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Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1901-1910
The first voting thread for choosing the ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1901-1910.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN. Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends on 15th June 2015(so that no-one is influenced by previously recorded votes), and voting will be anonymous.

You are, of course, welcome to make your choice known during in the discussion thread associated with this poll.

The nominations and nominators are:
  1. 1901 Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), epub, mobi (pdurrant)
  2. 1901 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Gutenberg US (German), English eboook links (knuthmeyer)
  3. 1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), epub, mobi (frddgls)
  4. 1902 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1843-1916), epub, mobi (sun surfer)
  5. 1902 The Virginian by Owen Wister (1860-1938), epub, mobi (GA Russell)
  6. 1903 The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1876-1916), epub, mobi (Synamon)
  7. 1903 The Riddle of the Sands by Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922), epub, mobi (bfisher)
  8. 1903 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1959-1932), Gutenberg (gmw)
  9. 1904 The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1843-1916), epub, mobi (issybird)
  10. 1904 Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Gutenberg (everlod)
  11. 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), Gutenberg US, No authorised ebook (obs20)
  12. 1906 The Psammead Trilogy by Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), epub, mobi, Gutenberg, Gutenberg (EndlessWaves)
  13. 1906 The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain (1835-1910), Gutenberg, Gutenberg (spellbanisher)
  14. 1907 Before Adam by Jack London (1876-1916), epub, mobi (Ralph Sir Edward)
  15. 1908 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), epub, mobi (BearMountainBooks)
  16. 1910 The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946),Gutenberg US, Amazon UK, AU PD (Lynx-lynx)
  17. 1910 Where Angels Fear to Tread by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), Gutenberg US, No authorised ebook (ccowie)
  18. 1910 Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), Gutenberg US, Amazon UK (missimpossible)

All these books are in the USA public domain. For books in the European public domain, links are given to copies in our library, or elsewhere. Otherwise a link is given to the Project Gutenberg copy and to the title at Amazon UK.

Ideally, nominators should now post about their nominated book, and everyone is welcome to discuss the relative merits of the nominations
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