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Old 04-19-2021, 10:38 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Well ... since I seem to have inadvertently sparked something ...

If I were setting up a classics book club (which I'm not), I would start with one of the many online lists of 100 must-read books, eliminate books not in public domain everywhere (so as to avoid anything too modern and/or geographically restricted), gather additional suggestions, then ask people to vote for their top 10 or so choices to winnow the list further and create a slate of books for the year. That way, potential participants would know the schedule up front and could plan accordingly.
Since we’re kicking this around....

I guess what I’d like to see in a classics club would be one where I haven’t read most of the selections already, or at least not in decades. Like Jon, I wouldn’t want an Austen novel, but for the reason that they’re all quite clear in my memory. And I think any Top-100 list will lean heavily on favorites, that is, the ones that people will tend to have read.

With a small group, I would hope it wouldn’t be that hard to settle on what would be only a handful of suggestions in the course of a year, while at the same time allowing for singularities rather than the standards. No reason why any individual couldn’t use such lists as a jumping off point in any case.
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