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Subject: Ready for 2022 Classics Challenge - List your choices here
Date Posted: 1/4/2022 3:08 PM ET
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1.  Night Boat to Tangier: A Novel by Kevin Barry, 1/12/2022, from the Classics Reading shelf, 3.5 stars

2.   Herself Surprised (New York Review Books Classics) by Joyce Cary, 1/22/2022, 3.5 stars

3.   Emma by Jane Austen

4.   The American by Henry James (no ISBN), 3.10/2022, 4 stars

5.   Amerika by Franz Kafka, 7/11/2022, 4 stars

6.   The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (George Smiley, Bk 3) by John le Carre, 10/2/2022, 4 stars

7.   A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway, 10/12/2022, 3 stars

8.  The Ambassadors : Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Henry JamesHarry Levin, in process

9.   The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Sparks,10/21/2022, 3 stars



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Date Posted: 1/18/2022 2:06 AM ET
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I only managed TWO last year. Do you think I could do more? What would be good? Ivanhoe?

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Date Posted: 2/11/2022 7:12 PM ET
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Ivanhoe  Of course!

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Date Posted: 1/2/2023 9:01 PM ET
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I'll try again in 2023.