will second Life: A User's Manual (Perec) and The Discovery of Heaven (Mulisch) I already have copies and was planning to read them in the next couple months.

I would also second The Glass Bead Game, if this is allowed, but it is evidently a bit shorter than 600 pages. Maybe close enough we could allow it?
I also want to read Buddenbrooks.

11/02: So I'll stick with The Discovery of Heaven and Buddenbrooks with the other 2 being too short to qualify. I'd also like to read The Magic Mountain and The Idiot.
I'm planning to start The Savage Detectives in a few weeks if anyone wants to talk to me about it.

Valerie wrote: "I have the The Good Soldier Å vejk on my 2020 Randomizer list, and don't think I will get to it before year's end. I would like to read this.

I have The Woman in White in the giant, tottering pile of owned books. It's always good to read one from the RL pile..."

RL = Really Long?

I would like to nominate
Celestial Harmonies and The Idiot.

Patrick wrote: "As usual, I always have a look on what lies on my TBR shelf before nominating or voting. Here are my candidates this year:

Metamorphoses (Ovid)
The Betrothed (Manzoni)
Indian Summer (Stifter)
The ..."

I’m so glad I got Ulysses out of the way the last time. That’s one of those never going to read again books. Ugh.

I’d like to get to
The Last Chronicle of Barset
The Devils (The Possessed)
Green Henry
Indian Summer

I will second;

- A Fine Balance
- The Goldfinch
- The Corrections &
- The Idiot

Of the one's mentioned, I would really like to read The Woman in White plus could read any the following:
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason and Dixon
A Fine Balance
The Idiot
The First Circle
Of Human Bondage
The Good Soldier
Life: A User's Manual

I nominate
The Goldfinch
Underworld
The Golden Bowl
Midnight's children
The Children's book

If you have all of the 1001 books in your Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ TBR together on one shelf, an easy way to get pages counts is to add "number of pages" to your shelf settings. You can also order them from high to low or low to high.

Nominations will close on 11/24/2020 and voting will commense after that. Voting will go from 11/24 to 11/30. Six days? Is that long enough?

Do you want to vote for all 4 books or would you like the randomizer to pick one book from all the nominations? That way every book has at least one opportunity to be a quarterly read. Let me know your thoughts.

3 votes plus one random sounds fair. 6 days is enough for voting.

I agree.

Ditto


The word ditto comes from the Tuscan language, where it is the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of "said", as in the locution "the said story". The first recorded use of ditto with this meaning in English occurs in 1625.

I love words.....

Thank you Kristel, Jamie and Amanda I have sent you all links that should allow you to edit the spreadsheet. Any problems let me know :)

Gail wrote: "Ditto


The word ditto comes from the Tuscan language, where it is the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of "said", as in the locution "the said story". The first recorded..."

I do too! Thanks for sharing.

Another for The Betrothed (Manzoni). And Of Human Bondage.

Strike Julie or the New Heloise from my nominations since I just finished it. I doubt anyone else will be rooting for it.

I fully plan to read the following next year:

Midnight's Children
The Once and Future King
Adam Bede
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

But I have fully planned to read them for a couple of years, so it would be great if they were quarterly reads to help me actually get to them. lol

Diane wrote: "Strike Julie or the New Heloise from my nominations since I just finished it. I doubt anyone else will be rooting for it."

done.

Ready to take Votes. You may vote for up to 3 choices. Please order them in preference in case I need to do a weighted vote to decide the winners. You may place your votes in this thread. The randomizer will chose the 4th book from the list of contenders.

You have from the 24th to December 1st to Vote. Winners will be announced on December 2nd. Thanks to all for your nominations.

I will lead off the vote as an example.

Here are my votes in preferred order;

1. A Fine Balance
2. The Goldfinch
3. The Idiot

1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
2. Fall on Your Knees
3. The Children's Book

Here are my votes:

1. Celestial Harmonies
2. The Idiot
3. Fortunata and Jacinta

My choices:


1. Fingersmith
2. The Woman in White
3. The Good Soldier Å vejk

1. The Good Soldier Å vejk
2. The Forsyte Saga
3. The Mandarins

1. The Forsyte Saga
2. The Idiot
3. Life: A User's Manual

1. The Goldfinch
2. The Golden Bowl
3. Underworld

1. The Woman in White
2. The Idiot
3.The Children's Book

1. The Children's Book
2. Metamorphoses
3. The Woman in White

1. Underworld
2. Parade's End
3. A Fine Balance

1. The Betrothed (Manzoni)
2. Fortunata and Jacinta (Perez Galdos)
3. Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin)

1. Fortunata and Jacinta
2. The Possessed (The Devils)
3. Celestial Harmonies

1. Midnight's Children
2. The Once and Future King
3. Fingersmith

1. The Woman in White
2. The Goldfinch
3. The Children's Book

1. Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
2. Underworld (DeLillo)
3. The Goldfinch - Tartt, Donna

1. The Betrothed
2. The Woman in White
3. The Goldfinch

1. The Betrothed
2. The Children's book
3. Underworld

Last day to vote. Get those votes in, winners announced tomorrow. We have four strong contenders but your vote could change it all!

1. The Betrothed
2. Of Human Bondage
3. The Forsyte Saga
4. Fall on your knees

Winners of the 2021 Quarterly Reads and Randomizer pick. They also have been randomized to the line-up for 2021.
1st Quarter: The Goldfinch
2nd Quarter: The Children's Book
3rd Quarter: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (random pick)
4th Quarter: The Women in White