Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Book circle voting list

Here is the list we're going to vote on.  We need to vote for 12 books.  You don't have to vote for the ones you suggested. 

There are 3 ways to vote.
1. Go to the shared Google doc and place a | next to the books you wish to vote for.
2. Email me your 12 selections to pdugmore2001 at yahoo dot co dot nz. (I won't reveal who voted for what).
3. Leave a comment with your 12 selections.

Last year we ended up with some clear "winners" i.e. some with more than one vote, so that made it reasonably easy to rank the 12 books.  If we do end up with lots of books with single votes, I shall randomise them and choose the first 12.  Please make your selections by 24th January 2010 and I will announce the list in my next post (which will also include a give away).

Let the voting begin!!

Fiction

The Glasshouse / Sophie Cooke
 
Carry Me Down / M J Hyland

 
Access Road / Maurice Gee
 
A Gate At The Stairs / Lorrie Moore

Every Man Dies Alone / Hans Fallada.

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel / Jeannette Walls

Love and Summer / William Trevor

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater / Frank Bruni


The other hand / Chris Cleave.


The road / Cormac McCarthy.


The echo maker / Richard Powers.


Novel about my wife / Emily Perkins.


The year of the Shanghai Shark / Mo Zhi Hong.


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Sense and sensibility and sea- monsters / Jane Austen and Ben H Winters

A Thousand Splendid Suns/ Khaled Hosseini

March / Geraldine Brooks

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress / Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke (trans.)

Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel

Blindsight / Maurice Gee

Limestone / Fiona Farrell

The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins


In the kitchen / Monica Ali

Cloudstreet / Tim Winton

The lacuna / Barbara Kingsolver

Day after night / Anita Diamant

Blood bond / Michael Gree

The kinds mistress / Emma Campion

Tears of Pearl / Alexander Tasha
 
The child thief /  Brom

Relics of the dead / Franklin, Ariana.  
 
Empire / Orson Scott Card

Her fearful symmetry / Audrey Niffenegger

The Graveyard Book / Neil Gaiman

Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon / David Grann

Big Machine / Victor LaValle

Await Your Reply / Dan Chaon

The Believers / Zoë Heller

Strength in What Remains / Tracy Kidder
 
The Girl on the Landing /Paul Torda

The School of Essential Ingredients / Erica Bauermeister

Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs / Linda Olsson

Good to a Fault / Marina Endicott

Blood Ties / Sam Hayes
 
Unspoken / Sam Hayes.

Land of marvels / Barry Unsworth

The crimson petal and the white / Michel Faber

The 10pm Question / Kate De Goldi

Non Fiction

Replenishing the Earth : the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939 / James Belich.


The bolter : Idina Sackville- the woman who scandalised 1920s society and became White mischief's infamous seductress / Frances Osborne.


And then there's this : how stories live and die in viral culture / Bill Wasik.


Bad Science / Ben Goldacre


Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell

 Year of magical thinking / Joan Didion

Eating Animals / Jonathan Safran Foer

Twitterature - the world's greatest books retold through twitter
 
Up till now / William Shatner
 
I am Ozzy / Osbourne, Ozzy

The talented Miss Highsmith /Joan Schenkar (biography of Patricia Highsmith)

2 comments:

  1. 1. Carry Me Down / M J Hyland
    2. The other hand / Chris Cleave
    3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress / Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke (trans.)
    4. Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel
    5. Empire / Orson Scott Card
    6. March / Geraldine Brooks
    7. Land of marvels / Barry Unsworth
    8. The crimson petal and the white / Michel Faber
    9. Novel about my wife / Emily Perkins
    10. Year of magical thinking / Joan Didion
    11. Eating Animals / Jonathan Safran Foer
    12. The talented Miss Highsmith /Joan Schenkar

    Some great titles in the whole list, many of which I've read (hence no vote from me).

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  2. The girl on the landing
    Born round:...
    Love & summer
    In the kitchen
    The kinds mistress
    Let me sing you gentle songs
    The crimson petal & white
    Tears of pearl
    The Bolter
    Bad science
    Blood bond
    Novel about my wife

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