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I am starting early. Traveling from Florida to Minnesota by plan tonight and tomorrow might be hard to have time to post books so I am starting now. I will be there for 5 days to see my granddaughters play.

Authors are Fielding through Gibson. Voting is open from the 15th through the 23. Winners announced on the 24th. Please review the list of authors and the books that are eligible in this post.


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Books Excluded.
Henry Fielding books; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: Part 1 and Amelia
Everything Is Illuminated, 2002, 176 pgs,, botm 2021
The Corrections > than 600 pgs
The Recognitions > 900 pgs
Memory of Fire, >900 pgs
The Forsyte Saga

Henry Fielding - UK
1. Joseph Andrews, 400

Timothy Findley - Canada
2. The Wars - 1977, 218 pgs

F. Scott Fitzgerald, US
3. Tender Is the Night - 1934, 315, botm 2009, 2017
4. The Great Gatsby, 1925, 200 pg

Gustave Flaubert - France
1. Madame Bovary - 329 pgs, 209, 2011 botm
2. A Sentimental Education, 420 pg, 1869
3. Bouvard and Pecuchet, 1881, 328 pgs
4. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1874, 304 pgs

Ian Fleming, UK
5. Casino Royale, botm 2013

Theodor Fontane, Germany
6. Effi Briest, 272 pgs
7. The Stechlin, 340 pgs

Ford Madox Ford England
8. The Good Soldier, 368 pgs

E.M. Forster - England
9. A Passage to India
10. Howards End
11. A Room With a View
12. Where Angels Fear to Tread

John Fowles UK
13. A Maggot
14. The French Lieutenant's Woman, 2015 botm
15. The Magus
16. The Collector

Janet Frame - New Zealand
17. Faces in the Water, 254 pgs

Anatole France, France
18. �ճ�ï��, 175 pgs

Julia Franck - German
19. The Blindness of the Heart, 416, 207

Jonathan Franzen US
20. Freedom, 562 pgs

Marianne Fredriksson - Sweden
21. Simon and the Oaks, 537 pgs

Esther Freud - UK
22. Hideous Kinky, 192 pgs

Max Frisch, Swiss
23. Homo Faber pg 288
24. I'm Not Stiller pg 386

Carlos Fuentes - Panama
25. The Death of Artemio Cruz, 2019 botm

Carmen Martín Gaite - Spain
26. The Back Room

Paul Gallico, US
27. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, 2013 botm

Janice Galloway - Scotland
28. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, 236 pgs

Gabriel García Márquez, Columbia
29 One Hundred Years of Solitude
30. Love in the Time of Cholera
31. Autumn of the Patriarch
32. No One Writes to the Colonel

Géza Gárdonyi - Hungary
33. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, 560 pgs

Alan Garner - England
34. Thursbitch, 160 pgs, 2003.

Romain Gary - Lithuania
35. The Roots of Heaven - 2017 botm
36. Promise at Dawn

Elizabeth Gaskell - England
37. Mary Barton 2013 botm
38. Cranford
39. North and South - 2011 botm

David Gemmell - UK
40. Legend, 2017 botm

Zulfikar Ghose - Pakistan
41. The Triple Mirror of the Self, 343 pgs

Amitav Ghosh - India
42. The Shadow Lines, 2015 botm

Stella Gibbons - UK
43. Cold Comfort Farm, 2015 botm

William Gibson - US
44. Neuromancer, 2013 botm

That's our list for May 2023. What would you like to read?

I have read 28 so far, so not much scope for choice. My TBR shelf only has:

The Collector (Fowles)
Faces in the Water (Frame)

Let's wait and see.

I've got 6 I haven't read which is good for me. Open to any:

-Bouvard and Pecuchet
-A Maggot
-The blindness of the heart
-Simon and the Oaks
-The Stechlin
-I'm not stiller

Wow, I have read 28 of these, including the long ones. I have A Sentimental Education, North & South and The Magus on my TBR shelf - but they are all quite long. I could vote for Faces in the Water because I am interested in everyone’s responses to this N.Z. work.

I’ve read 32. I have on my shelf
The Good Soldier
A Maggot
Hideous Kinky

There are others I am interested in so I’ll be anxiously waiting to see what the randomized and votes will choose.

I've read 12 of the eligible books, which is a good showing for me. I'm most interested in Cold Comfort Farm, Mary Barton, and Promise at Dawn, but I have a few of the others too.

I've read 29. I think the only one I have on my shelf is Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, which I found used recently.

Of those that have been mentioned, the ones I haven't read are
-The Blindness of the Heart (aka The Blind Side of the Heart)*
-Simon and the Oaks
-The Stechlin
-I'm Not Stiller*

*My library has these two. Simon and the Oaks isn't expensive. The Stechlin has a cheap Kindle edition with a bad review for the translation, or an expensive paperback (in the UK).

I have only read 10 of these. I really enjoyed Simon and the Oaks, Faces in the Water and Hideous Kinky. I don't think I want any more Ford this year. I would like to read more E.M. Forster but that doesn't seem popular with the group.

I have read 11 and would like to read Faces in the Water and will likely vote for that.
On Amanda's list I have only read I'm not Stiller so I would be open as usual any way the voting goes and actually I would even like to read any of the Forsters.

I've only read 4 (I've only recently decided to start reading the list more seriously). Think I'll vote for I'm Not Stiller.

I've read all the Forsters except for Passage to India. I'm open to reading that, but I find him a bit dull. I think I am generally not that keen on the 1900-1930 period of British literature.

I've read 18 so far (41%), more than my usual proportion. The only one that's in my next 100 to-reads is Neuromancer, but Stiller is only a little farther down- Mette says she voted for that and maybe another member will too, so I'll go with Stiller.
There's about a 2% chance the randomizer will pick Neuromancer also.

Pip wrote: I could vote for Faces in the Water because I am interested in everyone’s responses to this N.Z. work."

I thought it a great read, rated it 5 stars

I've read Tom Jones (excluded), The Great Gatsby, Madame Bovary, Casino Royale, Howards End, A Room With a View, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Hideous Kinky, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Love in the Time of Cholera, Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South and Cold Comfort Farm.

I am most interested in Effi Brest or The Collector.

Don't know how popular it will be but I'm voting for I'm not Stiller.

Announcing Winners for May 2023
Popular Vote was I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch. Swiss author. Only a few people voted and only 3 books received votes.
Randomizer chose: The Stechlin by Theodor Fontane. German author.

What will you be reading?

I did not own either of these. I purchased I'm Not Stiller. Audible had it. I will not be reading The Stechlin as it $32.22 at Amazon. Of course I will check to see if it is available elsewhere but I think it is going to be hard to find.

I have read I’m Not Stiller so I will be looking for the Stechlin at a lower price than $32.22

This is exciting for me: 2 books I haven't read! I'm not Stiller is available as an ebook on my library app, and just found the Stechlin on kindle for 5$. It has ratings saying the translation is awkward but I read a little bit and it was fine.

Great. $5 is doable. Thanks Amanda

Amanda wrote: "This is exciting for me: 2 books I haven't read! I'm not Stiller is available as an ebook on my library app, and just found the Stechlin on kindle for 5$. It has ratings saying the translation is a..."

Unable to find a kindle version when I searched. Could this be in Canada only? I see you’re in Quebec. Is French your primary language? Do you read most of your books in English or French?

It's an English translation I found (I do read most of my books in English since it's my first language and French is my second), might be exclusive to Canada though?

I just went on Amazon.com instead of amazon.ca to check and it seems to be here:

It's 3.99$ US which checks out for price differences lol. Hope this works for you!

Kristel, try going to “the kindle store�� on amazon rather than through their main site page. It is there for $3.99.
If anyone reads German it is widely available and very inexpensive.

Der Stechlin is in the public domain and there's a free version for Kindle, so I'll give it a go.

I'm not Stiller is £15 on Kindle, and not available in print through amazon. lol Even the German edition is £13 for a paperback. And I'm not sure if he wrote in standardised High German or in Swiss German (which I will not attempt to read).
I might look for a second hand paperback in English. But I'll probably be plenty busy with Stechlin.

I’m Not Stiller is in Open Library. And The Stechlin is on Kindle so I am all set for May!

I will also get The Stechlin for Kindle. Let's see what we think of the translation, given that bad review!

I'm Not Stiller is in my local library. I can also see one on eBay UK for £5.99 inc postage, but I will leave it there :)

Leni, eBay is often cheaper than Amazon for books in the UK (if you are still in Wales!). Also more choice of editions, you can see better what you are getting.

I don't have either and they would be quite hard to get from here in Australia, so I'll skip that month. That would probably help me to finish Clarissa earlier than I expected.

Gail wrote: "Kristel, try going to “the kindle store�� on amazon rather than through their main site page. It is there for $3.99.
If anyone reads German it is widely available and very inexpensive."

Thank you, I now will be trying to read both

I'll read I'm Not Stiller. I've read one book by a Swiss author before (de Botton's On Love). The local libraries don't have it but I can get the ebook from the Oregon library account of my son and read on my kindle.
Betterworldbooks which is a nonprofit charity in the US, has some copies for about $7, free shipping.

I'm probably skipping this month as I already have several other bookclub reads going on and none of those books is very short.