Sorry for the delay but vacation was quickly followed by new software launch and many, many extra hours at work. I’m just digging out now.

Anyway, here is the list of candidate books. If you want to read along, answer back with your top three choices in ranked order. So if your first choice is Herzog, second choice Infinite Jest, and third choice Tropic of Cancer, simply reply to the question with

8, 12, 28

I’ll keep voting open until next Wednesday, 30 September. Then I’ll tally up the votes and let everyone know what the first book will be sometime on Thursday, 1 October. That’ll give everyone a chance to get a copy of the book if they don’t already have one and read the first chapter/section/block of pages for the following week.

1. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
6. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
7. Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
8. Herzog by Saul Bellow
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
11. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
12. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
13. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
14. Justine by Lawrence Durrell
15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
16. Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
17. Replay by Ken Grimwood
18. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Gordon
19. The Dice Man by George Cockcroft (under the pen name Luke Rhinehart)
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. The Magus by John Fowles
22. The New York Trilogy (or just book 1, City of Glass) by Paul Auster
23. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
24. The River King by Alice Hoffman
25. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
26. The Stone Diaires by Carol Shields
27. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
28. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
29. Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan

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