Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2008

3BP

I've read six - Home, Olive Kitteridge, Visitation, Matter, Anathem, The Three Body Problem. No regrets about any of them though I do prefer Gilead's open hearted protagonist to Home's over anxious and somewhat less generous Glory. Olive Kitteridge is abother not so sympathetic character but I warmed to her contradictions and moments of self awareness. I'm voting for Visitation which is monumental, and devastating where it touches on the holocaust. Anathem is my favourite Stephenson, love the idea of the monasteries only open once every year, decade, century, or millennium. Matter is one of the more fun Culture novels and The Three Body Problem is bonkers but memorable.

Oh, Visitation has a thread: 'may and must, and may, and must, and may, and must': a thread for jenny erpenbeck's novel 'visitation'

2x 3bp novels in the list, neither of them short (i'm guessing this was the translation into english rather than initial publication).

just those two and Matter for me (and House Of Suns, not listed). can't choose between them.

I think this would be a write-in for Joseph O'Neill's Netherland for me.

Only because I don't think I've ready anything else on this list.

Home's Glory is youngest daughter/sister, back to take care of their father and for private reasons, then lifelong outlier prodigal brother finally returns, she's cooped up in old weird family home w them, no room for laidback Rev. John reveries, though she has her own at the end---think it works on its own terms, like the others in this cycle. But it's also the only one in this poll that I've read, as usual; otherwise, I might vote for something else.

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

Least popular year since 2003 which also had 13 votes.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2009

Only top tie so far!?

Oh no, theer were tons of those in the early 20th century polls.