Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1963

This is really tough. Plath feels slight and Cortazar is an experiment I don't much care for, otherwise I'll stan for everything else I've read

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
The Experience Of Pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazár
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

I'll go for Ice Palace, just over The Wall.

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This feels like a big year. I went with Vonnegut narrowly over LeCarre.

I read the Bell Jar a couple of years ago, I thought it was (amongst other things obv) an indictment of the male medical establishment - leaping to prescribe ect for depression, turning childbirth into a terrifying ordeal. (Hope I'm not speaking out of turn as a man.)

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Is this our first tie? Pynchon and Vonnegut,no less: thee Sick Sixties are rolling, Bob! Tough year indeed.

1961 was a tie. Think I forgot to vote for the bell jar here.

Tons of ties in the early 20th century, mostly because attendance was such that often enough the winner(s) would have two votes.

Thought it weird that Pynchon went underdiscussed itt, always thought of him as an ILB fave.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1964

I ended up voting for V. Cat's Cradle is one of the Vonneguts I haven't read, and I felt like my other options I read too far back in the past, though I was definitely close to putting my vote in for The Bell Jar. Of the ones I have read more recently, well, I had high expectations for Hopscotch, but... let's just say they were not met.