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Authors for November are from Pelevin to Rider Haggard. Voting will be open today, September 15 through the 23. Winners will be announced on the 24th. The second book is chosen by the randomizer.

Please review the list of authors and the books that are eligible in this post. Comment, give your opinions, and most important, don't 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 and how to use them.

HOW TO VOTE:
1. Make your choice or choices from the list that is posted here.
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Excluded books this month.
The Clay Machine Gun, botm 2020
The Book of Disquiet, botm 2020
Pilgrimage (Annual Read) >1000
Fortunata and Jacinta > 800+ pages
A Dance to the Music of Time > 1000 pgs
Pharaoh, > 600 pgs
Remembrance of things past, Proust >1000
>600 pgs, Mason & Dixon, Gravity's Rainbow
>1000, Against the Day, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Clarissa
> 600 The Mysteries of Udolpho


Victor Pelevin, Russian
1. The Life of Insects, 176 pgs, 1993

Georges Perec, France
2. Life: A User's Manual, 1978, 581 pages
3. W, or the Memory of Childhood, 1975, 176 pages
4. A Void, 1969, 284 pgs
5. A Man Asleep, 1967, 138 pgs
6. Things: A Story of the Sixties
7. Things With A Man Asleep, 1965, 157 pgs

Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain (Canary Islands)
8. Misericordia or Compassions: a novel, pg 318, 1897

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spain
9. The Club Dumas, pg 362, 1993 botm 2012

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, US
10. The Yellow Wall-Paper, 1892, 64 pgs

D.B.C. Pierre, Australia living in Ireland
11. Vernon God Little, 2003, 279 pgs

Ricardo Piglia, Argentina
12. Money to Burn, 1997, 209 pgs

Luigi Pirandello, Italy
13. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, 1926, 160 pgs

Sylvia Plath, US
14. The Bell Jar, 1963, 294 pgs

James Plunkett, Ireland
15. The Trusting and the Maimed, 1955, 220 pgs

Edgar Allan Poe, US
16. The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story, 1839, 36 pgs botm 2010, 2012
17. The Pit and the Pendulum, 1842, 56 pgs, botm 2010, 2012
18. The Purloined Letter, 1844, 48 pgs, botm, 2010, 2012

Elena Poniatowska, France
19. Here's to You, Jesusa!, 1969, 336 pgs

Padgett Powell, USA
20. Typical: Stories, 207 pgs, 1991

Annie Proulx, USa
21. The Shipping News, 1993, 337 pages

Manuel Puig, Argentina
22. Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976, 281 pgs botm 2014
23, Heartbreak Tango, 1969, pgs 224

Alexander Pushkin, Russian
24. Eugene Onegin, 1833, 240 pgs 2014 botm

Mario Puzo US
25. The Godfather, 1969, 448 pgs

Barbara Pym, UK
26. Quartet in Autumn, 1977, 186 pgs
27. Excellent Women, 1952, 231 pgs 2016 botm

Thomas Pynchon, US
28. V., 1963, 547 pgs
29. Vineland, 1990, 480 pgs
30. The Crying of Lot 49, 1966, 152 pg, 2018 botm

Raymond Queneau, france
31. Exercises in Style, 1947, 204 pgs

Raymond Radiguet, France
32. The Devil in the Flesh, 1923, 127 pgs

Christoph Ransmayr, Austria
33. The Last World, 1988, 246 pgs

Pauline Réage, France
34. Story of O, 1954, 240 pgs

Liviu Rebreanu, Romania
35. The Forest of the Hanged, 1922, 326 pgs

Erich Maria Remarque, Germany
36. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929, 296 pgs, 2014, 2016 botm

Jean Rhys, Dominica
37. Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966, 176 pgs, 2010 botm
38. Quartet, 1928, 192 pgs
39. Good Morning, Midnight, 1939, 208 pgs, 2018 botm

Anne Rice, USa
40. Interview with the Vampire, 1976, 346 pages

Edgar Rice Burroughs, USA
41. Tarzan of the Apes, 324 pg, 1914

Samuel Richardson, England
42. Pamela, 592 pgs, 1740

H. Rider Haggard UK
43. King Solomon's Mines, 1885, 264 pgs
44. She: A History of Adventure, 1887, 317 pgs

That's our books for November. Which ones would you like to read. Gives us your opinions, thoughts, and wishes. And don't forget to vote.

I've read 11 of these, which is slightly above average for me.
And I have seven of the others.
Barbara Pym would be nice. Or the Pushkin.

There's only 6 I haven't read this time:

-Life: a user's manual
-The Club Dumas
-Vernon God Little
-The Trusted and the Maimed
-Here's to you, Jesusa
-V.

Would be open to any of them.

I've read a bit over half including the excluded ones.
I've read The Club Dumas of Amanda Dawn's list. I have none of these on my shelves so am open to what others will want to read.

I have read 26, including the excluded ones, which is more than usual for me. But apart from Poe I don’t own any of the unread, so I am happy, as usual, to go with the flow.

Like Pip, I have read 26 including the excluded. I only have The Club Dumas (Perez-Riverte) on my TBR shelf, so I'm 95% leaning towards this one.

I think you would enjoy it

I have read nine, which is below my usual average. I could do the Pushkin or The Club Dumas.

I have Pym's Excellent Women and Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman on my shelf. I think I will vote for Excellent Women.

But The Club Dumas was my TBR Takedown book for April, so I've read it recently enough that I would enjoy joining in with the discussion if that is picked.

Books excluded from the Randomiser that you will need to vote for are:
The Yellow Wallpaper
All the Poe
All Quiet on the Western Front

I’ve read 13 books but will vote for Vernon God Little from Amanda’s list.

I have read 16, more than my usual number. I have a copy of a different Pelevin novel I am planning to read soon- Buddha's Little finger. I'ld like to read Here's to You Jerusa which is on Amanda's short list.

Amanda Dawn's list that is

Winners for November

The winner of the randomizer pick was Quartet by Jean Rhys and
The popular vote (which was quite light this month) was overwhelming in support of The Club Dumas.

What will your plans for November include?

I've read The Club Dumas so I will be trying for Quartet. It used to be in my library but they must have purged it.

I have a copy of The Club Dumas so will definitely be joining that one, but I also quite like the sound of Quartet so will see if I can get a reasonably priced copy.

My local library has neither book, but I can get copies of both books through the library from the local college, so I will be reading both.

Excited to read the Club Dumas, and have already read Quartet and going to pass on that one.

I'll definitely read Club Dumas. Not ready to shell out $36 for Quartet though. In November, I'll probably be close to finishing Moby Dick and should be able to finish my 11th TBR book.

I have read and enjoyed The Club Dumas but haven’t read Quartet and it is on Open Library so will definitely read that.

I might read The Club Dumas. It has better average ratings than Quartet but is longer. I have already read 1 or 2 by Rhys. I liked the the review of club Dumas by Kristel. The Kindle of Club Dumas is just $7 US I noticed but my county library has a couple copies.

I've got a used copy of Club Dumas around here somewhere so I'll try to squeeze that in.

I have read Club Dumas looks like I can get hold of Quartet so I will be going for that