Vote September 2018 BOTM

[Kristel]

We will be voting for September BOTM, our authors are Miller to Nashe.

Books that will not be included as they were BOTM in 2016;
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
Love in A Cold Climate Mitford
The Bluest Eye Morrison
The Holder of the World Mukherjee

Voting:
All members will have 1 free vote. If you have enough participation points you may cast up to an additional 4 votes. Please before to check the google spreadsheet if you don't know if you have participation points.
The second book will be chosen by random selection from all eligible books from the August list .
Participation points will be available here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
I know that Bookworm has been struggling with the spreadsheet so I hope it is correct.

Please feel free to make comments about various books, try to persuade people to vote for your preferences or other comments pro or con. Have fun!

Here is the link to the survey monkey for voting. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTNM2RL

Excluded as >600 pages
The Sea of Fertility, 1965, 1450 pages
A Fine Balance
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Discovery of Heaven 750 pages
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami
1Q84 Murakami
A Man Without Qualities, Musil
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
The Water Margin

Henry Miller
1. Tropic of Cancer 1938, 350 pages
2. Tropic of Capricorn, 1938, 350 pages

Yukio Mishima,
3. The Sound of Waves by 1954, 200 pages.

Pankaj Mishra
4. The Romantics 2000, 250 pages

Rohinton Mistry
5. Family Matters, 2002, 450 pages

Nancy Mitford
6. The Pursuit of Love, 1945, 200 pages

Miyuki Miyabe
7. Crossfire 1998, 400 pages

Thomas Mofolo
8. Chaka 1925, 200 pages

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
9. Southern Seas, 1979, 200 pages

Alan Moore
10. Watchmen, 1986, 400 pages.

Laurie Moore
11. Anagrams, 1986, 250 pages
12. Like Life, 1990, 200 pages
13. A Gate at the Stairs, 2009, 300 pages

Alberto Moravia
14. The Time of Indifference, 1929, 320 pages
15. Disobedience, 1948, 150 pages
16. A Ghost At Noon, 1954, 250 pages

Karl Philipp Moritz
17. Anton Reiser, 1785, 400 pages

William Morris
18. News From Nowhere, Or, An Epoch Of Rest: Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance, 1891, 450 pages.

Toni Morrison
19. Sula, 1974, 150 pages
20. Song of Solomon, 1977, 350 pages
21. Beloved, 1997, 300 pages
22. Jazz, 1992, 250 pages

Es'kia Mphahlele
23. Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto, 1959, 200 pages

Multatuli
24. Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, 1860, 400 pages

Alice Munro
25. Lives of Girls and Women, 1971, 300 pages
26. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, 1978, 200 pages

Haruki Murakami
27. Sputnik Sweetheart, 1999, 200 pages
28. After the Quake, 1999, 200 pages
29. Kafka on the Shore, 2002, 450 pages

Ryū Murakami
30. Almost Transparent Blue, 1976, 150 pages.

Iris Murdoch
31. Under the Net, 1954, 250 pages
32.The Bell, 1958, 300 pages
33. A Severed Head, 1961, 200 pages
34. The Nice and the Good, 1968, 350 pages
35. The Black Prince, 1973, 400 pages
36. The Sea, the Sea, 1978, 500 pages

Gerald Murnane
37. Inland, 1989, 200 pages

Robert Musil
38. The Confusions of Young Törless, 1906, 200 pages

Vladimir Nabokov
39. Lolita, 1955, 350 pages
40. Pnin, 1957, 200 pages
41. Pale Fire, 1962, 300 pages
42. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969, 600 pages, most editions are less, so am including this here

V.S. Naipaul
43. In a Free State, 1971, 250 pages
44. A Bend in the River, 1979, 300 pages
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections, 1987, 350 pages.

R.K. Narayan
45. The Guide, 1958, 200 pages

Thomas Nashe
46. The Unfortunate Traveller; Or, the Life of Jack Wilton

[Anita]

I'd be happy with so many of these that I don't feel motivated to vote, lol.

In a Free State, any Nabokov, any Munro, Family Matters, Watchmen, any Morrison, and I still haven't tried a Murakami . . .I'd be delighted with . . .so yeah, I'll let others decide!

[Kristel]

I've read 14 of these. I am most interested in
After the Quake
A Gate at the Stairs
A Ghost At Noon
Sula
Under the Net
Inland
Pnin

[Diane]

I would get behind any Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Murakami and even Iris Murdoch. I loved the Black Prince.

[Diane]

Kristel wrote: "I've read 14 of these. I am most interested in
After the Quake
A Gate at the Stairs
A Ghost At Noon
Sula
Under the Net
Inland
Pnin"

I could get behind After the Quake and Sula.

[Kelly_Hunsaker_reads]

I will probably vote for Sula. I have not read it and several of you have mentioned it.

[Diane]

I've read 25 of these. I am most interested in:

Sputnik Sweetheart
The Guide
Almost Transparent Blue
A Severed Head
The Pursuit of Love

[Tracy]

I’ve read 29. I’d love to read Inland, but I just checked- it’s out of print and way out of my price range on Amazon.

I haven’t read any Moravia or Murdoch yet. Hmm...

[Kristel]

Tracy wrote: "I’ve read 29. I’d love to read Inland, but I just checked- it’s out of print and way out of my price range on Amazon.

I haven’t read any Moravia or Murdoch yet. Hmm..." I picked up Inland at Abe Books for reasonable and I really like Murdoch but some are better than others.

[Liz M]

I've read 32 of the books. I've read too much Murakami & Murdoch, so I am interested in Max Havelaar or Ada, or Ardor.

[Diane]

Liz M wrote: "I've read 32 of the books. I've read too much Murakami & Murdoch, so I am interested in Max Havelaar or Ada, or Ardor."

Oh, wow. You don't have much left to choose from.

[[deleted user]]

Like Anita I'm happy with reading most of these - there are a lot of authors this month that I've not read yet and I'd like to do so. So I'll let you other lovely people who've read more from the list decide :o)

[Pip]

None from my TBR list. I have read 14, too. No time to check libraries while travelling, so I won't vote either.

[Gail]

I have read all the Toni Morrison but would love to read Kafka on the Shore or After the Quake. I would also love to read The Beggar Maid as I read Munro's Lives of Girls and Women for the first time this year.

[Amanda]

Since it's on the list, I've always wanted to know: Do we read Watchmen the graphic novel or as a non-graphic novel?

[Chinook]

Dual sounds interesting. I’ve read few of these so far though, so I’m probably up for almost anything.

[Tatjana]

I voted for Family Matters because I love Rohinton Mistri. Hopefully somebody will join.

[Kristel]

Amanda wrote: "Since it's on the list, I've always wanted to know: Do we read Watchmen the graphic novel or as a non-graphic novel?"
As a graphic novel. It is included on the list because its contribution to the development of the novel because it is a graphic novel.

[Diane]

Voted. I threw my points at Sula and After the Quake.

[Diane]

I voted for Sputnik Sweetheart since I read most of the other books suggested by others.

[Paula]

Sula and In pursuit of love.
I have only read 5 from this month's list, but I have read other books by some of the authors so it feels like I should have read more than that.

[Jen]

I will be posting the results Saturday evening. So keep the votes coming

[Jen]

I've read all the Murakamis and Morrisons on the list. And most of the others mentioned in the comments except for Murdoch (only read 1). Hmm, what to do...

[Amanda]

Kristel wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Since it's on the list, I've always wanted to know: Do we read Watchmen the graphic novel or as a non-graphic novel?"
As a graphic novel. It is included on the list because its contr..."

Thank you!

[Book]

I am still struggling with the spreadsheet so it is not correct here is the correct list as of last Friday. This is the points available to spend not total points :)

Name Available Points
Amie 8
Anita 34
Ann 9
Becky 17
BookWorm 62
Cafe Mom 92
Catriona 9
Chili 53
Chinook 49
Claire 6
Daisey 60
Dan 22
Dianne 21
Dree 73
Gail 99
George 29
Hilde 44
Jamie B 69
Jenni 93
JenP 32
Karen 16
Kelly 143
Kristel 86
Leni 28
Liz M 45
Lynn 30
Mary Ann 12
Melissa 73
Paula S 27
Pip 119
Shuva 10
Suelizbeth 17
Sushicat 21
The Other Diane 166
The Other Jen 44
Tracy 49
Tricia 6

[George P.]

I've only read seven of these, so lots of good choices for me. Near the top of my TBR list are Pale Fire and Family Matters. So which has a better shot? No one has mentioned Pale Fire (which has a 4.20 avg goodreads rating and was a National Book Award finalist) in the comments [BTW the audiobook is available on Youtube}.
Family Matters is one of the books in my "Randomized Challenge" for this group, it has an excellent 4.00 avg rating and others have mentioned it, so I'm going to use some points on it.

[George P.]

Tatjana wrote: "I voted for Family Matters because I love Rohinton Mistri. Hopefully somebody will join."

I'm with you for this one.

[Claire]

George wrote: "I've only read seven of these, so lots of good choices for me. Near the top of my TBR list are Pale Fire and Family Matters. So which has a better shot? No one has mentioned Pale Fire (which has a ..."

I’d love to read Pale Fire

[Jen]

I will post the results at 7pm ET today

[Tatjana]

Great, thanks George ;)

[Jen]

George wrote: "Tatjana wrote: "I voted for Family Matters because I love Rohinton Mistri. Hopefully somebody will join."

I'm with you for this one."

George - you used 12 points to vote. Each participant is only allowed to use up to 5 points maximum for voting each month. Can you send me a private message with the two books you voted for and the number of points (up to 5 points total) that you wish to use. Otherwise, I will count only the first book you voted for. Thanks

[Jen]

George wrote: "Tatjana wrote: "I voted for Family Matters because I love Rohinton Mistri. Hopefully somebody will join."

I'm with you for this one."

Never mind. I just allocated all your 5 points to the first book (given the book that is crushing the competition, it doesn't really matter how you allocated the points. However, for future voting, each month every member gets to use up to 5 points for voting. The first is a free vote that way everyone gets to vote. Let me know if you have questions.

[Jen]

Voting is closed

[Jen]

Book wrote: "I am still struggling with the spreadsheet so it is not correct here is the correct list as of last Friday. This is the points available to spend not total points :)

Name Available Points
Amie 8
..."

I'll send you the updated voting spreadsheet later tonight.