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The poll is up for voting on the December 2023 Moderator Pick. Vote now through 10/29.
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The three nominations are:

Toad by Katherine Dunn
About a self-loathing hermit, the unpublished novel the author left behind when she died in 2016 finally made its way to print last year. The NY Times said "if Geek Love was a misfit anthem, Toad is a misfit ballad � a quieter and more modest offering." Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of the events that sparked Sally's self-imposed exile from society.

Frontier by Can Xue
Can Xue (the pen name for Deng Xiaohua) is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic whose name was tossed around earlier this year as a potential Nobel Prize winner. This novel of hers explores life in this city (or in the frontier) through "... the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, ... attempting to unify the grand opposites of life--barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures."

The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
I'm not sure this one needs anything other than its GR book summary: "Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered?"

Frontier by Can Xue has won the poll. Thanks to all those who voted. Should make for an interesting discussion!

Discussion will start December 1st.