Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1951

"what was that you said about not getting to vote for Durrenmatt again, xyzz?"

what I meant was that The Judge is probably the best of his novellas and I probably wouldn't vote for anything else.

This is what I have read:

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Forbbiden Colours by Yukio Mishima
The Conformist by Alberto Moravia
The Master Of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Memoirs Of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

I want to go for one of the Becketts but I will get to vote for one of the later ones (I love Mercier and Camier a lot), so its between Yourcenar and Moravia and I am going for Hadrian, its a very good historical recreation.

I will read Catcher in the Rye one day, if only to satisfy my curiosity.

(I love Mercier and Camier a lot),amen

We should've probably included it in the 1946 poll but I suppose it's too late now.

It was published in the 70s so was thinking it could be included then

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I didn’t vote for The End of the Affair despite what I said about it itt but I’m pleased two of you did.

Of the zero votes, Forbidden Colours is a very well-written novel where it's hard to tell to what extent it is an exploration of a misogynist and/or by a misogynist.
Malone Dies is not much weaker than Molloy but I guess it suffers from middle-of-the-trilogy neglect, like Three Colours: White.

Right, I thought that was late for L Frank Baum if he had started in teh previous century. So good to hear I had my timeline about right if he died in 191.
THought that was odd. THough of course there are always unpublished works released way posthumously.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1952

foundation has a neat idea but it's horribly written and doesn't even do justice to the idea