Today's poll results!

In case you were curious about the results of today's poll of your favorite books, here're the top five in the three important categories:

Favorite texts:

1. Coetzee (8 votes)
   
2. Morrison (7)
3. Baker (6)
4. Hemingway (5)
5. Eliot (3)

Total appearances in the top 3:

1. Coetzee (19 total votes)
2. Baker (14)
3. Morrison (13)
   
4. Hemingway (12)
5. Hacker (11)

Least favorite texts:

1. Woolf (11 votes)
2. Boland (9)
3. Eliot (8)
4. Baker (7)
5. Heaney and Hacker (6)

There's a lot to say about this distribution of numbers, but what I'm most excited by is how well-liked were two of the most emotionally painful books -- Disgrace and Beloved. Indeed, many of you specifically commented that not enough time was spent on Beloved, and clearly from your responses the lectures on Beloved were some of the favorite of the semester.