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Old 03-28-2015, 11:18 AM   #76
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Old 03-28-2015, 11:30 AM   #77
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Good to see something of this nature mentioned (I've not read this particular one, but am familiar with the series and I pretty much love the cozy genre anyway.)
Yes. Jeeves and Wooster may not have the gravitas of some of the books mentioned in this thread, but, in terms of the amount of enjoyment it has brought to people, it deserves a mention I think.

They're all enjoyable, but Carry on Jeeves is my particular favourite.
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Old 03-28-2015, 05:37 PM   #79
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1966 - The Witches of Karres - James H. Schmitz
1951 - The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
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Old 03-29-2015, 01:30 AM   #80
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Old 03-29-2015, 01:54 AM   #81
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1902 - Owen Wister - The Virginian

1916 - Ring Lardner - You Know Me Al

1929-1930 - Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon

1934 - James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Old 03-29-2015, 08:37 AM   #82
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1911-1920: Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
1921-1930: To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
1931-1940: Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1941-1950: Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
1951-1960: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
1961-1970: Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
1971-1980: If on A Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
1981-1990: The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
1991-2000: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
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Old 03-29-2015, 09:44 AM   #83
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Old 03-29-2015, 07:31 PM   #84
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Old 03-31-2015, 02:29 PM   #85
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1900 - 1909 is Where Angels Fear to Tread by E M Forster

1980 - 1989 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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1911-1920 (1915) - The 39 Steps by John Buchan
1921-1930 (1929) - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1931-1940 (1932) - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1941-1950 (1941) - The Stranger by Albert Camus
1951-1960 (1951) - A Question of Upbringing (A Dance To the Music of Time # 1) by Anthony Powell
1961-1970 (1967) - Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1971-1980 (1980) - Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
1981-1990 (1988) - Agent of Change by Sharon Lee
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1991 - 2000 Octavia Butler's Parable series. Does a short series count as one or should I just nominate the first book?
Parable of the Sower (1993)
Parable of the Talents (1998)
I went to check page number thinking it was a novella for the Parable of Sower, and its around 300 to 350 pages depending on an edition. 300 pages is a normal size novel imo, I don't get why you would call it short series. Sure it might not be the size of some bigger sf or epic fantasy books but it ain't a novella either. It's a duology where both books are over 300 pages. Perfectly normal.
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I went to check page number thinking it was a novella for the Parable of Sower, and its around 300 to 350 pages depending on an edition. 300 pages is a normal size novel imo, I don't get why you would call it short series. Sure it might not be the size of some bigger sf or epic fantasy books but it ain't a novella either. It's a duology where both books are over 300 pages. Perfectly normal.
I meant short series as in two books instead of twenty.
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I meant short series as in two books instead of twenty.

Oh I see. I think trilogies are most common in this genre, not 20 series books. So duology isn't that far off.
But anyway the nomination requires you to nominate a book, not a series as far as I understood.
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