OK Brandon, you're on. Here's my latest round of picks.
I wasn't around for round 1, so this is really only my second set of nominations. This time I am focusing on books I have never read (unlike last time) by authors I enjoy. There is something for everyone here, I hope.
Cakes And Ale - W. Somerset Maugham - I enjoy Maugham, but have never read this one. He is mainly known for Of Human Bondage, a book I hear is widely regarded as one of the most depressing in the English language (though I really liked it). This one is supposed to be one from his lighter side.
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein - One of Heinlein's best known, but one I have never read.
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - This is one of Waugh's best known novels, and one I have not read. I have enjoyed Scoop, Black Mischief, and others, though.
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fitzgerald's first novel. I have always meant to get to this one, but never have.
Bone - Jeff Smith - And now for something completely different...a graphic novel. This is the complete series in one volume. Though I have it, I have never read the whole thing as I came to the comic toward it's conclusion. This is more light-hearted fare, but not something you can breeze through as it weighs in at about 1300 pages.
The Tolkien Reader - J.R.R. Tolkien - Believe it or not, I have never read this book by perhaps my single favourite writer...and I have slogged through The Silmarillion at least four time...so I thought maybe it's about time.
6 - Stranger
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4 - Cakes and Ale
3 - Brideshead
2 - Tolkien
1 - Bone
6- Paradise
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4- Stranger
3- Bone
2- Tolkien
1- Brideshead
6 Tolkien Reader
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4 Cakes and Ale
3 Bone
2 Stranger
1 Brideshead
6-This side of paradise
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4-Cakes and Ale
3-Stranger
2-Tolkien
1-Brideshead
So far, it looks like This Side of Paradise is the favourite, closely followed by Cakes and Ale, the Stranger in a Strange Land with four people voting.
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