1AnnieMod
I absolutely spaced out and forgot that I never posted. Sorry about that :(
Nomination gives a point to the author. Seconding, thirding and so on and all other kinds of support add a point as well. The 3 authors with the most points win in the order of the number of votes they got (unless one or more of the 3 has an anniversary or something - in which case I will try to match them to their month). Ties that produce more than 3 authors overall at the top will be broken with an admin half-vote and everyone who is in a tie but does not make it into this selection, gets half a point for next time.
Anyone is eligible to be nominated except for the authors we had read the last 24 months: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Monthly_Author_Reads#Recent_Picks . It is preferred that the author has at least some works in English (original or translated) -- most of the participants read in English (even if some may be able to also use other languages) :)
Just to make everyone's life easier (so you do not need to click on the wiki if you do not want to), here is the list of ineligible authors this time around:
Honoré de Balzac
Emily St. John Mandel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colson Whitehead
The Brontë Sisters
Willa Cather
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Walter Scott
Wilkie Collins
Maggie O'Farrell
Margaret Atwood
Émile Zola
James Baldwin
Jane Gardam
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
John Le Carré
James McBride
Pearl S. Buck
Henry James
Elizabeth Taylor (The author, not the actress).
E. M. Forster
Deadline - June 23 2025, whatever time I get around to counting :)
Nomination gives a point to the author. Seconding, thirding and so on and all other kinds of support add a point as well. The 3 authors with the most points win in the order of the number of votes they got (unless one or more of the 3 has an anniversary or something - in which case I will try to match them to their month). Ties that produce more than 3 authors overall at the top will be broken with an admin half-vote and everyone who is in a tie but does not make it into this selection, gets half a point for next time.
Anyone is eligible to be nominated except for the authors we had read the last 24 months: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Monthly_Author_Reads#Recent_Picks . It is preferred that the author has at least some works in English (original or translated) -- most of the participants read in English (even if some may be able to also use other languages) :)
Just to make everyone's life easier (so you do not need to click on the wiki if you do not want to), here is the list of ineligible authors this time around:
Honoré de Balzac
Emily St. John Mandel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colson Whitehead
The Brontë Sisters
Willa Cather
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Walter Scott
Wilkie Collins
Maggie O'Farrell
Margaret Atwood
Émile Zola
James Baldwin
Jane Gardam
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
John Le Carré
James McBride
Pearl S. Buck
Henry James
Elizabeth Taylor (The author, not the actress).
E. M. Forster
Deadline - June 23 2025, whatever time I get around to counting :)
8MissWatson
I second William Thackeray and Mary Elizabeth Braddon
9AnnieMod
All votes are in:
3: Mary Elizabeth Braddon - john257hopper, kac522, MissWatson
3: Kazuo Ishiguro - kac522, MissWatson, john257hopper
2: José Saramago - kjuliff, DAGray08
2: William Thackeray - john257hopper, MissWatson
2: George Sand - MissWatson, kac522
1: Helen Garner - kjuliff
1: Javier Marias - kjuliff
1: James Herriot - kac522
1: Niall Williams - kac522
1: Nevill Shute - john257hopper
1: G A Henty - john257hopper
1: Somerset Maugham - john257hopper
1: J S Fletcher - john257hopper
1: John Grisham - john257hopper
1: Richard Marsh - john257hopper
1: Chinua Achebe - DAGray08
1: Caryl Phillips - DAGray08
Which means:
July: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (a departure for her - we usually read her in June (both in 2011 and 2022) :)
August: Kazuo Ishiguro
September: José Saramago
William Thackeray and George Sand get 1/2 point each for the next voting cycle which should be in August (even put a reminder on my phone so hopefully I won't forget again).
3: Mary Elizabeth Braddon - john257hopper, kac522, MissWatson
3: Kazuo Ishiguro - kac522, MissWatson, john257hopper
2: José Saramago - kjuliff, DAGray08
2: William Thackeray - john257hopper, MissWatson
2: George Sand - MissWatson, kac522
1: Helen Garner - kjuliff
1: Javier Marias - kjuliff
1: James Herriot - kac522
1: Niall Williams - kac522
1: Nevill Shute - john257hopper
1: G A Henty - john257hopper
1: Somerset Maugham - john257hopper
1: J S Fletcher - john257hopper
1: John Grisham - john257hopper
1: Richard Marsh - john257hopper
1: Chinua Achebe - DAGray08
1: Caryl Phillips - DAGray08
Which means:
July: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (a departure for her - we usually read her in June (both in 2011 and 2022) :)
August: Kazuo Ishiguro
September: José Saramago
William Thackeray and George Sand get 1/2 point each for the next voting cycle which should be in August (even put a reminder on my phone so hopefully I won't forget again).
10MissWatson
Looking foreward to this!
11AnnieMod
July topic (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/371950
The rest will be up later today.
The rest will be up later today.
12john257hopper
Is the August thread for Kazuo Ishiguro up yet?
13AnnieMod
>12 john257hopper: Oops. I will start it in the morning when I am in front of a proper keyboard.
14john257hopper
>13 AnnieMod: Thanks Annie
16AnnieMod
And September is up: José Saramago: https://www.librarything.com/topic/372820
Plus: come vote for the last 3 months of the year:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/372819
Plus: come vote for the last 3 months of the year:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/372819
