Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I need your help to choose books for Shorty September.
My "longlist" is (in the order of the pile in the picture):
The Reckoning - Edith Wharton
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrick Engels
A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
My Side of the Matter - Truman Capote
The [prime of Miss jean brodie - Muriel Spark
Add A Dash of Pity - Peter Ustinov
Three men In A Boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Ballad of the Sa Cafe - Carson McCullers
Experiment on Criticism - C S Lewis
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Fascism & democracy - George Orwell
Why I Am So Clever - Friedrich Nietzsche
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Unknown
Heat & Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I Who have Never Known men - Jacqueline Harpman
Fahrenheit 4511 - Rau Bradbury
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Frontiers of the Sea = Peter Ustinov