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Welcome to another round of voting. The author choices for December are from Cunningham to Dick. 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:
The Hours - Michael Cunningham, botm 2021
Une Vie, 2021 botm
House of Leaves 710 pgs
Lost Illusions, >600 pages
The Mandarins >700 pages
Don Quixote > 1000 pages
The Viceroys >600 pages

Michael Cunningham, US author
1. A Home at the End of the World, 342 pages

Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy
2. The Child Of Pleasure, 384 pgs

David Dabydeen, Guyana
3. Disappearance, 180 pages

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe
4. Nervous Conditions, botm 2015, 2017

Robertson Davies, Canada
5. Fifth Business

Lydia Davis, US
6. The End of the Story, 231 pgs

Machado de Assis, Brazil
7. Dom Casmurro, 2017 botm
8. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Honoré de Balzac, France
9. Le Père Goriot, 2010 botm
10. Eugénie Grandet

Louis de Bernières, England
11. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
12. Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Alain de Botton, Switzerland
13. On Love

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
14. The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda

Giorgio de Chirico, Italian, born in Greece
15. Hebdomeros: A Novel

Madame de La Fayette, France
16. La Princesse de Clèves

Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguay
17. Maldoror and the Complete Works

Tessa de Loo, Netherlands
18. The Twins

Guy de Maupassant, France
19. Pierre and Jean
20. Bel-Ami

Garci RodrĂ­guez de Montalvo, Spain
21. Amadis of Gaul

Eça de Queirós, Portugal
22. The Crime of Father Amaro

Fernando de Rojas, Spain
23. La Celestina

Marquis de Sade, France
24. The 120 Days of Sodom
25. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, France
26. The Little Prince

Daniel Defoe, England
27. Moll Flanders
28. Robinson Crusoe, 2013 botm
29. Roxana

Miguel Delibes
30. The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition

Don Delillo, US
31. Falling Man, 2015 botm
32, The Body Artist
33. Mao II
34. Libra
35. White Noise, 2010 botm
36. The Names
37. Ratner's Star

Thomas Deloney UK
38. Thomas Of Reading

Kiran Desai, India
39. The Inheritance of Loss, 2017 botm

Anita Desai, India
40. Clear Light Of Day

G.V. Desani, Kenya
41. All About H. Hatterr

Shashi Deshpande, India
42. Small remedies

Junot DĂ­az, DR/US
43. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, 2015 botm

Bernal DĂ­az del Castillo, Spain
44. The Conquest of New Spain

Philip K. Dick - US
45. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 2015 botm

That is the list for December choices. which would you like to read?


You can start thinking about which books you'd like to read for quarterlies in 2024. I will be starting that process soon.

Oh, excited for quarterly voting....as for botm I just have "small remedies" unread so going for that one. curious t9 see what other people are feeling.

This is such a varied list! I have read 17. I have 'Thomas of Reading' on TBR and I'm curious about that one because of the antiquated language, but I'm open to others.

I have read 17 and The Names is the only one I have on my shelf

I have read 12 on the December list and not any of the books already mentioned: The Names, Thomas of Reading or Small Remedies. So could go with any of those. I would like to read Clear Light of Day

I’ve read 21 of the excluded and options.
The ones I have available to me
A Home at the End of the World
Fifth Business
Eugenie Grandet
On Love
The Crime of Father Amaro
Roxana
Clear Light of Day
The Conquests of New Spain.
The Names
Mao II

The ones I am most interested in are
The Names
Mao II
The Home at the End of the World
Roxana

I’ve read 15 of these. I’d like to read Clear Light of Day so will probably vote for that.

I have not read most of the books other people have mentioned so I think I may not even vote this month and just see what happens.

I've read 25 so far. On my TBR shelf, there are 3:

Maldoror (de Lautréamont)
Home at the End of the World (Cunningham)
End of the Story (Davis)

Not terribly excited about either.

Our winners for our last books of December are....
A Home at the End of the World - Cunningham
Amadis of Gaul - Garci RodrĂ­guez de Montalvo

Leni was our tie breaker. Thank you Leni.

I think I will try and read A Home at the End of the World.

Amadis is in the Open Library, and I've just ordered a cheap copy of A Home at the End of the World from eBay, so I plan to read them both.

Having already read A Home, I will look for Amadis of Gaul but will need some help. It looks like it could be 336 pages or 663 pages, one volume or four, 50 US dollars or free�. Not sure what exactly is on the 1001 list.

I can’t see myself reading either of these - I don’t own them and neither interests me enough to look for or buy them, so I think I’ll use December to catch up on ones I didn’t get to earlier in the year.

At last! Cunningham’s book is on Audible, so I can use up a credit!

Oh I flubbed up and missed that I haven't read Amadis of Gaul either: thanks randomiser! I have the audiobook and will be listening to it. I loved "Home at the End of the World" and hope others enjoy!

Pip wrote: "At last! Cunningham’s book is on Sudible, so I can use up a credit!"

Ah shoot, I wish I had checked, I would have done that instead of ordering the physical book. I have a few credits!

Amanda, where did you get an audiobook of Amadis of Gaul?

Glad to be of service as tie breaker. I feel I better make sure to actually read the book now. lol
Should be fine. I can get it on audio through the library, read by, amongst others Colin Farrell. And I really loved The Hours, so I'm fairly excited to read another Michael Cunningham.

I will be reading Home at the End of the World this month as it is my TBR takedown book so my December will be one of catching up on other books. I haven’t found a reasonable copy of Amadis of Gaul. I also would like to know where Amanda found an audible copy.

I found it on Librovox and utube has the whole book.

Yep: I'm doing the librivox version as well. Heads up to folks though: the first goodreads link for the book says it is ~340 pgs (which seems abridged) and the full unabridged audiobook is ~29 hours long.

The audiobook for Home at the End of the World that Leni mentioned is incredible, Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts (the main narrators) are also play the two main characters in the movie version (which I also recommend if you end up enjoying the book).

Amanda wrote: "Yep: I'm doing the librivox version as well. Heads up to folks though: the first goodreads link for the book says it is ~340 pgs (which seems abridged) and the full unabridged audiobook is ~29 hour..."

I was thinking that Amadis of Gaul probably should have been a quarterly read but it is unclear whether all volumes or just first volume is included.

That makes a lot of sense: I'm happy to listen to the whole thing regardless, but yeah, there are a few books on the list where it isn't clear whether the first volume, or a whole expanded volumes (with the same title) are what is on the list.

And therefore I am going to leave it to the discretion of the reader to decide how to interpret.

Pamela wrote: "I can’t see myself reading either of these - I don’t own them and neither interests me enough to look for or buy them, so I think I’ll use December to catch up on ones I didn’t get to earlier ..."

Agree- I did like Cunningham's The Hours, but am less interested in A Home... (which was dropped from the list). Maybe I will read it in a few years but have a lot of others higher on my list, and am trying to read not so many by American and English men.

I was thinking I would try to fit in the audio of A Home at the End of the World, but now that I'm reading Don Quixote and he mentions Amadis of Gaul in almost every chapter, I feel like I should try for that one. Not sure I can fit in that many more audio hours though.