Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The 2022 nonfiction reads schedule is as follows. From the planning & suggestions thread, suggested titles that were voted on more than once have been used for a total of 8 biographies/ memoirs and 4 histories/ general subject matters. Books have been scheduled with an attempt to not put longer titles too close together and with a cluster of Russian history in the middle of the year. (We have some ambitious nonfiction readers in NTLTRC!) Months with longer titles may find discussion threads staying active for longer than that month. Enjoy!

January
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell (587 pages)

February
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud (116 pages)

March
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1344 pages)

April
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey (352 pages)

May
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes (729 pages)

June
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky (1040 pages)

July
Nicholas and Alexandra by Pulitzer Winner Robert K. Massie (640 pages)

August
A Long Way From Home by Claude McKay (270 pages)

September
The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (848 pages)

October
Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse (320 pages)

November
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (608 pages)

December
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (240 pages)

Looks excellent Samantha - ambitious but achievable. I'm really looking forward to many of these.

Thank you, Samantha - an interesting selection.

I look forward to getting started!

I am interested in Nicholas and Alexandra
The French Revolution: A History
The Story of My Life

I read The Story of my Life a few years ago and highly recommend it. Helen Keller was a remarkable person.

Coincidentally, I got an email from a well-known genealogy site this week pointing out that I was distantly related to Helen Keller. Sadly, it was utter nonsense.

An interesting list. Good luck to the ambitious nonfiction readers!

These all look great - I hope I can join you for some of them!

I'm glad everyone is so enthused about our nonfiction selection for next year! 2022 will be a bit of a shift for us in nonfiction, because the past couple years we only did reads bi-monthly. 12 nonfiction titles next year! Exciting to me too, even though I know I won't have time to get to many what with plans to start school (again).

Samantha, where will the Freud book appear?

It should be there tomorrow, Bernard. Today is Samantha's first day of on-line grad school.

Bernard wrote: "Samantha, where will the Freud book appear?"

Thank you for your patience, Bernard. As Rosemarie said, I'm starting online grad school while still working full time. I'll still be here and posting, though. No worries. :)

Thanks. Good luck with the grad schooling. (And of course the ongoing work!)