July - September 2026 Nominations and voting

And later than usual (sorry :()

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.

The following authors start with 1/2 point each due to the tie last time:
Honore de Balzac

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 aka our April 2024-March 2026 authors:

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
E. M. Forster
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Kazuo Ishiguro
José Saramago
Alexandre Dumas, père
Thomas Hardy
Jung Chang
George Orwell
John Wyndham
Ismail Kadare
Julian Barnes
Marguerite Yourcenar
Nevil Shute

Deadline - June 15, 2026, whatever time I get around to counting :)

I keep trying: dawn powell truman capute brought her back to he scene his involvement shoulnntkeep you from reading her .Her books abou the new york scene as good as they wore back back then, if no takers ill just have reread all of them

I'll nominate Canadian author Gabrielle Roy.

I'll nominate J S Fletcher.

Trying again, so nominating George Gissing

>5 SassyLassy: I'll second Gissing.

Oh, Gissing is a good idea. I’ll have a look at my shelves for inspiration...

I nominate H G Wells, G A Henty, Jules Verne, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope.

I second Anthony Trollope.

Another vote for Trollope and Shaw.

2nd gabreil roy another canadian author i shouod read

I add my votes for Balzac and Gabriel Roy. I nominate the recent Nobel winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the writer I intend to revisit Annie Proulx

I nominate Oscar Wilde.

ditto

I second or third Oscar Wilde.

And the results are in:

3: Gabrielle Roy - kac522, cindydavid4, VladysKovsky
3: George Gissing - SassyLassy, john257hopper, MissWatson
3: Anthony Trollope - john257hopper, MissWatson, kac522
3: Oscar Wilde - MissWatson, cindydavid4, john257hopper

2: George Bernard Shaw - john257hopper, kac522

1 1/2: Honore de Balzac - 1/2, VladysKovsky

1: dawn powell - cindydavid4
1: J S Fletcher - john257hopper
1: H G Wells - john257hopper
1: G A Henty - john257hopper
1: Jules Verne - john257hopper
1: Arthur Conan Doyle - john257hopper
1: Laszlo Krasznahorkai - VladysKovsky
1: Annie Proulx - VladysKovsky

And after some very complicated thinking (I swear, I did not flip a coin and if anyone is interested, I was torn between Trollope and Wilde - the other 2 were making it in for sure under the unofficial but usually followed "try to have at least one selected for everyone who bothered to vote" tie-breaking rule):

Gabrielle Roy - July
George Gissing - August
Anthony Trollope - September

Oscar Wilde gets a 1/2 point for next time.

Threads will be up later this week. Next voting window: August (and I will try not to space out again) :)

Looks like a great quarter. Thanks for working through the complications!

Thanks for setting us up, Annie!

My thanks to Kathy and Cindy! I already got The Hidden Mountain from the library. I will try to read it in French.

Big thanks to Annie for running this!