Reading 1001 discussion

The authors for October are Rebecca West through Stephen Zweig.

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)

Rebecca West - UK
1. The Birds Fall Down
2. The Thinking Reed
3. Harriet Hume
4. The Return of the Soldier, botm 2020

Edith Wharton - US
5. The House of Mirth
6. Ethan Frome
7. Summer
8. The Glimpses of the Moon
9. The Bunner Sisters
10. The Age of Innocence, 2016 botm

Edmund White - US
11. The Beautiful Room Is Empty
12. A Boy’s Own Story

Patrick White - UK
13. Voss
14. The Tree of Man
15. The Living and the Dead

Oscar Wilde - Ireland
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray. botm, botm 2010

Henry Williamson - UK
17. Tarka the Otter

Angus Wilson - UK
18. No Laughing Matter

Edmund Wilson - US
19. I Thought of Daisy

Jeanette Winterson
20. The Passion, 2014 botm
21. Sexing the Cherry
22. Written on the Body
23. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 2016 botm

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - Poland
24, Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts

P.G. Wodehouse - UK
25. Thank You, Jeeves, 2014

Christa Wolf - Germany
26. Patterns of Childhood
27. The Quest for Christa T.

Thomas Wolfe - US
28. Look Homeward, Angel

Tom Wolfe - US
29. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, botm 2016

Jan Wolkers - Netherlands Back to Oegstgeest (Not Translated

Virginia Woolf - UK
30. The Voyage Out
31. To the Lighthouse, botm 2018
32. Mrs. Dalloway
33. Between the Acts
34. The Years
35. The Waves
36. Orlando
37. Jacob's Room
38. Night and Day

Richard Wright - US
39. Native Son

John Wyndham - UK
40. Chocky, 2014 botm
41. The Midwich Cuckoos
42. The Day of the Triffids, botm 2012

Zhang Xianliang - China
43. Half of Man Is Woman, 2012 botm

Banana Yoshimoto - Japan
44. Kitchen, 2018 botm

Marguerite Yourcenar - Belgium
45. Memoirs of Hadrian

Yevgeny Zamyatin
46. We, 2010, 2012, 2016 botm

Émile Zola - France
47. Germinal, 2020 botm
48. The Beast Within or La Bête humaine
49. Thérèse Raquin

Joost Zwagerman - Netherlands - Gimmick! Not translated

Arnold Zweig - Austria
50. The Case of Sergeant Grischa

Stephen Zweig - Austria
51. Chess Story



These are the options for October? What have you read? What would you like to read?

Haven't read No Laughing Matter or Sergeant Grischa so will be splitting votes in those 2 directions.

I have only read 13. I will vote for the one Rebecca West I haven’t read.

The Thinking Reed.

I think I've read 18, a little over a third.
The highest one in my to-read list is The Tree of Man by Patrick White (at # 79). We by Zamyatin is next (# 162).
I've been trying to prioritize reading books by list authors I haven't read before, or at least haven't read a listed book of theirs before, so would prefer no V Woolf, E Wharton or J Winterson.
Sergeant Grischa / The Case of Sergeant Grischa sounds good to me. Note that there are two authors named Zweig, apparently Stephen was Austrian and Arnold was German.

I’ve read 20 of these, Sergeant Grischa is one I own so I think I will happily chip in for that one.

Is there a reason Amok by Stephen Zweig is not on this list?

I have read 13 from this list. Not sure where I am going to throw my points yet.

Diane wrote: "Is there a reason Amok by Stephen Zweig is not on this list?

I have read 13 from this list. Not sure where I am going to throw my points yet."

Amok was botm in 2022 so wasn't eligible.

I have read 19 of these thanks largely to having read all but one Wharton and all but one Winterson. I have not read Sargent Grischa nor The Thinking Reed. I also am interested in reading Chess Story. I will probably vote for one of these.

I've read 25 of these. Several are hard for me to find. I have several Woolf still on my TBR. I am probably going to add The Waves to the randomizer. I will see what others are considering.

Not easily available for me is Sargent Grischa.

I'm torn between The Thinking Reed and Glimpses of the Moon, my final West and my final Wharton. :(

Jane wrote: "I'm torn between The Thinking Reed and Glimpses of the Moon, my final West and my final Wharton. :("

You can divide your votes between the two.

I've also read 25 of this section of the List. Only two on my TBR shelves, and neither are really convincing me:

House of Mirth (Wharton)
Voss (P. White)

Not yet decided on what I will do with my vote(s).

Kristel wrote: "I've read 25 of these. Several are hard for me to find...Not easily available for me is Sargent Grischa..."

It is an obscure one, has only 185 ratings on Goodreads. The university here has some copies. It was reprinted in 2002 by Overlook Press of Woodstock, N.Y.

Patrick wrote: "...Only two on my TBR shelves, and neither are really convincing me:
House of Mirth (Wharton)
Voss (P. White)..."

Voss is also a semi-obscure one though it is a core 1001 list book and is in the Guardian 100 list. Betterworld books has a few copies for 9 or $10. I haven't read it yet.
House of Mirth didn't do much for me but some people think it wonderful.

I didn’t enjoy Voss. Not keen on Shite, generally.

Pip wrote: "I didn’t enjoy Voss. Not keen on Shite, generally."

You mean White. But the Freudian slip says it all about your level of enjoyment from this author ;) He's the Australian all Australians like to hate.

I have just realised my error! Oops, I hope no one was offended. Gave me a giggle.

Pip wrote: "I have just realised my error! Oops, I hope no one was offended. Gave me a giggle."

I wasn't! I thought it was funny.

I just realized that Glimpses of the Moon is on my TBR list. If it ends up being a BOTM, how does that work if both get picked (e.g. BOTM in Sept and my TBR in Nov)?

For anyone considering sergeant Grischa but can't find it, there is a link here at open library:

https://archive.org/details/caseofser...

Today's the last day to get your votes in. Winners announced tomorrow.

Edith Wharton: House of Mirth

Karen, you need to send that as a PM to Kristel

Rosemary wrote: "Karen, you need to send that as a PM to Kristel"

PM = message

Karen wrote: "Edith Wharton: House of Mirth"
You must send it as a private message to me to have your vote count.

The winner by one of the popular vote was The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West and the randomizer chose The Case of Sergeant Grischa which was in second place. We had a lot of votes this month, thanks for participating. What will you read in October?

I hope to read both.

Gail wrote: "I hope to read both."

Me too!

Pamela wrote: "Gail wrote: "I hope to read both."

Me too!"

And me!

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

I've been reading The Case of Sergeant Grischa for 2 weeks but am just half way through. It's rather long both in number of pages and words per page. I was able to borrow a paper copy from the university library here.

George P. wrote: "I've been reading The Case of Sergeant Grischa for 2 weeks but am just half way through. It's rather long both in number of pages and words per page. I was able to borrow a paper copy from the univ..."
Those are boot encouraging words. Is it hard to read or easily engaged?