The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #31

   

"Words and Peace" is a blog I've been following for a couple of years and I have always found some interesting new (or olde) books there, especially French ones.

On her page, I found the posts by "The Classics Club" asking us to create a post, this time before next Sunday 18^th September 2022, and list our choice of any twenty books that remain "to be read" on our Classics Club list. They'll then post a number from 1 through 20 and we have time until Sunday 30^th of October 2022 to read it.

In the meantime, I read three more books from my old list (Classics Spin #30) which I usually replace by some new ones. Since I want to finish my oldest classic novels first (as published in my Classics Club list) before buying new ones, I simply added those that are still on that list at the end of the list (only three left). They are all in chronological order.

1.    Voltaire "Candide, ou l'Optimisme" (Candide, or Optimism) - 1759
2.    Brontë, Charlotte "Shirley" - 1849
3.    Keller, Gottfried "Novellen" (Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe u.a.) "Novellas" (A Village Romeo and Juliet and others) - 1855/56
4.    Brontë, Charlotte "The Professor" - 1857
5.    Hamilton, Cicely "William - an Englishman" - 1920
6.    Mandelstam, Ossip "The Din of Time" (Шум времени/Shum vremeni) - 1925
7.    Hesse, Hermann "Wir nehmen die Welt nur zu ernst" [We just take the world too seriously] - 1928
8.    Faulkner, William "The Sound and the Fury" - 1929
9.    Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" - 1929
10.  Kästner, Erich "Emil und die Detektive" (Emil and the Detectives) - 1929
11.  Meigs, Cornelia "Invincible Louisa" - 1933
12.  Orwell, George "Down and Out in Paris and London: A Gritty Memoir on Life & Poverty in Two Cities" - 1933
13.  Canetti, Elias "Die Blendung" (Auto-da-Fé) - 1935
14.  Orwell, George "The Road to Wigan Pier" - 1937
15.   Zweig, Stefan "Schachnovelle" (The Royal Game/Chess) - 1942
16.   Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (Zuqaq El Midaq/زقاق المدق) - 1947
17.   Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός/O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951
18.   Keller, Gottfried "Novellen" (Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe u.a.) "Novellas" (A Village Romeo and Juliet and others) - 1855/56
19.   Mandelstam, Ossip "The Din of Time" (Шум времени/Shum vremeni) - 1925
20.   Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός/O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951

If you want to take up the challenge, here is the post: The Classics Spin #31 

This time, it's #2, so my novel is:
Brontë, Charlotte "Shirley" - 1849

Here are all the books on my original Classics Club list.
And here is a list of all the books I read with the Classics Spin.