Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

For paperbacks, personally I prefer Penguin classics. I've got a nice little collection of them ☺️

I also have quite a good collection of Barnes & Nobles leatherbound classics - even though I cannot buy from them as they will not ship to the EU. I buy them from ebay sellers and Amazon. I bought my first one at Waterstones in town.

My favourite Russian translators are Pevear & Volokhonsky.

PS I like bookcovers too but my eyesight is not the best and cannot tell what you're showing us so would love it if you could write the title and then show the bookcover if you have time ❤️

Here's a repost of my book covers with titles next to them so Jazzy can see them. I love book covers.

Oh no! ;D I have two different publishers for my Jansson winter and summer books
The Summer Book
A Winter Book

I like the NYRB editions also. Here are my copies of translated books:
The Summer Book
Tristana
The Black Spider
Skylark
The Gray Notebook

I also have Stoner and might buy Augustusand Butcher's Crossing like Brian did.

Kathy I have that edition of Butcher's Crossing too!

We'll have to read Butcher's Crossing or another book by John Williams in this group sometime, Lesle.

Thank you Kathy!

I love Bookcovers too :)

Another group I'm in did Stoner this year.

I loved Stoner. I read it with my in-person book club a couple years ago.

I love World Literature and want to read more rare and hard to find books. I am partial to Chekhov, Hugo, Tolstoy, Laxness, Pontoppidan, etc. so any suggestions would be welcome. I am reading my way through the Nobel Laureates, but there must be so much undiscovered wealth out there!

Kathy wrote: "We'll have to read Butcher's Crossing or another book by John Williams in this group sometime, Lesle."

I agree!

In a few days, I plan to start Journey by Moonlight. It seems to have its fans. After reading Miklós Bánffy earlier and then this Antal Szerb novel and later Dezső Kosztolányi's Skylark I'll have covered some great Hungarian classic authors.
One still left to read is Magda Szabó who I have heard good things about. She has some well-thought-of books like The Door which don't fit our classic definition but others that do. I'd probably lean to reading Abigail from 1970 sometime next year.

I'll be reading Journey by Moonlight a bit later in the month.