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Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1911-1920
This is the second voting thread for choosing MobileRead's ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1911-1920.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN. Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends (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 in the discussion thread associated with this poll.

The nominations and nominators are:
  1. 1911 Ethan Frome by Edith Warton (1862-1937) epub, mobi (frddgls)
  2. 1911 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) epub, mobi (Synamon)
  3. 1912 The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) epub, mobi (Rizla)
  4. 1912 Der Tod in Venedig/Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Gutenberg (German), Amazon UK (sun surfer)
  5. 1913 À la recherche du temps perdu/In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Amazon UK(pynch)
  6. 1913 Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) mobi, Gutenberg (missimpossible)
  7. 1914 Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) Amazon UK (HomeInMyShoes)
  8. 1915 The Metamorphosis/Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka (1883-1924) English at Gutenberg; German epub, mobi(dickloraine)
  9. 1915 The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Brown (1873-1939) epub, mobi (issybird)
  10. 1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1875-1940) epub, mobi (EndlessWaves)
  11. 1915 Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Gutenberg, Amazon UK (spellbanisher)
  12. 1915 The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (1876-1938) Gutenberg (Lynx-lynx)
  13. 1916 The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain (1835-1910) Gutenberg (Ralph Sir Edward)
  14. 1916 Le Feu/Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (1875-1935) epub (French), Gutenberg(BelleZora)
  15. 1916 You Know Me Al( by Ring Lardner (1885-1933) Amazon UK (GA Russell)
  16. 1918 Der Untertan/The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) Gutenberg (German) (knuthmeyer)
  17. 1918 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) Gutenberg, Amazon UK (Hamlet53)
  18. 1920 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Gutenberg, Amazon UK (obs)
  19. 1914 Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Gutenberg(gmw)

All these books in their original language are in the USA public domain. Some translations will still be in copyright. If the author or translator died after 1944, the book is still in copyright in the EU.

Links are given to copies in our library, to the Project Gutenberg copy and/or to the title at Amazon UK, if available.

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