Readers' Top 60 Books of the Past 5 years

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March 2016 Short Story Poll

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages, 1937
 
  50 votes, 25.5%

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 121 pages, 1922
 
  28 votes, 14.3%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879
 
  18 votes, 9.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 98 pages, 1941
 
  16 votes, 8.2%

The Bet by Anton Chekhov, 64 pages, 1889
 
  13 votes, 6.6%

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages, 1936
 
  12 votes, 6.1%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903
 
  12 votes, 6.1%

Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916
 
  9 votes, 4.6%

 
  7 votes, 3.6%

 
  6 votes, 3.1%

 
  6 votes, 3.1%

 
  6 votes, 3.1%

 
  4 votes, 2.0%

 
  4 votes, 2.0%

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Approx. 90 pages-Title Story Only, 1960
 
  3 votes, 1.5%

Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Aprrox. 16 pages-Title Story Only, 1973
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

196 total votes

Poll added by: Bob



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Authors:
Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, John Steinbeck, Hermann Hesse, Kate Chopin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Walker, Yasunari Kawabata, Anton Chekhov, Stefan Zweig, James M. Cain, Nikolai Leskov

Books:
Siddhartha Double Indemnity To Build a Fire A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Stories Howl and Other Poems Xingu Of Mice and Men The Last Day of a Condemned Man The Bet and Other Stories House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories A Doll's House Bartleby the Scrivener The Minister's Black Veil Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Chess Story Everyday Use

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message 1: by Pink (new)
Jan 22, 2016 09:52AM

Pink It looks like we have a runway winner for our short story at the moment.


message 2: by Bob (new)
Jan 23, 2016 09:00AM

Bob Mod
Too bad we don’t have a mercy rule, so we can stop this slaughter. Of Mice and Men has stomped the rest of the field. I can hear the rest of the contestants crying ‘Uncle’.


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