Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1965

The couple of these I've read could not be described as favorites of mine by any stretch. Abstain. Again.

I think I'm voting the same as Joe Stork, for the same reasons; I haven't read Stoner, love the Martin Beck books but can't stand Roseanna. Three Stigmata isn't my favorite Philip K. Dick but I remember really loving the opening chapter so I may as well vote for it.

Unless I'm getting it confused with a different Philip K. Dick novel which is entirely possible.

I read The Animal Family years ago, after reading Randall Jarrell's essay on Kipling, and it filled me with the kind of vicarious embarrassment you get when a writer reveals more of themselves than they meant to - what Kipling calls "bleeding on the work."

Garden, Ashes is a gem, have read it several times since finding it the well stocked for distraction college bookstore. Also love Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, The Painted Bird, and Stoner. Really like Pictures from an Institution, will have to give The Animal Family a go.

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Three Stigmata is a v.good book, but I'm voting Perec. Wish I hadn't lent my copy to a friend, as I'd really like to re-read it now!

Dune might actually be the 'correct' choice, though

Is dune more admirable than enjoyable though?

It's a very fun read, plenty pop smarts.

I read Dune in high school, fifty years ago. In fifty years I've never had any inclination to go back and reread it. I recall it as sufficiently entertaining in a wtf way.

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SF tie! I'm glad I went with my gut and voted for Dune. So many weird ideas went into building that universe, but it never seems like just a bunch of weird ideas. In some ways it set the standard for me for how a book can let us step briefly into another world.

Perec is a lot of fun in what I've read of him anyway. need to get a copy of Life A Users Manual since I last read it about 35 years ago.
But not read this one.

Trying to think what the Violet Leduc i read was which again was like 30 odd years ago.

Wole Soyinka has a nice turn of phrase in his plays so I think I need to read some of his prose.

would like to read more Raymond Queneau.
Have wanted to read Le Chiendent since it turned up in Rowland S Howard's Guide to teh artist as a consumer. Tried reading it in the mid 80s but had other things going on. So think that was as teh Bark Tree and it snow around as Witch Grass.
Also really want to read the academic text on Queneau's books on the Easter Rising which was done bu an NUIG staffer and released before the pandemic but because it was an academic text it was also like really expensive. Sounded fascinating though.
Now got to read the books themselves too.

Did read a couple of Dune way back too, think I meant to read more but then didn't. Think I grabbed some of my uncle's copies when he died.

Upon reflection, tendency is to vote for (one of) the perceived ILB favorite(s).