Vote for Bill Nighy’s next silksounding book!

7 August 2007

Bill Nighy and Edgar Allan Poe
Bill Nighy and Edgar Allan Poe

The suggested book titles for Bill to read have been collected, and here is the result list. Now it is time to cast your vote on the book you want Bill Nighy to read next for Silksoundbooks. The people at Silksoundbooks will then go and do their very best to persuade Bill to read the most popular book.

Remember: the more votes we get, the bigger the chance the book will be considered, so please spread the word and tell people to vote!

The last day to vote is to be announced (somewhere in September). (In order to keep it a fair poll, each vote will be logged which should prevent cheating).

A big thank you to everybody who has send in book suggestions, the winner of the free new Bill Nighy silksounding book will be announced soon.

UPDATE 22 August 2007: Both Wuthering Heights and Alices adventures in Wonderland have now been scheduled to be read by other actors, so please don’t vote for those two books anymore.
UPDATE 29 August 2007: Update from Silksoundbooks (who are keeping an eye on the poll): Bill is considering Dracula but would also like to consider a humorous character.
UPDATE 26 October 2007: The poll has been closed, the book will be announced tomorrow!

What would you like Bill Nighy to read next?

  • Dracula - Bram Stoker (25%, 41 Votes)
  • The Canterville ghost - Oscar Wilde (7%, 11 Votes)
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (7%, 11 Votes)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (6%, 10 Votes)
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (6%, 9 Votes)
  • The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting (6%, 9 Votes)
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (5%, 8 Votes)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (4%, 7 Votes)
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Cillin (4%, 7 Votes)
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (4%, 7 Votes)
  • The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe (4%, 6 Votes)
  • The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens (3%, 5 Votes)
  • A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett (3%, 5 Votes)
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2%, 3 Votes)
  • The metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (2%, 3 Votes)
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Tom Jones - Henry Fielding (1%, 2 Votes)
  • The Castle - Franz Kafka (1%, 2 Votes)
  • The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain (1%, 2 Votes)
  • Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (1%, 1 Votes)
  • The Trail - Franz Kafka (1%, 1 Votes)
  • The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson (1%, 1 Votes)
  • The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Dr. Heideggers Experiment - Nathaniel Hawthorne (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 162

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