Friday, January 23, 2009

Votes so far

Just waiting on a couple more potential voters but this is how things are looking so far...

  1. The book thief / Markus Zusak    6
  2. Letter to my daughter / Maya Angelou    5
  3. The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman.    5
  4. The 19th Wife / David Ebershoff    4
  5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows    4
  6.  Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman    4
  7.  PS I love You / Cecelia Ahern    4
  8. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto / Michael Pollan    4
  9. Running With Scissors / Augusten Burroughs    3
  10. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer    3
  11. Mr Pip / Lloyd Jones    3
  12. The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larson    3
  13. The Girl on the Landing / Paul Torday    3
  14. Beautiful Boy/ David Sheeff    3
  15. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World    2
  16. The House of Spirits /Isabel Allende    2
  17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers    2
  18. Live Bodies / Maurice Gee    2
  19. A Mercy / Toni Morrison    2
  20. Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen    2
  21. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle / David Wroblewski    2
  22. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer    2
  23. Tu / Patricia Grace    2
  24. Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri    2
  25. The uncommon reader / Alan Bennett    2
  26. The middle place / Kelly Corrigan    2
  27. On Hitler's mountain : my Nazi childhood / Irmgard Hunt    2
  28. Shakespeare's Wife /Germaine Greer    2
  29. Three Cups of Tea /Greg Mortenson    2
  30. The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards    2
  31. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle / Barbara Kingsolver    2
  32. Atonement / Ian McEwan    1
  33. People of the Book: A Novel / Geraldine Brooks    1
  34. The opium clerk / Kunal Basu    1
  35. Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride    1
  36. What to do when someone dies / Nicci French    1
  37. Wild Swans : Daughters of China / Jung Chan    1
  38. The various flavours of coffee / Anthony Capella    1
  39. This horrid practice : the myth and reality of traditional Maori cannibalism / Paul Moon.    1
  40. A million little pieces / James Frey    1
  41. The Mitford Girls / Mary Lovell    1
  42. The Man Who Loved China / Simon Winchester    1
  43. The Lieutenant / Kate Grenville    1
  44. Life of Pi / Yann Martel    1
  45. The independence of Miss Mary Bennett / Colleen McCollough    1
  46. I know this much is true / Wally Lamb    1
  47. Enduring Love /Ian McEwan    1
  48. The Gathering / Anne Enright    1
  49. Back When We Were Grown Ups / Anne Tyler    1
  50. Blindsight / Maurice Gee    1
  51. Until the final hour : Hitler's last secretary / Traudl Junge ; edited by Melissa Müller    1
  52. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon    1
  53. Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden    1
  54. Shanharam: A Novel / Gregory David Roberts    1
  55. A thousand splendid suns /Khaled Hosseini    1
  56. The birthday present / Barbara Vine
  57. Durable Goods / Elizabeth Berg
  58. Eucalyptus / Murray Bail
  59. To Siberia / Per Patterson
  60. The minutes of the Lazurus Club / Tony Pollard
  61. Sophies World /Jostein Gaarder
  62. Water for elephants / Sara Gruen
  63. Books: A memoir / Larry McMurty
  64. Fantastic pasts : imaginary adventures in New Zealand history / Matthew Wright
  65. The journal of Helene Barr
  66. The last lecture / Randy Pausch
  67. Letters from the Bay of Islands: The story of Marianne Williams, Caroline Fitzgerald
  68. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe / Laurence Bergreen
  69. The Twelve little Cakes/ Dominika Dery
  70. Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
  71. The god of small things / Arundhati Roy
  72. The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood
  73. Mao's Last Dancer / Cunxin Li
  74. Maps for lost lovers / Nadeem Aslam
  75. Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach

Not sure how we'll deal with the tied titles at 12-14 but I think the randomiser might be put into action. ;-)

So - if you want to vote and haven't, please do so. Thanks! 

Have a great weekend too - ours is a long weekend due to Auckland Anniversary day.  Ours will involve roof painting so I hope your break is more exciting! LOL!

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4 comments:

  1. The list's looking great.
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    If you want to start with potato peel society I can lend you the book?

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  2. Interesting list - there seems to be a wife theme :)

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  3. Very interesting list, and I am very pleased to see a few that I voted for in the top part of the list. I might just have to head to the library over the weekend.

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