October-December 2023 Nominations and Voting

Time to pick our next 3 authors.

The 22 we read between October 2021 and September 2023 are ineligible: their list is in the wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Monthly_Author_Reads#Recent_Picks

Anyone else is fair game -- although they should preferably have at least something published in English.

The following authors have half a point from last time:
Willa Cather
Colson Whitehead
Emile Zola
Georges Simenon
H. Rider Haggard

Nomination gives a point to the author. Seconding, thirding and so on and all other kinds of support add a point as well.

Deadline: August 24, 2023 or until I post the results on the morning of 25th anyway.

In case of ties, I pick who we read, the remainder of the tied authors go into the next round with half a point each.

I nominate Colson Whitehead and The Bronte Sisters.

I nominate Willa Cather to celebrate the 150th anniversary of her birth in December 1873.

I nominate Georges Simenon and second Willa Cather and Colson Whitehead.

>2 Tess_W: I second The Brontes

Results:

2.5: Colson Whitehead (Tess_W, MissWatson, 1/2)
2.5: Willa Cather (kac522, MissWatson, 1/2)
2: The Bronte Sisters (Tess_W, john257hopper)
1.5: Georges Simenon (MissWatson, 1/2)

So I will break the rules a bit and sent Cather into December (because anniversary and all that).

So the last 3 choices for 2023 are:
October: Colson Whitehead
November: The Bronte Sisters: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë
December: Willa Cather

No ties to carry into next year so we have a clear state for 2024. We are going to vote for January-March in November :)

The topics will be up later (possibly as late as mid September when I am back from a vacation).

Yeah! Thank you for doing all this!

Thanks!

Yes, thanks from me also Annie :)

And all topics are up:

October: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353542 Colson Whitehead
November: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353543 The Brontë Sisters
December: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353544 Willa Cather

>7 Tess_W: >8 MissWatson: >9 john257hopper: My pleasure :)

>10 AnnieMod: Thank you!

thinkiing for next year, have we read Emma Donogue? Would she be eligible?

>12 cindydavid4: We've never read her which makes her eligible at any time. The only 22 not eligible for the next nomination cycle (24 really because of the 3 Brontes) are:

Neil Shute
Wilkie Collins
Jhumpa Lahiri
M. M. Kaye
W. Somerset Maugham
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sebastian Barry
Luis Alberto Urrea
J. G. Farrell
Anthony Trollope
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Alan Brennert
Chaim Potok
Elizabeth von Arnim
Edna Ferber
Honoré de Balzac
Emily St. John Mandel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colson Whitehead
The Brontë Sisters
Willa Cather

cool, ok Ill nominate her when the time comes. She has many books that I think would be of interest, including her last one haven