Reading 1001 discussion

The authors for February: Huysman - Kennedy

Books over 600 pages are not included and books that have been past botm in 2022 are also not included. Voting for February botm starts today and ends on the 24th when the winners will be announced. Only books that have not been previous botm in past 10 years (2015 +) 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.

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. This will be the last time you can use your 2024 participation points.

Joris-Karl Huysmans - France
1. Là-Bas (Down There). 1891, 304 pages
2. Against the Grain by Joris K. Huysmans, 1884, 242 pages

M.J. Hyland - UK
3. Carry Me Down, 2006, 352 pages, botm 2013.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante - Cuba
4. Three Trapped Tigers, 1966, 487 pages

Christopher Isherwood - UK
5. Goodbye to Berlin, 1939, 208 pages
6. The Last of Mr. Norris, 1935, 230 pages

Kazuo Ishiguro - UK/Japanese
7. A Pale View of Hills, 1982, 183 pages, botm 2013
8. An Artist of the Floating World, 1986, 206 pages
9. The Unconsoled, 1995, 535 pages
10. Never Let Me Go, 2005, 288 pages, botm 2009
11. The Remains of the Day, 1989, 258 pages, botm 2017*

Henry James - US
12. The Turn of the Screw, 1898, 121 pages, botm 2009
13. The Wings of the Dove, 1902, 450 pages
14. The Ambassadors, 1903, 528 pages
15. The Golden Bowl, 1904, 591 pages
16. What Maisie Knew , 1897, 275 pages

Storm Jameson - UK
17. A Day Off, 1933, 219 pages

Tove Jansson - Findland
18. The Summer Book, 1972, 172 pages, botm 2015*

Elfriede Jelinek - Germany
19. The Piano Teacher. 1983, 288 pages , botm 2011

Zhang Jie - China
20. Leaden Wings, 1981, 180 pages

Juan Ramón Jiménez - Spain
21. Platero and I, 1914, 218 pages

B.S. Johnson - England
22. House Mother Normal, 1971, 208 pages
23. Trawl, 1966, 208 pages
24. Albert Angelo, 1964, 160 pages

Samuel Johnson - England
25. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, 1759, 224 pages

David Jones - UK
26. In Parenthesis, 1937, 227 pages

Erica Jong - US
27. Fear of Flying, 1973. 227 pages

James Joyce - Ireland
28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917, 329 pages

Ernst Junger - Germany
29. Storm of Steel:, 1929, 289 pages
30. The Glass Bees, 1957, 209 pages

Ismail Kadare - Albania
31. The Successor, 2003
32. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, 2000
33. Broken April, 1978

Franz Kafka - Czech Republic
34. The Castle, 1926, 2015 botm*
35. Amerika, 1927, 2017 botm*
36. The Trial, 1825m 2916 botm*

Excluded: A Thousand Cranes, botm 2023

Nikos Kazantzakis - Greece
37. The Last Temptation of Christ, 1960
38. Zorba the Greek, 1946, 2021 botm*

Daniel Kehlmann - Germany
38. Measuring The World, 2005, botm 2015*
39. Tyll, 2017

James Kelman - Scotland
40. Kieron Smith, Boy, 2008
41. How Late It Was, How Late, botm 2021*
42. A Disaffection, 1989
43. The Busconductor Hines

Thomas Keneally - Australia
44. Schindler's Ark, botm 2011*

A.L. Kennedy - Scotland
45. Looking for the Possible Dance
46. Everything You Need

There's the list for February. What have you read? What would you like to read in February?

A strange month for me, this. I read 20 of these, but it looks like I read all of certain authors, but none of others. I have only one on my TBR shelves:

An Artist of the Floating World (Ishiguro)

Surprisingly, I have read none of the Kazantzakises, Kelmans and Kennedys listed here. I'll wait for what others might have to suggest.

I've read 24 and I also have read all of certain authors, eg Ishiguro, Henry James (thank goodness).

I have one on my shelf, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Kadare. I have put this on my takedown list so I would have to do some fast changes if it is picked for BoTM.

I'd be happy with a Kelman. I haven't read any of those.

i have read only 8, I have a different Isiguro on my tbr shelf (Never let me go), and also the Piano teacher - and I think I was thinking about house mother normal for one of the monthly word challenges?

I would be interested in Busconductor Hines (or How Late it was but that looks like it was on rotation pretty recently).

I have quite a few that I could read.
I am interested in Kadare's books; the Successor and Spring Flowers, Spring Frost because they are free in audible play for awhile. I also could do these;
Huysman, Against the Grain
Ishiguro, the only one left for me The Unconsoled
H. James, The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors, What Maise Knew
S. Johnson, Rasselas
Nikos, The Last Tempation of Christ.
Kehlmann, Measuring the Worlds

Because I have so many, I will see how I match up with others and if nothing else, I will feed the randomizer.

I think I've read 20 of these.

I’ve read 14 of these, including all the Ishiguro. So there are a lot I haven’t read but the only one I own is Measuring the World.

I also am interested in Spring Flowers, Spring Frost.

I have read 20 of these but none of the James, neither of the Kehlmann's, two of the Kelman's. I have read all of the Ishiguro. I would like to read any of these:

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Measuring the World
The Last Temptation of Christ
and any of the James except Turn of the Screw

This one's an awkward bit of the alphabet for me to dive back into voting with. I might own one or two of the books in this section that I have not read yet, but I'm not sure. I work as a volunteer at our library's used book store now, so I might find more between now and February, but based on what I can access now, I'd be interested in ...

Là-Bas (Down There). - Huysmans
Against the Grain - Huysmans
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Last Temptation of Christ - Kazantzakis
Measuring The World - Kehlmann

My strategy for February is SHORT books, as I'll be trying to build momentum on Genji and Idiot. So I'll get behind An Artist of the Floating World and Spring Flowers, Spring Frost.

Jane wrote: "My strategy for February is SHORT books, as I'll be trying to build momentum on Genji and Idiot. So I'll get behind An Artist of the Floating World and Spring Flowers, Spring Frost."

Good call, Jane! ;)

I've read fewer of these than my usual, 10.5 (am currently reading Joyce's Portrait of an Artist...).
I lean toward The Piano Teacher or The Last Temptation of Christ. Everything You Need would be good also, I could get from university library. I read one Henry James and didn't like his style.
I've read two of the Ishiguros (Never Let me Go [awesome] and Remains of the Day), would be up for another.

February winner of the popular vote is: Spring Flower, Spring Frost
The randomizer pick is: An Artist of the Floating World.

Nine books were nominated. Spring Flower, Spring Frost was a clear and decided Victor with An Artist of the Floating World the second and Measuring the World in third place. What will you be reading in February?

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!

Well, I'd better read Spring Flowers, Spring Frost since I voted for it!

I've read An Artist of the Floating World, and enjoyed it quite a lot.

I’ll read Spring Flowers, Spring Frost. I’ve read An Artist of the Floating World and I also enjoyed it, I may join the discussion anyway.

I also will read Spring Flowers, Spring Frost and I have also already read An Artist of the Floating World. I really enjoyed the book and look forward to other people's reactions.

Same! :)

I will be reading Spring Flowers, Spring Frost. I've read An artist of the Floating World.

I'll definitely read the Ishiguro (loved Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go). Hopefully will have time for the other, but we'll see.

I'll read Artist of the Floating World. I've previously read his Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
Artist of the Floating World was made into a movie in Japan in 2019- you can see a trailer for it on Youtube. If you have a Roku or a friend with one you can stream it on The Roku Channel for free (English subtitles).
I noticed that both the books this month are "core" 1001 books (in every edition) and both are fairly short as Jane mentioned.

I'm also reading Spring Flowers, Artist of the Floating World may be my favorite Ishiguro that I've read however!