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created Aug 31, 2025 07:29AM PDT
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November 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963) from Four for Tomorrow by Roger Zelazny
The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off from Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
created Aug 16, 2025 09:55AM PDT
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3rd Quarter (October - December) 2025 Long Read Poll
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2004, 1006 pages
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 2005, 704 pages
World's End by Upton Sinclair, 1940, 740 pages
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, 2000, 678 pages
Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988, 868 pages
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 1961, 623 pages
Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, 1898, 664 pages
created Aug 14, 2025 11:30PM PDT
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October 2025 New School Classics Poll
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940) 292 pages
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) 318 pages
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (1981) 454 pages
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (1937) 299 pages
A Covenant With Death by Stephen Becker (1964) 240 pages
created Aug 14, 2025 04:10PM PDT
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October 2025 Old School Classics Poll
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac, 1846, 486pp
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 1678, 324pp
Mr. Harrison's Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1850, 80pp
New Grub Street by George Gissing, 1891, 560pp
Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum, 1899, 273 pp
Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood, 1719, 286pp
created Aug 01, 2025 07:11AM PDT
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October 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
created Jul 14, 2025 11:34PM PDT
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September 2025 New School Poll
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1977) 144 pages
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. (1982), 448 pages
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1957) 201 pages
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (1983) 138 pages
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1937) 148 pages
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977) 96 pages
Nadja by André Breton (1928) 160 pages
created Jul 14, 2025 11:41AM PDT
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September 2025 Old School Classics Group Read Poll
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 1905, 351 pp
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, 1375, 144 pp
What Maisie Knew by Henry James, 1897, 252 pp
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896, 589 pp
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth, 1812, 277 pp
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore, 1910, 580 pp
created Jul 02, 2025 08:36AM PDT
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September 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
Peter by Willa Cather
The Other Shore title play by Gao Xingjian
The Last Day in the Field from The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
created Jun 15, 2025 08:28PM PDT
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August 2025 New School Poll
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941), 253 pages
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) 170 pages
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (1969), 470 pages
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934) 352 pages
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (1943) 256 pages
Manhatten Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) 342 pages
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941) 478 pages
created Jun 14, 2025 01:02PM PDT
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August 2025 Old School Classics Poll
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard, 1887, 204 pp
created Jun 01, 2025 06:27AM PDT
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August 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
A River Runs through It Title Story by Norman Maclean
The Judgment of Vulcan by Lee Foster Hartman found in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
Each in His Generation by Maxwell Struthers Burt found in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
created May 15, 2025 11:03AM PDT
poll #12
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3rd Quarter 2025 Long Reads (July - September)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, c. 1000, 1182 pages
No Name by Wilkie Collins, 1862, 748 pages
Hawaii by James A. Michener, 1959, 937 pages
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 1749, 975 pages
Lincoln by Gore Vidal, 1984, 672 pages
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne, 1580, 1344 pages
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990, 676 pages
created May 14, 2025 10:20PM PDT
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July 2025 New School Poll
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) 351 pages
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (1953) 326 pages
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (1956) 501 pages
Childhood / Youth / Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (1967) 370 pages
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel (1926) 247 pages.
created May 14, 2025 12:08PM PDT
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July 2025 Old School Classics Poll
The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 577 pp
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 1885, 600+ pp
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H.G. Wells, 1896, 192 pp
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, 1880, 146 pp
created Apr 30, 2025 06:28AM PDT
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July 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
Kneel to the Rising Sun and Other Stories Title Story by Erskine Caldwell
created Apr 14, 2025 04:32PM PDT
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June 2025 New School Poll
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2001) 487 pages
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1936) 116 pages, last read January 2019
The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1955) 180 pages
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (1983) 138 pages
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (1956) 372 pages
Manhatten Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) 342 pages
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936) 182 pages
created Apr 14, 2025 04:07PM PDT
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June 2025 Old School Classics Poll
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 122 pages, 1913
The Devil's Pool by George Sand, 108 pages, 1846
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, 242 pages, 1883
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt, 224 pages, 1900
created Mar 31, 2025 05:43AM PDT
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June 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty
created Mar 14, 2025 08:38PM PDT
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May 2025 - Old School Classics Poll
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, 1901, 278 p
created Mar 14, 2025 08:20PM PDT
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May 2025 - New School Poll
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003) 537 pages
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980) 219 pages
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (1939) 448 pages
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett (1951) 127 pages
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. (1978) 279 pages
Random Harvest by James Hilton (1941) 326 pages
In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor (1961) 259 pages
created Feb 28, 2025 05:38AM PST
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May 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges found in The Garden of Forking Paths
created Feb 15, 2025 08:36AM PST
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2nd Quarter 2025 Long Read
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, 1838, 817 pages
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2004, 1006 pages
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, 2000, 710 pages
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1000, 1182 pages
Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988, 868 pages
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, 2000, 639 pages
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 1749, 975 pages
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, 1977, 629 pages
created Feb 14, 2025 10:12PM PST
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April 2025 New School Poll
1984 by George Orwell (1949) 328 pages
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (1951) 186 pages
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (1943) 192 pages
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970) 106 pages,
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (1969) 384 pages
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951) 537 pages
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1947) 347 pages
created Feb 14, 2025 04:41PM PST
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April 2025 Old School Classics Poll
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, 65 AD, 254 pp
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pp
Little Fadette by George Sand, 1848, 185 pp
created Jan 31, 2025 08:52AM PST
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April 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll
Viy by Nikolai Gogol
created Jan 15, 2025 07:21AM PST
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New School Poll March 2025
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier (1969) 288 pages.
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (1955) 162 pages.
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (1977) 197 pages.
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (1922) 272 pages.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003) 537 pages.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (1935) 337 pages.
created Jan 14, 2025 08:02PM PST
poll #27
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March 2025 Old School Classics Poll
My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins, 1878, 140 pp
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, 1869, 118 pp
created Dec 31, 2024 07:38AM PST
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March 2025 Short Story/Novella Poll
Bliss from The Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories title story by Sandra Cisneros
created Dec 15, 2024 05:57AM PST
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February 2025 Short Story.Novella Poll
created Dec 14, 2024 08:01PM PST
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February 2025 New School Poll
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) 288 pages
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Last read October 2016, (1952), 581 pages
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952) 231 pages
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa (2000) 159 pages
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich (2001) 368 pages
