Vote for The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction!

Eleven days left to vote.

Who will you be voting for, tsarstepan, and for what reasons?

The only one of those I've read is the Cheever book, and that some decades ago.

Having read book reviews doesn't qualify me..

I voted for the Flannery O'Conner by default. I'm afraid its the only one I've read and even at that I read only a couple of stories.

Seems that one would have needed to read an awful lot of books to vote in this award!

Awful lot of books - I may have missed that, I just saw something like six. Am I wrong? I can take the news about being wrong..

The judges whittled it all down to six books. So your first impression was tres correct! The public gets to vote for the six books listed.

I've read four of them - I haven't read the Pynchon or Faulkner - I can't read Faulkner, although I know other people who love him - he's too wordy for me - I have to read and reread his sentences and although I think his themes sound interesting and his settings are exactly my cup of tea - I've never made it through a piece of his. Pynchon is someone I've never explored.

So when you posted this a few weeks ago - I was delighted to see Flannery O'Connor and Ralph Ellison - two of my favorites - but then I hit a stalemate and couldn't vote until I reread Invisible Man - which I have and now I'm ready to vote - for Flannery O'Connor.
Invisible man is important but I think Flannery O'Connor is innovative in a way no one else is with themes that are universal.

so yeah - my vote goes to Flannery O'Connor

Faulkner, I could not push past the first paragraph. Well, that was a voluntary book, not some bit from a class.
But, in any case, not his compiled stories, which I haven't read and might like to.