Reading 1001 discussion

Authors for September are Sand to Slauerhoff.

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.

Randomizer choices: Are taken from each person's votes. 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.

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil) - France
1. The Devil's Pool

Cora Sandel - Norway
2. Alberta and Jacob

José Saramago - Portugal
3. Baltasar and Blimunda
4. The Double
5. Cain by José Saramago

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - Argentina
6. Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism

Jean-Paul Sartre - France
7. Nausea

George Saunders - US
8. Pastoralia - 2018 botm

Dorothy L. Sayers - UK
9. Murder Must Advertise, 2012, 2016
10. The Nine Tailors, 2016

Bernhard Schlink - German
11. The Reader

Arthur Schnitzler - Austrian
12, None but the Brave Lieutenant Gustl

Daniel Paul Schreber - Germany
13. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

Bruno Schulz - Poland, Jewish, now Ukraine
14. The Street of Crocodiles or The Cinnamon Shops

Leonardo Sciascia - Sicily
15. To Each His Own

Sir Walter Scott - Scotland
16. Rob Roy
17. Ivanhoe, 2012 botm
18. The Monastery

W.G. Sebald - Germany
19. Austerlitz, 2020 botm
20. The Emigrants
21, Vertigo

Anna Seghers - Germany
22. Transit

Hubert Selby Jr. - US
23. Requiem for a Dream, botm 2018

Will Self - UK
24. Great Apes
25. How the Dead Live

Meša Selimović - Bosnia Herzgovina
26. Death and the Dervish

Sam Selvon - Trinidad and Tobago
27. The Lonely Londoners

Ousmane Sembène - Sengalese
28. God's Bits of Wood

Victor Serge - Belgium
29. The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Shahan Shahnur - Turkey
30. Retreat without song

Akhil Sharma - India
31. An Obedient Father

Lao She - China
32. Rickshaw Boy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - England
33. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, 2012, 2010 botm

Carol Shields - USA/Canada
34. The Stone Diaries 2014 botm
35. Unless 2018 botm

Nevil Shute - UK
36. A Town Like Alice - 2014 botm

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Poland
37. Quo Vadis 2012 botm

Iain Sinclair - Wales
38. London Orbital
39. Dining on Stones
40. Downriver

May Sinclair - UK
41. Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Upton Sinclair - US
42. The Jungle

Isaac Bashevis Singer - Poland, Jewish American author
43. The Magician of Lublin
44. The Manor

Indra Sinha - India
45. Animal's People - 2014 botm

Josef Škvorecký - Czech
46. The Engineer of Human Souls

J. Slauerhoff - Netherlands
47. The Forbidden Realm ( not sure how accessable this one is)

That's the list for September. How many have you read and what would you like to read in September?

I have only read 17 this time. I liked Austerlitz so will probably vote for another of Sebald’s.

I have read 15. The only ones I own are Death and the Dervish and Baltasar and Blimunda, but there are quite a few that I would like to read so I will wait to see what others suggest.

I’ve read 13 of these. There are a few I own and would be interested in - Rob Roy, London Orbital, An Obedient Father, The Jungle and The Emigrants.

I have The Emigrants and Great Apes. I'd be happy to read one of those.

I've only read 15. I knew this was a list that I had not read many when I was posting. I also find that some of these are hard to easily acquire.
I am interested in
London Orbital
The Devil's Pool
The Magician of Lublin

I'm pleased that I have a nice pile to choose from this time: all previously unmentioned so it looks like there will be a robust consideration list on the thread this time. Mine are:

-the Manor
-Dining on Stones
-Downriver
-the engineer of human souls
-comrade tulayev
-memoirs of the nervous illness

I'll decide to either back one or toss things at the randomizer based on what other people are feeling.

I've read my usual 1/3 of these (16). Looks as if most of us so far are about the same.
8 or 9 of these are in my to-read list, but only the two Singers (one or other of the two) and Street of Crocodiles in the next 100 on my list.
Several of the other books that have been spoken in favor of are further down my list: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Jungle or Baltasar would all be welcome for me.
At this point I may vote for one or both of the Singer novels and probably one vote on Street of Crocodiles for the randomizer.
Gail- I liked Death and the Dervish but not everyone would I think.
The Schnitzler book, no. 12 on the list- None But the Brave- has the alternate title Lieutenant Gustl- it's not separate books. It's about an 85 page novella.

I just read Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History. This along with The Street of Crocodiles, and one of the Singers would make a great companion read. I will be using some of my vote for the The Magician of Lublin.

I have read 12 of these. I am going to stay on the sidelines for this list.

I will vote for Baltasar and Blimunda, as I have the book on my shelf.

I've read a handful of these and I'm open to a lot of them, but I'll probably throw in a bunch of titles for the randomizer: The Reader, Transit, The Double, Cain, To Each His Own, all strike me as interesting.

I'm late to the party, I'm always busy as hell when the Olympics approach. Only read 18 of them, but Ihave 5 to choose from on my TBR shelf:

- The Reader (Schlink)
- Rob Roy (Scott)
- How the Dead Live (Self)
- Death and the Darvish (Selimovic)
- Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)

I'm leaning towards The Reader at the moment, so might throw full support for that.

Announcing the winners.
Popular Vote: The Reader 9 votes
Randomizer: The Manor, submitted by two people

What will you be reading in September?

I’ll be reading The Manor, looks interesting. I’ve read The Reader.

I can’t find The Manor anywhere except Kindle and at NZD112 I’m not tempted to buy it. If anyone can find a source I would be pleased. I’ve read The Reader.

I have read The Manor so I will only be reading The Reader, which might allow me to catch up on my Random Challenge and Joseph.

I was one of the people who tossed in a vote for "The Manor" so I'm thrilled it got chosen by the randomizer, as I've already read "The Reader".

The Manor is here at Openlibrary for anyone else who is interested in reading: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13450...

Well, thanks for the link, which works! When I searched his other books came up but not this one!

Amanda wrote: "I was one of the people who tossed in a vote for "The Manor" so I'm thrilled it got chosen by the randomizer, as I've already read "The Reader"..."

I was the other member who put a vote on The Manor. I've also read The Reader a few years ago (it's good). So I'll be reading The Manor- copies are scare but it seems I can get it at the city library or university library here. My notes also say that betterworld books has at least one copy for $6. It's set in Poland so maybe a good follow-up for Sophie's Choice which I've been reading.
So looks like we have at least four readers for the randomizer book, pretty good.
If I like Manor I will probably read Singer's Magician of Lublin in not-too-distant future as well.

I'll be reading The Manor, too. I can get it from the library.

I will be travelling the whole of September, but I will try to get to The Manor when can.

Pip wrote: "I will be travelling the whole of September, but I will try to get to The Manor when can."
Enjoy your travels Pip. I started The Manor a couple days ago.