250 Novels

Record of Votes

For the List of Novels you might want to read in your life-time if you get half the chance.

Poll on great week end read – 7 June 2011:

– The Secret History  by Donna Tartt, with six votes,

Novel added.

Runners up were:

– A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka with four votes,

– The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell with two votes,

– The Long Way Down by Nick Hornby with two votes.

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Poll on dystopian novels  – 20 March 2011:

– The Handmaid’s Tail by Margaret Atwood, with two votes.

Novel added.

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World Book Night poll  – 5 March 2011:

In first place:

Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda – Nigeria,

with thirteen votes (68%).

In joint second place:

Kate Atkinson – Case Histories – UK,

Alan Bennett – A Life Like Other People’s – UK,

Toni Morrison -  Beloved – US,

with eleven votes each (58%).

These four novels added.

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Ta-Shi Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory – UK/Malaysia – 22 January 2011

Six voted for this Novel, One voted for Yu Hua’s To Live, No one voted for Timothy Mo’s An Insular possession.

85% of participants voted for The Harmony Silk Factory,

Novel added.

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Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – UK / English – 19 December 2010

Seven voted “for”, six voted “against”, one selected “maybe”.

53% of participants voted “for”.

Novel added to the list.

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Bruce Chatwin – On The Black Hill – UK / English – 30 November 2010

Three voted “for”, four voted “against”, two selected “maybe”.

43% of participants voted “for”.

Novel was not added to the list.