Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

I did a survey of the shelves to get a starting baseline.

From the "Read" shelf: 49 (I just joined the group!)
From the "Currently Reading" shelf: 4

Shelf #1 (France): 3
Shelf #2a (England/UK): 24
Shelf #2b (Ireland): 2
Shelf #2c (Scotland): 3
Shelf #2d (Wales): 1
Shelf #3 (US): 23
Shelf #4a2 (Spain): 1
Shelf #5 (Russia): 1
Shelf #7d (Germany): 2
Shelf #7f (Switzerland): 1
Shelf #8e (Norway): 1
Shelf b1 (Canada): 1
Shelf e1 (Ancient Greek): 1
Shelf e2 (Ancient Roman): 1

Total read: 65
from 14 Countries/shelves

14 Countries! Congratulations.

Updated mine.
I have read only 3 so far.
Mostly have read UK reads with new authors Pym and Taylor and American with Roald Dahl.

I am hoping to complete a Thomas Mann which would give me another German Author for this year.

Have you updated your comment for Around the World?

In 2023, I've read books translated from these languages to English:

German - 4
French - 8
Swedish - 3
Spanish - 2
Hungarian - 1
Norwegian - 1
Japanese - 1

7 Countries! Wow!

Kathy, Looks like you got stuck in France for a while :)

Not a bad place to be stuck!

I'd love to be stuck in France!

A look at the inscrutable East suggests itself! May I offer the following?
Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke (Pakistan)
Timothy Mo - An Insular Possession (Anglo-China)
Shusaku Endo - Silence (Japan)
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (India)

Mbuye wrote: "A look at the inscrutable East suggests itself! May I offer the following? ..."

Some nice suggestions!
I am sure Rafael will get these added in for us. Thank you!

Rafael wrote: "How are you, NTLTRC members?

WOW! such interesting questions! First at all, I've already visited the Group Shelves' and I find them very usefull, specially to find new authors.

And now, I'll try to answer all those, but it will take me several days LOL

(By the way, I have a question too: how can I mark a book that I've read?

1 - How many books from the ones in the read shelf have you read? Why so few?

116 (and some of them are in my future readings). Of course, I've read them throughout my life, not in last year LOL

2 - Do you know french literature? Oui or non? What books from our french shelf (#1) have you read? What do you have learned about France and the french culture from these books?

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3 - You decided to cross the English Channel, imitating William, and land on the British Isles. How many books from the british shelf (#2) have you read?
4 - Now you have crossed the sea and landed in the other side of the Atlantic Sea, United States. How many books from the american shelf (#3) have you read? If you are born outside US, what do you have learned about US from the books?
5 - Now you have traveled through the Rio Grande following south. Which classics from the Latin America, and the Iberian countries Portugal and Spain that colonized the most of them, (shelf #4) have you read? Which one was the most remarkable?
6 - You decide go back to US, to north reaching Alaska, former russian piece of land, there you decide to cross the Bering Sea to visit the mainland Russia, there you decide to read the local classics. How many books from Russia (shelf#5) have you read?
7 - Now you are eager of an warmer weather, no more russian winter, as Napoleon would say, you want the Mediterranean Sea and you reach the Italy. How many italian classics (shelf #6) have you read?
8 - Do you want to explore the Europe and decide to visit the place in Europe where the first book was printed and go north to Germany. How many germanic classics (shelf #7: austrian, belgian, dutch, german and swiss) have you read?
9 - Now you miss the cold, but you are enjoying the sound of germanic languages, so you want to visit the Nordic countries. First go through Denmark, then reach the Norway, then Sweden and seize the opportunity to visit an Scandinavian country with no germanic roots, Finland. How many books from the scandinavian countries (do not forget Iceland) have you read (shelf #8)?
10 - You notice that you visited Russia but forgot to visit the countries from the former URSS and the ones from the Eastern Europe so you go south and visit Poland, Hungary and so on. How many books from the shelf #9 have you read?
11 - Now you visit all Europe but decide to know the world outside Europe and America so you go where the sun rises and reach Japan. Then cross the sea to reach the Middle Kingdom and visit China, then go west to visit the future most populated country in the world, India, and so on. How many books from the "shelf a" (asian classics) have you read?
12 - You have had so much to do that you remembered that you have crossed one country to go from US to US, how this is possible? Well, if you go from US to Alaska you have to cross Canada. There you enjoyed the politeness from the people, there you felt like you was in home. How many classics from canadian (shelf b1) and grrenlandic (b2) authors have you read?
13 - You decide to stop to daydream and want to visit the older Old World, where the human being emerged, Africa. From India you go through Middle East, crossing Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Turkey. How many classics from Middle and Near East (shelf f) have you read?
14 - From Turkey you cross the sea and reach Egypt and go east and then south so visiting the whole continent. How many african classics (shelf c) have you read?
14 - Now only left one piece of land to visit, the Oceania. Continent with uncountable islands, the biggest one is, actually, the biggest one in the world. How many australian, kiwi and so on classics have you read from the shelf d?
15 - There's some countries in Europe that you forget to visit, shelf g. How many classics from the Basque Country, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Monaco have you read?
16 - It's time to go back home. Your journey reached the end.

2025 Around the shelves in 80 books

Have you updated your comment and reached a higher goal?
I know I have not. One of my goals for this coming year is to increase my bookshelf with more new Countries and Authors!!

Lets see how we are doing!!