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Read-alongs, recommendations and round-ups

Aug 1, 2024 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence (2 of 4), The Old Curiosity Shop (18 of 18) & The Catcher in the Rye

Carnality, clocks and canal boats

Feb 13 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence (1 of 4) & The Old Curiosity Shop (17 of 18)

Tong, Kully and Belmont

Feb 6 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence (0 of 4) & Anna Karenina (13 of 14)

Conspicuous consumption, counter culture and concentration camps

Jan 30 • Henry Eliot

The Call of the Wild (2 of 2), The Brothers Karamazov (1 of 16) & Edith Wharton

Startsy, Stendhal syndrome and champagne baths

Jan 23 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence (2 of 4), The Old Curiosity Shop (18 of 18) & The Catcher in the Rye

Carnality, clocks and canal boats

Feb 13 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence (1 of 4) & The Old Curiosity Shop (17 of 18)

Tong, Kully and Belmont

Feb 6 • Henry Eliot

The Age of Innocence (0 of 4) & Anna Karenina (13 of 14)

Conspicuous consumption, counter culture and concentration camps

Jan 30 • Henry Eliot

The Call of the Wild (January 2026)

The Call of the Wild (2 of 2), The Brothers Karamazov (1 of 16) & Edith Wharton

Startsy, Stendhal syndrome and champagne baths

Jan 23 • Henry Eliot

The Call of the Wild (1 of 2) & Don Quixote's Descendants

Hidalgos, heroes and huskies

Jan 16 • Henry Eliot

The Call of the Wild (0 of 2), The Old Curiosity Shop (16 of 18) & The Age of Innocence

Bonanza Creek, a gentleman thief and a hideous idol

Jan 9 • Henry Eliot

The Brothers Karamazov

Dubliners (December 2025)

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (November 2025)

Beloved (October 2025)

The Trial (September 2025)

The Summer Book (August 2025)

Robinson Crusoe (July 2025)

Mrs Dalloway (June 2025)

The Counterfeiters (May 2025)

The Old Curiosity Shop (April 2025)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (March 2025)

Persuasion (February 2025)

Anna Karenina

The Thin Man (December 2024)

Under the Volcano (November 2024)

The Haunting of Hill House (October 2024)

The Sorrows of Young Werther (September 2024)

Read the Classics with Henry Eliot

Read the Classics with Henry Eliot

Read-alongs, recommendations and round-ups

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