G.K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday
R. Ellison, Invisible Man
R. Mathiessen, The snow leopard
A. Munro, Open Secrets
A. Munro, Open Secrets
J. Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Disastrously, I've not updated this for weeks. Doubtless, everyone is on tenterhooks. I feel they may be disappointed. There are certainly few surprises in the selection - broadly, if you win the Nobel in English and aren't Pinter I'm going to aim to read you - soon. In this case, it was even easier as Anna already had these two Munros. And they were great, for the reasons the Nobel committee gave (bizarrely hard to find on their site, summarised externally). I'd also add what Jonathan Franzen wrote in my introduction to Runaway which is also her surprises - just as you think you've reached the point of a story, the perspective shifts. It's brilliant stuff. To be honest, which one was BOTM is a bit arbitrary, and the winner may have shaded it simply on the fact I read it first. It's clearly a canon I'm going to have read more of. Everyone should.
