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created Oct 01, 2016 08:13AM PDT poll #1 Featured
December 2016 - Uplifting Classic Books

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 1908
 
  12 votes 38.7%

The Princess Bride by William Goldman 1973
 
  9 votes 29.0%

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 1910
 
  4 votes 12.9%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather 1918
 
  3 votes 9.7%

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 1954
 
  3 votes 9.7%

31 total votes

created Sep 02, 2016 07:33PM PDT poll #2 Featured
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November 2016 Poll Pre-1910

 
  15 votes 35.7%

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 1895
 
  10 votes 23.8%

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola 1867
 
  8 votes 19.0%

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 1885
 
  7 votes 16.7%

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 1678
 
  2 votes 4.8%

42 total votes

created Jul 31, 2016 01:50PM PDT poll #3 Featured
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October 2016 Read - Thrills and Chills
This month we take a break from the regularly scheduled rotations to choose from 5 books that are all scary in one way or another. Which of these choices will keep you up at night? (Carmilla was the runner up last year.)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1872
QUICK READ
 
  31 votes 32.0%

 
  30 votes 30.9%

The October Country by Ray Bradbury 1955
 
  17 votes 17.5%

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 MONSTER
 
  13 votes 13.4%

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 1894
QUICK READ
 
  6 votes 6.2%

97 total votes

created Jun 29, 2016 07:16PM PDT poll #4 Featured
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September 2016 Poll: Books published between 1960-2005

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez 1967
 
  16 votes 29.6%

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1982
 
  12 votes 22.2%

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi 1990
 
  11 votes 20.4%

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 1993
 
  8 votes 14.8%

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2005
 
  7 votes 13.0%

54 total votes

created May 30, 2016 01:24PM PDT poll #5 Featured
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August 2016 Poll: Books published 1910-1959

1984 by George Orwell 1934
 
  42 votes 39.3%

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 1945
 
  26 votes 24.3%

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 1959
 
  16 votes 15.0%

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 1920
 
  15 votes 14.0%

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler 1940
 
  8 votes 7.5%

107 total votes

created Apr 30, 2016 01:24PM PDT poll #6 Featured
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It is time for the July Poll. The choices listed below were published before 1910. These books are all very well known classics so it will be interesting to see how the votes are distributed. Which book is on your "to read" shelf?

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 1861
 
  31 votes 34.8%

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 1811
 
  26 votes 29.2%

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville 1851
 
  13 votes 14.6%

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 1873
 
  13 votes 14.6%

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 1868
 
  6 votes 6.7%

89 total votes

created Apr 01, 2016 04:37AM PDT poll #7 Featured
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June Reading Poll: Its time to choose a book for June. These selections were published between 1960 and 2005. Our last Poll was determined by one last vote during the last few hours of the poll ... so your vote does count. Share your thoughts and experience with the selections.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
 
  26 votes 36.6%

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 1966 (Quick Read)
 
  23 votes 32.4%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 1980 (Monster)
 
  13 votes 18.3%

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez 1975
 
  6 votes 8.5%

Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt 1992
 
  3 votes 4.2%

71 total votes

created Feb 28, 2016 06:30PM PST poll #8 Featured
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May 2016 Reading Poll: It's time to choose a book for May. These five selections were written between 1910 and 1959. Share your thoughts if you are familiar with any of the books listed.

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck 1937
 
  28 votes 31.8%

Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence 1928
 
  27 votes 30.7%

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 1912
 
  16 votes 18.2%

Foundation by Isaac Asimov 1951
 
  13 votes 14.8%

Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener 1947
 
  4 votes 4.5%

88 total votes

created Jan 30, 2016 08:06PM PST poll #9 Featured
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April Reading Poll - Traditional Books
It's time for to pick a book for April. These selections were published pre-1910. Share your thoughts!

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (1372)
 
  35 votes 32.1%

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift (1726)
 
  28 votes 25.7%

The Woman in White Wilkie Collins (1859) MONSTER
 
  16 votes 14.7%

Hunger Knut Hamson (1890) QUICK READ
 
  15 votes 13.8%

 
  15 votes 13.8%

109 total votes

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