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Originally Posted by sun surfer
I agree. As I said before, I'm fine with whatever is decided, but I will put in one more word for keeping a second classic. I think, though perhaps not a majority, that there is enough support for a second classic that it shouldn't change.
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It was dirty tactics for someone to claim a consensus that didn't exist, in favor of eliminating a classic month. It bugs me that it might be successful. I still think that it's important to appeal to the minority element among MR readers, i.e., those who don't like SFF.
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Originally Posted by sun surfer
However, if it is decided that it must, here are my suggestions:
Nobel Author/Pulitzer Novel - The book must be by a Nobel-winning author or be a Pulitzer-winning book (these are the big literature awards and while there are plenty others, many are genre....to make it simple we keep it to the two big awards)
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Can I suggest adding the Man Booker Prize (or just the Booker, for earlier years) to the list? We don't want to be too Yankocentric. But why do I think that literary prize winners won't be very appealing to the non-classic crowd either?
ETA: In looking over the list, there's six months devoted to lighter fiction: mystery, horror, thriller, SFF, romance. Plus wild card months that can easily end up in that category. And then there's humor, and last time that was a SF option. Can we keep the remaining months to serious fiction/nonfiction? That is, if we lose a classic month, make sure to replace it with something as difficult and dreary?
