January-March 2024 Nominations and Voting

It is that time again :)

The 22 (well, 24 really as we have a triple this month) we read between January 2022 and December 2023 are ineligible: their list is in the wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Monthly_Author_Reads#Recent_Picks

Anyone else is a fair game.

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 votes (unless someone has an anniversary or something - in which case will try to match them in 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.

Deadline: December 1, 2023, whatever time I get around to counting :)

I nominate Zadie Smith and Elizabeth Gaskell.

I second Zadie Smith and nominate Barbara Pym

I second Elizabeth Gaskell.

I nominate Maggie O'Farrell.

I nominate Emma Donogue

I second Maggie O Farell

I nominate Emily St. John Mandel

>6 kjuliff: Not eligible.

>6 kjuliff:, >7 AnnieMod: Right--not eligible because Emily St. John Mandel was featured this year in 2023. The idea is not to repeat an author from the last 2 years.

Just as a reminder, these are the authors that were featured in 2022 and 2023, and are NOT eligible for 2024:

Neil Shute
Wilkie Collins
Jhumpa Lahiri
M. M. Kaye
W. Somerset Maugham
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sebastian Barry
Luis Alberto Urrea
J. G. Farrell
Anthony Trollope
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Alan Brennert
Chaim Potok
Elizabeth von Arnim
Edna Ferber
Honoré de Balzac
Emily St. John Mandel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colson Whitehead
The Brontë Sisters
Willa Cather

I. Nominate Patricia Highsmith

I third Elizabeth Gaskell.

I also nominate:

Charles Dickens
G A Henty
H G Wells
Jules Verne
George Bernard Shaw
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Agatha Christie
William Thackeray
Rider Haggard
Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack London
Leo Tolstoy
Victor Hugo
Isaac Asimov
Alexandre Dumas

>11 john257hopper: Great list! I'll second:

George Bernard Shaw
Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson

ill third GBS

I'll second Patricia Highsmith and third Walter Scott.

>5 cindydavid4: I second Emma Donogue

I third Maggie O'Farrell

And counts are in:

January: Elizabeth Gaskell
February: George Bernard Shaw
March: Sir Walter Scott

Maggie O'Farrell gets 1/2 vote for the next nomination period (which will run in February so please plan to stop by and vote again).

Threads will be up later this month. Meanwhile - happy holidays to everyone!

Full counts:
Elizabeth Gaskell - 3
Walter Scott - 3
George Bernard Shaw - 3
Maggie O'Farrell - 3
Patricia Highsmith - 2
Zadie Smith - 2
Emma Donogue - 2
Robert Louis Stevenson - 2
Barbara Pym - 1
Charles Dickens - 1
G A Henty - 1
H G Wells - 1
Jules Verne - 1
Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1
Agatha Christie - 1
William Thackeray - 1
Rider Haggard - 1
Jack London - 1
Leo Tolstoy - 1
Victor Hugo - 1
Isaac Asimov - 1
Alexandre Dumas - 1

Are the threads going up today?

>18 john257hopper: Yep - sorry. December got crazy. :(

>19 AnnieMod: no worries, Annie, thanks for all you do.

January: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356471
February: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356473
March: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356474

Happy new year to everyone!