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The authors for November are Szczypiorski - Valera.

Books over 600 pages are not included and books that have been past botm in 2022 are also not included.

Voting starts today and ends on the 24th when the winners will be announced.

HOW TO VOTE:
Please send your choices by private message to either myself or the Shelf Personality. Everyone gets one free vote. if you have participation points you can have up to 4 additional votes. You can use them all on one choice or you can make 5 different choices.

Only books that have not been previous botm in past 10 years will be added to the randomizer. Each book you choose will be fed into the randomizer for an opportunity to be chosen by the randomizer. * (excluded from randomizer)

Andrzej Szczypiorski - Poland
1. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, botm 2014

Antonio Tabucchi -Italy
2. Pereira Declares: A Testimony

Rabindranath Tagore - India
3. The Home and the World

Costas Taktsis - Greece
4. The Third Wedding

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - Japan
5. Some Prefer Nettles

Donna Tartt - US
6. The Secret History - botm 2020

Elizabeth Taylor - UK (omitted, botm 2022)

Shashi Tharoor - India
7. The Great Indian Novel - 2020

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Kenya
8. Petals of Blood
9. Matigari
10. The River Between

Hunter S. Thompson - US
11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Jim Thompson - US
12. The Killer Inside Me - botm 2010

Henry David Thoreau - US
13. Walden

Newton Thornburg - US
14. Cutter and Bone

James Thurber - US
15. The Wonderful O - 2018 botm
16. The 13 Clocks

Uwe Timm - Germany
17. The Invention of Curried Sausage - 2012 botm

Felix Timmermans - Belgium
18. Pallieter

Colm Tóibín - Ireland
19. The Master - 2020 botm
20. The Heather Blazing

J.R.R. Tolkien - UK
21. The Hobbit

Leo Tolstoy - Russia
22. The Kreutzer Sonata
23. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Sicily/Italy
24. The Leopard

Jean Toomer - US
25. Cane

Jáchym Topol - Czech
26. City Sister Silver

Michel Tournier - France
27. The Ogre

Sylvia Townsend Warner - UK
28. After the Death of Don Juan
29. Summer Will Show - 2020 botm

Rose Tremain - UK
30. The Colour, 2014 botm, 2016 botm

Robert Tressell - Ireland
31. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

William Trevor - Ireland
32. The Story of Lucy Gault
33. Felicia's Journey

Anthony Trollope - UK
34. Castle Richmond

Leonid Tsypkin - Belarus
35. Summer in Baden-Baden

Göran Tunström - Sweden
36. The Christmas Oratorio

Ivan Turgenev - Russia
37. Virgin soil
38. Torrents of Spring
39. Fathers and Sons - botm 2018
40. King Lear of the Steppes
41. On the Eve

Mark Twain- US
42. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 2010, 2014, 2016

Dubravka Ugrešić - Croatia
43. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

John Updike - US
44. Rabbit, Run, botm 2012, 2016
45. Rabbit Redux
46. Rabbit Is Rich

Juan Valera - Spain
47. Pepita Jiménez

That's the list. Please if you could get your votes in early it would help and after Thursday, please don't send to the Shelf Personality as I will not be able to access it on the road.

So let us know what you've read and what you would like to read. Happy Reading.

Very easy pick for me this time: City Sister Silver is the only one I haven't read, so going to vote early and toss my 5 votes there.

Safe travels Kristel.

This is an average lot for me, 24 being read. I only have one on my TBR shelves:

The Christmas Oratorio (Tunström)

I'll wait and see where the interest is directed.

The Ogre sounds fascinating but is it available in English?

I'm thinking about spliting my votes between a few to get them into the randomizer: Cane, The Story of Lucy Gault, The Killer Inside Me.

I THINK I have read 20. Don’t have any others on my shelf. I am travelling with little internet access so won’t vote unless I get back to civilisation in time!

I have only read 8 of these, so there’s a good chance one I haven’t read will come up. So this month I think I will just pick one I own for my free vote - maybe Petals of Blood.

I have read 19 of these. I would live to read another Turgenev - either King Lear or On the Eve. However, I have not read City Sister Silver, Christmas Oratorio, the Killer Inside Me or the Story of Lucy Gault. I have read Petals of Blood. I will probably vote for Turgenev for the Randomizer

I have read 21 of these.
The ones I have access to and am willing to put my votes toward are Cane - Toomer
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Tressell
Torrents of Spring - Tugennev
The Story of Lucy Gault - Trevor
Felicia's Journey - Trevor
The Home and the World - Tagore
Heather Blazing - Toibin

If no one wants to go with any of these, I will feed the randomizer.

Ah, I see a few people have mentioned The Story of Lucy Gault and I have a copy of that too, so I think I’ll go for that one.

I can get behind Lucy Gault.

I leave on my little trip tomorrow morning. Two people have voted. I will try my best to keep up with everything while on the road but can't promise it will be seamless. I will only taking my I pad with me and it isn't as easy to work on but I think I have it set up. I'll be back home late on the 28th.

The winners are
Popular vote: The Story of Lucy Gault by 1 vote
Randomized: Hobbit picked by Nike.

What will you be reading?
I bet Amanda will be opting for a buddy read.

I will be reading The Story of Lucy Gault as I’ve read The Hobbit many times.

Read both and also read City Sister Silver, so no possible buddy read for me. I'll probably focus on randomized reads, provided I am done with Joseph (still 300 pages to go) and the last quarterly.

Patrick, maybe someone would be interested in Christmas Oratoria

I’ll read Lucy Gault but will probably give The Hobbit a miss. I really want to finish the Annual Read so will give it a miss

Lol yes I will opt for the buddy read if anyone is interested. Anyone have interest/time to fit in city sister silver?

I didnt realize there was lobbying :) Next time!

I have read neither so will be aiming to read both. I will also sign up for City Sister or Christmas Oratorio buddy read. That means I need to catch up with the annual read in October.

Cool, I will do City Sister Silver for the buddy read then.

I'll host a buddy read for the Christmas Oratorio then. At my current reading speed, I'll probably need 10-12 days at the beginning of the month before I can post questions; it is a chunky book (my French edition runs at 500 pages).

I just ordered a copy of The Christmas Oratorio, so I will aim to join in with that buddy read. I've read the others.

Hope this is okay (mostly for Gail since I don't know if anyone else is interested lol): but I'd like to back out of hosting the buddy read for city sister silver.

I've been doing okay overall, but have only been living independently again for less than 2 months now after surviving sepsis in May (do NOT recommend as an experience lol), and have been taking a break from keeping up with reviews so I don't feel overwhelmed. Thought I'd be good for November, but think a longer break with be good idea.

Also Openlibrary has been down for weeks (booooo), and that's where I get most of my remaining list books since I can't physically go to libraries easily and do not have extra funds to buy ebooks right now. Hopefully it will go back up, but likely will be more limited in list books until staying with my family in December (I ran out of 1001 audiobooks earlier this year so have been listening to booker and giller prize nominees instead this month :) )

Amanda wrote: "Hope this is okay (mostly for Gail since I don't know if anyone else is interested lol): but I'd like to back out of hosting the buddy read for city sister silver.

I've been doing okay overall, b..."

Take care of your health Amanda. We all will understand.

Kristel wrote: "The winners are
Popular vote: The Story of Lucy Gault by 1 vote
Randomized: Hobbit picked by Nike.

What will you be reading?
I bet Amanda will be opting for a buddy read."

Wow! Since I don't get any mails from ŷ������ any longer I haven't noticed this until now! It's a month ago.

Amanda, I hope you feel better. It is so important to take care of your health. I hope we can read City Sister Silver together some other time.

Thanks for the kind responses everyone, for some reason I didn't get a notification for this thread.

And yes, I'd love to do Sister City Silver together another time too <3