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Welcome to another round of voting. The author choices for October are from Hrabal to Kehlman. Voting is open from the 15th through the 23. Winners will be announced on the 24th. Please review the list of authors and the books that are eligible in this post and don't forget to vote.

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Books Excluded:
Les Misérables, 1432 pgs Q 2013
John Irving
Portrait of a Lady >700 pgs, Q 2019
Jahrestage or Anniversaries, Annual 2022
Finnegans Wake, Ulysses>600 pgs
Zorba the Greek botm 2021


Authors
Bohumil Hrabal, Czech Republic
1. Closely Watched Trains, 85 pages

Victor Hugo, France
2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 510 pgs

DÆ°Æ¡ng Thu HÆ°Æ¡ng. Viet Nam
3. Paradise of the Blind, 2015 botm

Siri Hustvedt, USA
4. What I Loved, 370 pg, 2017 botm

Aldous Huxley, UK
5. Eyeless in Gaza, group Wishlist
6. Brave New World
7. Antic Hay, 2013 botm
8. Crome Yellow

Joris-Karl Huysmans France
9. ³¢Ã -µþ²¹²õ (Down There)
10. Against Nature

M.J. Hyland, UK
11. Carry Me Down, 2013 botm

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuba
12. Three Trapped Tigers

John Irving, USA; all selections >600, currently reading World According to Garp

Christopher Isherwood, UK
13. The Last of Mr. Norris
14. Goodbye to Berlin

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese/UK author
15. Never Let Me Go, 2009 botm
16. The Unconsoled
17. Remains of the Day, botm 2013, 2017 botm
18. An Artist of the Floating World
19. A Pale View of Hills, 2013 botm

Henry James, USA
20. The Golden Bowl
21. The Ambassadors
22. The Wings of the Dove
23. The Turn of the Screw, 2009 botm
24. What Maisie Knew

Storm Jameson - UK
25. A Day Off

Tove Jansson, Finland
26. The Summer Book, 2015 botm

Elfriede Jelinek, German
27. The Piano Teacher, 2011 botm

Zhang Jie - China
28. Leaden Wings

Juan Ramón Jiménez - Spain
29. Platero and I

B.S. Johnson - England
30. House Mother Normal
31. Trawl, 2019 botm
32. Albert Angelo

Samuel Johnson - England
33. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

David Jones.
34. In Parenthesis

Erica Jong, USA
35. Fear of Flying

James Joyce, Ireland
36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ernst Jünger, Germany
37. Storm of Steel
38. The Glass Bees

Ismail Kadare Albania
39. The Successor
40. Broken April
41. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Franz Kafka, born in Prague, Jewish
42. The Castle
43. Amerika
44. The Trial

Yasunari Kawabata Japan
45. Thousand Cranes

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece
46. The Last Temptation of Christ

Daniel Kehlmann - Germany
47. Measuring the World 2015 botm
48. Tyll

There it is, our list for October 2023. Which ones have you read, what would you like to read?

I've read 22. I have physical copies of Platero & I and The Golden Bowl on my shelf... but since Eyeless in Gaza is a group wishlist book, that might be a good one.

Glad Rosemary mentioned Eyeless in Gaza, its the only one i haven't read this time so going for that lol

I checked earlier in the day, and I can access Eyeless in Gaza through Hoopla. So, I am thinking this will be my choice for this month.

I have read 22 and will go for The Last Temptation of Christ because it is on my shelf.

I’ve read 31 counting the not included books and I am open to reading any of these
Antic Hay
Against Nature
The Unconsoled
A Pale View of Hills
Three Trapped Tigers
The Golden Bowl
The Ambassadors
What Maisie Knew
Storm of Steel
The Trial
Measuring the World.
My Hoopla doesn’t have Eyeless in Gaza so if that one gets voted in I will have to search for a source.

I have read 18 and could read Eyeless or The Last Temptation of Christ but would prefer to red one of the James that Kristel and I have not yet read such as What Maisie Knew.

I have the rest of Henry James's listed books in my audiobooks queue for this season, so I'd go for the lst 2 of his I have not read yet-
20. The Golden Bowl
21. The Ambassadors

or Aldous Huxley's
7. Antic Hay,

I haven't got a mail from you this month. Or maybe you haven't send them yet?

Nike wrote: "I haven't got a mail from you this month. Or maybe you haven't send them yet?"
I haven’t sent it yet, but feel free to vote anytime. I will send it probably Saturday.

Kristel wrote: "Nike wrote: "I haven't got a mail from you this month. Or maybe you haven't send them yet?"
I haven’t sent it yet, but feel free to vote anytime. I will send it probably Saturday."

Ok, no problem 🙂

I've already read 30 of this lot and there is only one on my TBR shelf (Artist of the Floating World, Ishiguro). I might use that month to deal with the quarterly read, unless an easy-to-find book gets picked.

I’ve read 13, the only Ishiguro I haven’t read is A Pale View of Hills. There’s nothing that particularly jumps out this month, so I’ll wait to see what gets picked.

I just bought What I Loved so that has my vote. I would love to reread Platero and I though. I love that book so much.

I've read just 13 of these, or 27%. There seem to be more than the usual number of obscure ones in this month's group, but also a few well-known ones.
I'm going to vote for Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The only J Joyce I've read before is the "Dubliners" stories and I'm interested in Irish writers since our visit there last year. Some of the others are in my to-read list, like Last Temptation... but pretty far down the list.
If a Henry James novel gets picked I won't be reading it.

George P. wrote: "I've read just 13 of these, or 27%. There seem to be more than the usual number of obscure ones in this month's group, but also a few well-known ones.
I'm going to vote for Portrait of the Artist a..."

I would really like a reread of …the Artist as a Young Man. I just picked up a used copy for the shelf.

Don’t forget to vote.

The winners are:
Popular Vote - is a tie
Randomizer - Thousand Cranes

Vote distribution
Ambassadors 1
Golden Bowl 4
Eyeless in Gaza 10
Last Temptation of Christ 4
What I loved 1
A Pale view of Hills 1
Young man as artist 10
Artist of the Floating World 5

I will set up a poll and you will have 24 hours to break the tie.

Please vote to break the tie. The poll is here. /poll/show/2...

The winners are Eyeless in Gaza - Huxley and a Thousand Cranes. The TBR number for September is #6

What will you be reading?

I will def be squeezing in Eyeless in Gaza..... since I voted for it! I read A Thousand Cranes some years ago. It might be nice to reread, but it won't be a priority.

A Thousand Cranes was beautifully written but I doubt that I will be doing a reread. I will need to try to check out a ILL copy of Gaza closer to October.

Excited for eyeless in Gaza, will def be reading.

I’ll be reading Thousand Cranes, I’ve had that waiting for a while. I quite like the sound of Eyeless in Gaza, I’ll see if I can fit it in after the other BOTM and my TBR takedown book.

I read Thousand Cranes two years ago. I'm not wanting to read Eyeless in Gaza now but probably some day. It's somewhat long and I have other irons in the fire at present trying to read more translations and books by women writers.
Hopefully we will pick Portrait of the Artist next time around but I may have read it by then.

I might read Eyeless in Gaza if I find the time.

I am looking forward to Eyeless in Gaza. A Thousand Cranes was BOTM innFebruary 2016 and I gave it 5 stars, though I noted that others did not rate it as highly