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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Yes I tend to agree with this. Though it's two books intended for children or young adults that I had not read or even heard of that received two of my votes. It's been a long time since I as a child or YA.
I've read the Castle and Candide already, actually multiple times, but I've never read Can Such Things Be? So it gets my final vote as a second. I've read Beloved so don't care to third that. It is a heavy read that I don't believe would be a popular choice.
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I've read all three YA books, with a niece or nephew of the appropriate age (theirs); I have no interest in revisiting them and one of them is terrible. I also have no interest in rereading
Beloved. I think Morrison's Nobel was motivated by considerations other than an abstract assessment of quality, as with most awards.
I've read
Candide but would enjoy reading it again and it's short. Although I've read Kafka's other major works, I must confess to never having read
The Castle, hence my nomination.
ETA: Oops, I didn't realize that
The Earth, etc., is YA. So all four nominated books are YA. I haven't read that one.