The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Usual rules - list your books in order of preference best first, or use numbers to predict where they will finish 1 comment per person, use edit comment to update your lists.
These are the longlisted books (at least one of these is the wrong edition)

Boulder by Eva Baltasar translated by Julia Sanches (And Other Stories), Caralan/Spain
Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan translated by Chi-Young Kim (Europa Editions), Korean/South Korea
The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé translated by Richard Philcox (World Editions), French./Guadaloupe
Standing Heavy by GauZ' translated by Frank Wynne (Quercus Publishing), French/Cote d'Ivoire
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov translated by Angela Rodel (Orion Publishing), Bulgarian/Bulgaria
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth translated by Charlotte Barslund (Verso Books), Norwegian/Norway
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov translated by Rueben Woolley (MacLehose Press), Ukrainian/Ukraine
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier translated by Daniel Levin Becker (Fitzcarraldo Editions), French/France
While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer translated by Katy Derbyshire (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Germany/German
Pyre by Perumal Murugan translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Pushkin Press), Tamil/Indian
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel translated by Rosalind Harvey (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Spanish/Mexico
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson translated by Nichola Smalley (Scribe UK), Sweden/Swedish
Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi translated by Jeremy Tiang (Honford Star), China/Chinese

LEAGUE TABLES

My adjusted weightings method:

Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places, STD
1, Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, 2.40, 2.04, 15, 7, 1.18
2, Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth, 2.40, 2.70, 10, 3, 1.23
3, Boulder by Eva Baltasar, 3.50, 3.81, 16, 2, 1.78
4, Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, 4.23, 3.90, 13, 2, 1.70
5, Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, 3.50, 4.07, 6, 1, 1.20
6, While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer, 4.50, 5.21, 4, 0, 1.29
7, The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, 5.00, 6.29, 12, 3, 2.64
8, Pyre by Perumal Murugan, 6.62, 7.37, 13, 0, 2.69
9, Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi, 7.20, 7.40, 10, 0, 2.39
10, Standing Heavy by GauZ', 7.00, 7.62, 8, 0, 2.14
11, The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé, 7.88, 8.27, 8, 0, 2.30
12, A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, 9.50, 9.17, 6, 0, 2.31
13, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov, 8.50, 9.30, 4, 0, 1.86

Paul-style aggregate of comparisons

Pos, Book, Average, Relative ranking, Count, First Places
1, Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, 2.40, 53, 15, 7
2, Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth, 2.40, 45, 10, 3
3, Boulder by Eva Baltasar, 3.50, 34, 16, 2
4, Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, 4.23, 23, 13, 2
5, Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, 3.50, 16, 6, 1
6, While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer, 4.50, 7, 4, 0
7, The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, 5.00, -8, 12, 3
8, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov, 8.50, -22, 4, 0
9, Standing Heavy by GauZ', 7.00, -26, 8, 0
10, Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi, 7.20, -28, 10, 0
11, The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé, 7.88, -29, 8, 0
12, Pyre by Perumal Murugan, 6.62, -30, 13, 0
13, A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, 9.50, -35, 6, 0

1 Still Born
2 Is Mother Dead
3 Time Shelter
4 Boulder
8 Pyre

1. Is Mother Dead
2. Whale
3. Boulder
4. Time Shelter
5. The Ninth Building
6. While We Were Dreaming
7. The Gospel According to the New World
8. Still Born
9. Standing Heavy
10. Pyre
11. Jimi Hendrik Live in Lviv
12. The Birthday Party
13. A System So Magnificent

1. Is Mother Dead
2. Still Born
3. Time Shelter
4. Boulder
5. The Birthday Party
6. The Gospel According to the New World
7. Standing Heavy
8. Pyre

6. Boulder
7. Is Mother Dead
8. Still Born
9. Ninth Building
10. The Gospel According to the New World
11. Pyre
12. Time Shelter
13. A System So Magnificent (I don't intend to read it though)

Longlist:

1. Boulder
2. While We Were Dreaming
3. Pyre
4. The Gospel According to the New World
5. Still Born
6. Is Mother Dead
7. Ninth Building
8. A System So Magnificent

1. The Birthday Party
2. Still born
3. While We Were Dreaming
4. Is mother dead
5. Boulder
6. Time Shelter
7. Pyre
8. Whale
9. A System So Magnificent
10. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
11. Standing Heavy
12. The Gospel According to the New World
13. Ninth Building

1. Still Born
2. Boulder
3. Ninth Building
4. Whale
5. The Birthday party

1. Still Born
2. Boulder
3. The Birthday Party

6. Ninth Building

1. Still Born
2. Is mother dead
3. Boulder
4. Time Shelter
5. The Gospel According to the New World
6. The Birthday Party

1. Still Born

4. Birthday Party
5. Pyre

9. Time Shelter

1. Time Shelter
2. Pyre

2. Time Shelter


9. Boulder

1. Boulder
2. Still Born
3.
4.
5. Time Shelter
6. Pyre
7. Standing Heavy
8. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (still reading)
9. Ninth Building (DNF)

1. Still Born
2.Is Mother Dead
3, Whale
4. Boulder
5. Pyre
6. The Birthday Party
7. While We were Dreaming

1. Whale
2. Is Mother Dead
3. Boulder

Time Shelter - 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Still Born -3.5 *
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Standing Heavy – 3*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pyre – 2.5*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv – 2*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

1. The Birthday Party

3. Time Shelter
4. Boulder
5. Ninth Building
6. A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding

8. Standing Heavy
9. The Gospel According to the New World

12. Pyre

1. Still Born
2. Boulder
3. A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding
4. Standing Heavy
5. The Birthday Party

1. Is Mother Dead
2. Time Shelter
3. Whale
4. Still Born
5. Pyre
6. Standing Heavy
7. Boulder
8.
9. Ninth Building
10. Gospel According to the New World
11. The Birthday Party
12.
13. A System So Magnificent…