Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of… the 1870's, pt.2 (1874-1879)

i voted for the hector malot... i've read only 5 of the books on this list (the europeans, anna karenina, michel strogoff, tom sawyer and the hector malot) and as much as i enjoyed all of them and willingly admit the others might be better novels, alone in the world really made an impression on me when i was a kid. i just couldn't stop, reading it everywhere including at the breakfast table during family holidays, where i tried to hide my sobs at poor rémi's adventures. almost 30 years later it's still a running joke with my parents, couldn't not vote for it

even now just thinking about what happens to all the animals and good old vitalis brings a tear to my eye tbh

Cool, Jibe. I asked because I'd hardly heard of the name, finding out about new authors part of the fun of this.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of… the 1880's, pt.1 (1880-1884)

i was surprised to see it included tbh, even though it's a classic in france and most kids called rémi have been called rémi sans famille or rémi sans ami because of it i'd wager. i have to say i'm really enjoying those polls and your selections, even though i've never read more than 5 or 6 in each of them, so thanks. how do you go about selecting the lesser known ones like sans famille? you might have already explained this in a previous poll

I use the wikipedia lists of novels by year/decade, which I think does give these some idiosincracies - Brazil seems very good at documenting its output on English language wikipedia, for example. If I stumble upon something that's outside of the USA/UK/France/Russia circuit I'm more likely to include it, ditto female authors. I think in this case in particular I just figured that judging by the wikipedia entry it must be quite famous and that my ignorance of it was my own failing.