I’m assuming that is what people have been using other for and that is confusing. Maybe a “not read” option?

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yeah ‘not heard of/not read’ would be good cos so far i have nothing to click

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and i LOVE clicking

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That’s the best part about these lists really, committee led recommendations.

If people that like these writers could also mention similar things that would help poor saps such as I who read maybe one book a year, although I suppose I could just use a google machine.

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My list avec spoilers:

Gah

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this is a work of art

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I’m too thick.

oh fuck i think i forgot Vonnegut

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Thanks, but I am a moron.

Yeah, would be good to hear from people who voted for authors about what they like about them and etc.

Kram’s list:

Haruki Murakami 20
Tove Jansson 19
Iain Banks 18
Margaret Atwood 17
Karl Ove Knausgaard 16
JD Salinger 15
Roald Dahl 14
Kurt Vonnegut 13
Magnus Mills 12
Robin Jarvis 11
Shirley Jackson 10
Claire Keegan 9
Ali Smith 8
Thomas Hardy 7
Elena Ferante 6
JL Carr 5
Elizabeth Strout 4
Terry Pratchett 3
Graham Greene 2
Paul Auster 1

:smiley:

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:blush: cheers. I thought I could do technology!

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a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie

hmm interesting

He also wrote a book called When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow, which is about Richard Dawkins trying to get to a small village in order to give a talk at a WI meeting. With hilarious consequences.

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:grimacing:

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No. 95

George Saunders

  • Lincoln in the Bardo
  • CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
  • Pastoralia
  • In Persuasion Nation
  • Tenth of December
  • Other
  • DKWYA,P

0 voters

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aww hoped he’d be higher. what a guy.

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I‘m feeling more optimistic about my list full of foreigners and feminists now! Obviously being completely unknown is no hindrance.

No. 94

Edgar Allen Poe

  • The Raven
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Fall of the House of usher
  • The Black Cat
  • Annabel lee
  • Other
  • DKWYA,P

0 voters

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Fucking hell these results coupled with my own list make me look like a right fucking dunce. Gonna bow out now I think.