Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Inform My Reading List! The Modern Novels

The voting for modern novels is now closed!! I accounted for late entries from Sarah and Shanthala, and then cast fourteen votes myself.

These were my picks:

1) Money; 2) Bridge on the Drina; 3) The Master and Margarita; 4) Possession; 5) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; 6) the Tin Drum; 7) The End of the Affair; 8) The Unconsoled; 9) Kafka on the Shore; 10) Lolita; 11) A House for Mr. Biswas; 12) The Financial Expert; 13) Housekeeping; 14) Midnight's Children.

And Now:

The Winners!

1. Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (6)
2. Pamuk, My Name is Red (5)
3. Robinson, Housekeeping (4)
3. Updike, the other Rabbit books after Rabbit, Run (4)
5. Andric, Bridge on the Drina (3)
5. DeWitt, The Last Samurai (3)
5. Byatt, Possession (3)
5. Greene, The End of the Affair (3)
5. Nabakov, Lolita (3)
5. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (3)
5. Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (3)
5. Greene, The Quiet American (3)
5. Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (3)
5. Moore/Gibbons, Watchmen (3)
5. Nabakov, Pnin (3)
5. Smiley, A Thousand Acres (3)
5. Stegner, Angle of Repose (3)
5. Ishiguro, The Unconsoled (3)

Have I mentioned, you gentle readers are just awesome for playing along? You've made a simple blogger very happy.

Anybody for some SERIOUSLY OLD BOOKS?

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