"Words and Peace" is a blog I've been following for a couple of years and I have always found some interesting new (or old) 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 8th February 2026, 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 29th March 2026 to read it.
This time, I read two books from my old list (Classics Spin #42) (The Sound and the Fury" and "Urfaust. Faust Fragment. Faust I. Faust II"). I do want to concentrate on a couple of books in the near future, so I have listed only ten books and repeated them. The books are all in chronological order.
- Dumas, Alexandre fils "Camille: The Lady of the Camellias" (La Dame aux Camélias) - 1848
- Turgenev, Ivan "Fathers and Sons" (Отцы и дети/Otzy i deti) - 1862
- Conrad, Joseph "Victory: An Island Tale" - 1915
- Hamilton, Cicely "William - an Englishman" - 1920
- Hesse, Hermann "Wir nehmen die Welt nur zu ernst" [We just take the world too seriously] - 1928
- Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" - 1929
- Meigs, Cornelia "Invincible Louisa" - 1933
- Krleža, Miroslav "On the Edge of Reason" (Na rubu pameti) - 1938
- Cela, Camilo José "The Hive" (La colmina) - 1951
- Plaidy, Jean "The Sixth Wife: The Story of Katharine Parr" - 1953
- Dumas, Alexandre fils "Camille: The Lady of the Camellias" (La Dame aux Camélias) - 1848
- Turgenev, Ivan "Fathers and Sons" (Отцы и дети/Otzy i deti) - 1862
- Conrad, Joseph "Victory: An Island Tale" - 1915
- Hamilton, Cicely "William - an Englishman" - 1920
- Hesse, Hermann "Wir nehmen die Welt nur zu ernst" [We just take the world too seriously] - 1928
- Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" - 1929
- Meigs, Cornelia "Invincible Louisa" - 1933
- Krleža, Miroslav "On the Edge of Reason" (Na rubu pameti) - 1938
- Cela, Camilo José "The Hive" (La colmina) - 1951
- Plaidy, Jean "The Sixth Wife: The Story of Katharine Parr" - 1953
This is a great idea for all of us who want to read more classics. Go ahead, get your own list. I can't wait to see what I get to read this time.
This time, we received #2:
Turgenev, Ivan "Fathers and Sons" (Отцы и дети/Otzy i deti) - 1862
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.
I admire that you read William Faulkner, Marianne. I read one of his novels for an English Lit course in college and didn't enjoy the book at all.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lisa. I read Light in August by him and really loved that. But I doubt I will ever read anything else by him, as most of his novels seem to be like this one. Somebody mentioned, only Southerners might appreciate his writings. He's probably right.
DeleteThe only one I've read is Farewell to Arms. It was very good.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joseph. I've read a few books by Hemingway and really loved them, so I'm sure this one will be good, as well.
DeleteI just made my list for the spin and can't wait to see what I get. The only one I have that is also on your list is Farewell to Arms. Will get that posted tomorrow. Great list of books you have. I enjoy seeing what others have on their lists as it gives me ideas,
ReplyDeleteSorry, Tina. Didn't see your post there the other day, my PC is making trouble. I'm looking forward to your list and to see what we are getting.
DeleteI am going to read Agnes Get by Ann Bronte!
DeleteGreat, Tina. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
DeleteAnd when you're done, you can tell me how you liked it here:
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/bronte-anne-agnes-grey.html
A fascinating list as always :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brona.
DeleteI've not read anything on your list. I hope whatever comes up, you enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteHa yes, neither have I, Kelly. I should like it this month since I wasn't too happy with last month's read. I know it doesn't work that way but let's stay positive. ;)
ReplyDeleteI may have read the Jean Plaidy book as I read loads when I was younger, but haven't read any of the other books. I hope you'll enjoy Fathers and Sons!
ReplyDeleteMargaret @ BooksPlease - https://booksplease.org/
Thanks, Margaret. I have already started and if I would just read one book at the time, I would certainly would have finished it already. Very interesting.
DeleteThe Jean Plaidy book was bought by mistake, I wanted the last book by Alison Wear on King Henry's wives but ordered this instead. Stilll, it's going to be interesting to read another view on her.
So glad you got a Russian classic! I still need to read this one.
ReplyDeleteI have only read 1 and 6 here
As I just said on another post, Emma, two is a good result. And if you consider that I listed all of them twice, that makes four already. ;)
DeleteI am happy to read another Russian book. The beginning is already great. I might have read it in one day, if I read just one book at a time.