Persephone Week Redux

I never did quite finish off Persephone Reading Week properly, in the manner of others - which is to say the Persephone Books I'm keen to read next. I had hoped it would clear my backlog a bit, but instead it just made me very keen to read lots of others...

Before I do that, Rachel's recent post at Book Snob included a picture of all her Persephone titles in non-Persephone editions, as well as a picture of her Persephones. It seemed a fun idea, so here's mine:


I also have Flush by Virginia Woolf, of course, but not in Somerset. Me being me, I don't see these collections as competing, but rather complementary... i.e. I'll buy a Persephone copy and a non-Persephone copy if I come across it cheaply enough.

And my copy of The Priory by Dorothy Whipple came with an exciting surprise, once I got it home...


As for the Persephones I'm now keen to read - here's the top five.

The Village - Marghanita Laski


Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski


Saplings - Noel Streatfeild


Farewell Leicester Square - Betty Miller


A House in the Country - Jocelyn Playfair

Luckily I have all of these waiting on my Persephone shelf. I wonder how many I'll have read by the time we get to next year's Persephone Reading Week...