Much as I love both Kafka and Gorki, and despite how interesting I think a discussion of The Trial might be, I decided to cast votes only for authors that I have never read. (Chess Story by Zweig was the April 2013 selection).

I enjoyed going through the list of authors on this web site that was provided by Billi and trying to guess just what about them made the Nazis want to ban them, to burn their books. Some seem obvious—Kafka was Jewish and if not a book like The Trial would probably have been enough—but others seem a little puzzling. One nice thing about the Internet, and ebooks I suppose, is that any government preventing access to books has likely become impossible.