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It's time to vote for November BOTM.. Our authors are Irving through A.L. Kennedy. Voting will be open through September 24 and winners announced on the 25th. Please review the list of authors and their books that are eligible in this post. Comment, give your opinions, and then be sure to not forget to vote. Everyone gets one free vote but if you want more opportunity you can use participation points. See the thread on participation points on how to earn them.

HOW TO VOTE:
1. Make your choice or choices from the list that is posted here.
2. You get one free vote and if you have participation points you can have up to 5 votes. You can use them all on one choice or you can make 5 choices.
3. Send a Personal Message to either me or the shelf personality for Reading 1001
4. If you only comment here on your choice it won't get counted so don't forget to send that message.

Excluded books this month: Cider House Rules 900 pgs, A prayer for Owen Meany, The Portrait of a Lady (700+), On the Wings of the Dove, Trawl (2019 BOTm), Jahrestage >1700 pages. Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Green Henry,

John Irrving, US author, New Hampshire
1. The World According to Garp, 1978, 610 pages (It really is >600, but I included it)

Christopher Isherwood UK
1. Goodbye to Berlin 1939, 208 pages
2. Mr Norris Changes Trains, also known as The Last Mr Norris, 230 pages, 1935

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japan
3. A Pale View of Hills, 1982, 183 pages
4. An Artist of the Floating World 1986, 206 pages
5. The Remains of the Day 1989, 256 pages (BOTM 2013, 2017)
6. The Unconsoled, 1935, 535 pages
7. Never Let Me Go, 2005, 288 pages

Henry James, US
8. What Maise Knew, 1897, 275 pages
9. The Turn of the Screw, 1898, 121 pages, 2009 BOTM
10. The Wings of the Dove, 1902, 550 pgs, some editions
11. The Ambassadors, 1903, 528 pgs
12. The Golden Bowl 1904, 591 pages

Storm Jameson UK
13. A Day Off, 1933, 219 pages

Tove Jansson Finland
14. The Summer Book, 1972, 172 pages BOTM 2015

Elfriede Jelinek, Austria
15. The Piano Teacher, 1983, 288 pgs 2011 BOTM

Zhang Jie China
16. Leaden Wings 1981, 180 pages

Juan Ramón Jiménez
17. Platero and I 1914, 218 pages

B.S. Johnson England
18. Albert Angelo, 1964, 160 pages
19. House Mother Normal, 1971, 208 pages

Samuel Johnson England
20. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 1759, 224 pages

David Jones UK
21. In Parenthesis, 1937, 227 pages

Erica Jong US
22. Fear of Flying 1973, 461 pages

James Joyce Ireland
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916, 329

Ernst Jünger Germany
24. The Glass Bees 1957, 209 pages
25. Storm of Steel, 1920, 289 pages

Ismail Kadare, Albania
26. Broken April
27. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
28. The Successor

Franz Kafka
29. The Trial 2017 BOTM
30. The Castle
31. Amerika 2017 BOTM

Yasunari Kawabata Japan
32. Thousand Cranes

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece
33. Zorba the Greek
34. The Last Temptation of Christ

Daniel Kehlmann
35. Measuring the World 259 pgs

Gottfried Keller Green Henry > 600 pgs

James Kelman,
36. The Busconductor Hines 1984, 237 pgs
37. A Disaffection 337 pgs
38. How Late It Was, How Late 384 pgs
39. Kieron Smith, Boy, 422 pgs

Thomas Keneally
40. Schindler's List, 429 pgs

A.L. Kennedy
41. Looking for the Possible Dance 256 pgs
42. Everything You Need 543 pgs


Those are the books for this month. Please make comments and don't forget to vote. See instructions on how to vote. Posting of winners to be posted on the 25th so you have less time than usual.

I'd quite like to read another Ishiguro (I've read The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go)

I have also heard that Zorba the Greek is really good, and I'm intrigued.

I've been meaning to read Schindler's List/Ark for years, but I bet most of you have already read it.

I have read all but the following 4 books, which are (oddly) mostly by James Kelman:

The Glass Bees
Busconductor Hines
How Late It Was, How Late
Kieron Smith, Boy

I have read 19 and none of the others I own, so I will check if any of them are free somewhere and vote accordingly

Diane wrote: "I have read all but the following 4 books, which are (oddly) mostly by James Kelman:

The Glass Bees
Busconductor Hines
How Late It Was, How Late
Kieron Smith, Boy"

Same here- I wonder what it is about Kelman�
What I haven’t read:
In Parentheses
Storms of Steel
How Late It Was, How Late
Kieran Smith, Boy
A Disaffection
Everything You Need

I've read only 15 of these so there are several I could be open to. On my tbr shelf I have
An Artist of the Floating World
The Wings of the Dove
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Measuring the World
Kieran Smith, Boy

I DO have The Wings I f the Dove. It’s long, but James is easy to read, it would be good to knock of a bigger book, so I think that’s what I will vote for.

Excluded from the Randomiser:

Remains of the Day
Fear of Flying
The Castle

I have only read 6 of these so don’t really mind what gets chosen this month. As long as it is something I haven’t read and can easily get hold of I will read them. I would prefer something more modern but not too fussy.

Also have a bunch of Kelman's to read. I saw Kieran Smith, Boy on here several times and would be down to vote for that one.

Everything You Need.. Something that I wouldn't be likely to read by myself like never let me go.

I've read 8 from this list. I think that's the most I've ever had in these lists! I recently picked up a copy of Kelman's How Late it Was. I think I'll vote for that.

I have read 10 of these. I own How Late so I will probably vote for that but would be open to many others.

The Glass Bees sounds like it could be an interesting change of pace so it will get my vote.

Checked my shelf. The Wings of the Dove isn't there, so I won't vote

I can also do how late it was, how late if ppl are feeling that one

I've read 11 of these, a bit less than usual, but most of the others don't interest me much. I'm planning to read Storm of Steel some day and probably A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. No more Henry James for me. I would probably have to order a copy of How Late it Was and probably wouldn't do that since I have a bunch of others I've bought that I haven't read yet.

Is anyone else having trouble voting? I can not seem to message either Kristel or bookshelf.

Folks please be patient this month we may not be tabulating votes on our normal schedule. I was able to message Kristel but the 1001 shelf is not accepting messages. I will look into what is going on. Plus Kristel may want some family time so stay tuned.

I plan to post the winners on the 25th. I was able to get into the shelf personality. I only have votes from 3 people. One on shelf personality, and 2 to me.

Gail wrote: "Is anyone else having trouble voting? I can not seem to message either Kristel or bookshelf."

You're not listed as a friend. Somehow friendship got dropped? I think to message me or the shelf personality you have to be friends. I sent you a friend request. I did not check to see if you are friends with shelf personality.

I couldnt figure out how to vote. Should be under polls, right? Is it already closed?

Gail wrote: "Is anyone else having trouble voting? I can not seem to message either Kristel or bookshelf."

GR has changed the security settings again without giving info out beforehand it seems. Copied from one of my other groups:

Earlier this week Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ changed every user's privacy settings so that only friends can send them private messages.

You can change the setting back so that you can receive group messages and messanges from people you are not friends with. Go to your profile under the Settings tab, and under privacy settings there is a question about who can send you private messages. Change it back to "everyone".

Thanks Hilde. I will do that for myself and also for the shelf personality.

Thanks Hilde. I will do that for myself and also for the shelf personality.

Voting was very light this month. Either GR made it difficult or members did not care what they read in November. The winner by popular Vote is

38. How Late It Was, How Late 384 pgs

The Randomizer chose Zorba the Greek.

The TBR for October is #23.

Irem wrote: "I couldnt figure out how to vote. Should be under polls, right? Is it already closed?"

Voting is closed. The instructions are at the top of this topic. We cannot use polls as our list is too long.
For the future. Here is how voting is done;

HOW TO VOTE:
1. Make your choice or choices from the list that is posted here.
2. You get one free vote and if you have participation points you can have up to 5 votes. You can use them all on one choice or you can make 5 choices.
3. Send a Personal Message to either me or the shelf personality for Reading 1001
4. If you only comment here on your choice it won't get counted so don't forget to send that message.

Due to the GR update, I couldn't get my vote in and was away for the weekend so didn't really have time to investigate why I couldn't send a message. I will add the shelf personality as a friend though just in case something like this happens again.

I'm looking forward to reading Zorba the Greek, not too sure how I feel about the James Kelman one, will see if I fancy it come November.

Ginny wrote: "Due to the GR update, I couldn't get my vote in and was away for the weekend so didn't really have time to investigate why I couldn't send a message. I will add the shelf personality as a friend th..." I have made both myself and the shelf personality able to receive messages from everybody so hopefully it doesn't happen again.

Glad we got the message issue figured out- thanks Hilde. I went to my settings and reset to receive messages for everyone.
I have read Zorba and enjoyed it quite a bit. As I mentioned before, I will pass on How Late it Was. There's always next month, and I can work on my challenges.