Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1965

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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).