June 2022 Nominations

[Darren]

Categories open for nomination for June 2022 are:

Comedy and War & Travel

to help with choosing nominations, I have updated the threads containing the full list of books in each of these categories, showing which books have already been read - hopefully these are useful:

Comedy List

War & Travel List

so let's have those suggestions...

[Dave]

I nominate Pnin for comedy and From Here to Eternity for War and Travel.

Do I need to go to the lists and formally nominate them?
Thanks Darren.

[Darren]

thanks Dave - the List threads are locked to comments, so nominating on this thread is the way to do it!

[Penelope]

War and Travel - Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Comedy List - Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

[Megan]

Comedy: The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark.

War & Travel: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy.

[Marilyn]

Comedy: Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells

War & Travel: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

[Pamela]

Comedy: Cheese by Willem Elsschot

War & Travel: An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

[Kimberly]

Comedy: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

War & Travel: Justine by Lawrence Durrell

[Darren]

Thanks everybody! :o)
6 in each category is probably enough,
so unless somebody really doesn't fancy any of the above in either category and wants to make a last-minute nomination,
I will finalise the Polls tomorrow...

[Darren]

so we have:

Comedy:
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957) 184 pages
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1978) 272 pages
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (1970) 103 pages
Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells (1909) 414 pages
Cheese by Willem Elsschot (1933) 160 pages
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) 464 pages

War & Travel:
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1951) 816 pages
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1979) 562 pages
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (1905) 182 pages
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940) 216 pages
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd (1982) 383 pages
Justine by Lawrence Durrell (1957) 253 pages

Polls are up!
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

[Darren]

oh, and I usually refrain from plugging any particular nomination, but
Willem Elsschot's "Cheese" is one of my all-time faves, and a prime example of a book I highly doubt I'd've come across without the G1000 list
although it is a bit tricky/expensive to get hold of, it is so worth it!