Voting for August 2022 BOTM - CLOSED

[Kristel]

Authors for August are from Schlink to Sommerville Ross. Voting will be open today, April 15 through April 23rd. Winners will be announced on the 24th.

Please review the list of authors and the books that are eligible in this post. Comment, give your opinions, and most important, don't forget to vote. Everyone gets one free vote but if you want more opportunity you can use participation points. See the thread on participation points on how to earn them and how to use them.

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Excluded books this month
The First Circle >600 pgs
A Suitable Boy >600 pgs
Tale of Genji >600 pgs
Islands> 600 pgs
Austerlitz botm 2020
White Teeth, 2020 botm

Bernhard Schlink, German
1. The Reader, 1995, 216 pages

Arthur Schnitzler Austria
2. None But The Brave, Lieutenant Gustl,

Daniel Paul Schreber Germany
3. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, 1903, 455 pages

Bruno Schulz Ukraine (Poland)
4. The Street of Crocodiles, 1933, 160 pages

Leonardo Sciascia, Sicily
5. To Each His Own, 1966, 158 pgs

Walter Scott
6. Rob Roy, 1817, 501 pages
7. Ivanhoe 1819, 496 pages botm 2012
8. The Monastery 1820, 370 pages

W.G. Sebald, Germany
9. The Emigrants, 1992, 237 pages
10. The Rings of Saturn, 1995, 296 pages
11. Vertigo, 1990, 263 pages

Anna Seghers, Germany
12. Transit, 1942, 272 pages

Hubert Selby Jr., USA
13. Requiem for a Dream, 1978, 279, botm 2018

Will Self, UK
14. How the Dead Live, 2000, 404 pages
15. Great Apes, 1997, 404 pages

Meša Selimović, Bosnia and Herzegovina
16. Death and the Dervish, 1966, 473 pages, 2018 botm

Sam Selvon, Trinidad Tobago
17. The Lonely Londoners, 1956, 142 pgs

Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese
18. God's Bits of Wood, 1960, 248 pgs

Victor Serge, Belgium
19. The Case of Comrade Tulayev, 1948, 400 pages

Shahan Shahnour, Turkey
20. Retreat Without Song, 1929, 400 pages

Akhil Sharma, India
21. An Obedient Father, 2000, 288 pages

Lao She, China
22. Rickshaw Boy, 1936, 300 pages

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, England
23. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, 1818, 260 pages, botm 2010, 2012

Carol Shields, USA born/Canadian
24. The Stone Diaries, 1993, 361 pgs, 2014
25. Unless, 2002, 320 pgs, 2018

Nevil Shute, UK
26. A Town Like Alice, 1950, 359 pgs

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
27. Quo Vadis, 1896, 589 pgs

Alan Sillitoe, UK
28. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1958, 192 pgs

Iain Sinclair, UK, Cardiff Wales
29. Dining on Stones, 2004, 464 pgs
30. London Orbital, 2002, 577 pgs
31. Downriver, 1991, 544 pgs

May Sinclair, UK
32. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, 1922, 184 pgs

Upton Sinclair, USA
33. The Jungle, 1905, 335

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland (Jewish) Nobel Prize 1978
34. The Magician of Lublin, 208 pgs, 1959
35. The Manor, 1967, 442 pages

Indra Sinha, India
36. Animal's People, 2007, 374 pgs

Josef Škvorecký,Czech Republic
37. The Engineer of Human Souls, 1977, 592 pgs

J. Slauerhoff. Netherlands
38. The Forbidden Kingdom, 1932, 301 pages

Ali Smith, Scotland
39. There but for the, 2012, 357 pgs, 2016 botm
40. The Accidental, 2005, 306 pgs,
41. Winter, 2017, 322 pgs

Zadie Smith, UK
42. On Beauty2005, 445 pgs

Tobias Smollett, Scotland
43. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 1771, 414 pgs
44. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, 1751, 588 pgs
45. The Adventures of Roderick Random, 1748, 476 pgs

Antun Šoljan,
47. The Port, 1974, unknown whether you can find this book as a translation or how many pages.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian, Nobel Prize
48. Cancer Ward, 576 pgs 1976, 576 pgs
49. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 200 pgs 1962

Edith Œnone Somerville UK
50. The Real Charlotte, 415 pgs, 1894
51. Some Experiences Of An Irish R. M.; And, Further Experiences Of An Irish R. M, 1899, 288 pgs

The list is completed. How many have you read, what would you like to read this August?

[Pip]

I have only read 14 of these, so a lot to choose from, but I do fancy some Scott as I haven’t read him since childhood -79 years ago!

[Rosemary]

I own Great Apes so I really should vote for that, but my previous attempt to read a Will Self book ended badly, so I could probably be swayed towards something else...

Oh wait. I also have The Real Charlotte. That sounds much more fun. But it's on my Takedown list...

[Kristel]

I've read 18 including the excluded books. I really don't have any these on my shelf except Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. I am interested in Rickshaw Boy. And also Singer but don't know how hard it would be to locate those books.

[Pip]

Actually 18 with excluded books - and I meant 70 not 79 years!

[Diane]

There are actually 3 I haven't read, which is more than I anticipated:

How the Dead Live
Dining on Stones
Downriver

I will be voting for How the Dead Live

[Amanda]

I"ll also vote for "how the dead live" with you, Diane. It's on open library and the only book mentioned so far I haven't read other than Downriver.

[Gail]

I have read 13 of these.
I could read either Rob Roy or The Monastery but I have recently read Ivanhoe.
I actually have a physical copy of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness so that would be nice.
I just read Singer's The Manor but could go with The Magician of Lublin
I can also get a copy of How the Dead Live if everyone goes that way.

[Patrick]

I have gone through 21 of these so far. My TBR shelf has a few:

- Rob Roy (Scott)
- The Emigrants (Sebald)
- Death and the Dervish (Selimovic)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Sillitoe)
- Winter (Smith)
- The Real Charlotte (Somerville & Ross)
- Some Experiences of a Irish RM (Somerville & Ross)

Some of you have already hit my list, so I will decide a bit later where my preference lie.

[Jamie]

I've read 16 of the books from this segment of the List, incuding 3 of the excluded ones.

The ones I have or can easily access and have not read yet are:

Bernhard Schlink- The Reader, 1995, 216 pages

Walter Scott- Rob Roy, 1817, 501 pages, or The Monastery 1820, 370 pages

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis, 1896, 589 pgs

I think at the moment I am leaning towards Sir Walter Scott.

[[deleted user]]

Only 1 book excluded from the randomiser this time...

Frankenstein

[George P.]

I've read only ten of these and a lot (13) of the others are on my (very long) to-read list.
Those I most favor/ highest on my to-read list are; Cancer Ward, Winter and The Case of Comrade Tulayev. The only one of these already favored is Winter, mentioned by Patrick.
Mentioned books I might also vote for: Memoirs of my Nervous Illness, Magician of Lublin, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning.
I think I can get all of these at one library or another.

[George P.]

Patrick, if yiou decide to vote for
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Sillitoe)
or - Winter (Smith)
I will vote for either.

[Kristel]

As mentioned earlier, I have Saturday Night and Sunday Morning so would be up for that.

[Patrick]

On a cold Thursday morning, I have made my choice and voted.

[George P.]

Kristel wrote: "As mentioned earlier, I have Saturday Night and Sunday Morning so would be up for that."

ok I'm going for that.

[Karen]

I have only read Ivanhoe, Frankenstein, Quo Vadis, Animal's People and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Oh dear.

I would be down for reading anything from Scott or A Town Like Alice or anything by Smollett.

[Diana S]

Frankenstein

[Kristel]

Diana S wrote: "Frankenstein"

Hello Diane S. Sorry. Your vote didn't count, you needed to send it by private message. Check out the directions. Hope you can catch the next vote!

[Kristel]

Announcing Winners. August botm
Popular Vote: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Randomizer: The Rings of Saturn

[Rosemary]

The randomizer, The Rings of Saturn, looks like a close relation of my current TBR Takedown book London Orbital, of which I am now wading towards the end. So it will be interesting from that point of view, although I'm relieved to see that Sebald's book is significantly shorter ;)

[Patrick]

With a bit of luck, I might be able for once to read both BOTMs. While I have the Sillitoe book, I have just purchased the wrong Sebald (The Emigrants). I might be able to secure The Rings of Saturn nearer August. My aim for the next three months is to read at least 4 books per month, as I won't have to read the next quarterly (read it before).

[Amanda]

Rings of Saturn is on open library and I'll be reading that one. Have already read and going to pass on the other one.

[Gail]

Going to try and read both. I have access to both.

[George P.]

Neither of these books were very high on my to-read list, though both in there. I voted for Saturday Night... but I think I might rather read The Rings of Saturn, which no one was pulling for in the thread. I can't fit both into my schedule. It has an average rating in goodreads of 4.24 which is very strong. I did read a Sebald novel in the past, Austerlitz, which I didn't really like very much, but perhaps I will like this one. One of my GR friends who has read a great many books called it "Simply the best book I have ever read."
I plan to have read Cancer Ward and Winter by the time this author group comes up again.