It's Classics Club Spin time again! Each Clubber has a personal list of 50-100 classic books that we have chosen to be our challenge list. For the Spin we pick 20 of those titles and put them into a numbered list. On August 9th the Club moderators will draw a number from 1 to 20 and we have to read that book on our list by the end of September and report back to the Club.
I failed completely for Spin #23 - I just could not read anything in April and May. But I'm hoping to be in a reading mood now, so here's a list of books that I think I have on my shelves or can get for my Kindle. First publication date is in parentheses.
- At Swim-two-birds, Flann O'Brien (1939)
- Billy Budd and other Tales, Herman Melville (~1891)
- Candide, Voltaire (1759)
- The Dubliners, James Joyce (1914)
- Emma, Jane Austen (1815)
- Enemies, A Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966)
- Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac (1833)
- Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884)
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie (1924)
- Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works, Aphra Behn (<1689)
- The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, Gertrude Stein (1933)
- The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)
- The Reef, Edith Wharton (1912)
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1859)
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)
- This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
- Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
- The Vicar of Bullhampton, Anthony Trollope (1870)
- Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (1864)
I'm looking forward to reading them all eventually, but I think I'd like to tackle Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas". Go #12!
UPDATE: The spin is #18, so I have a date with "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. Everyone tells me it's great fun, so I'm happy. Cheerful books are easier for me to concentrate on during these trying days.
So many great books on your list! Wives & Daughters, Jane Eyre, and Emma are particular favorites of mine. Candide is very funny and you can't go wrong with Agatha Christie. Good luck with your spin pick!
ReplyDeleteAnd I just noticed Three Men in a Boat -- it's very funny. If you like audiobooks there are some excellent narrations.
DeleteThanks - I am very happy to be reading "Three Men in a Boat" for this spin! I hope ynjoy your book, too.
DeleteThe Man in the Brown Suit! I love that book! It's one of my favorites! :)
ReplyDeleteIt does sound good. I'll try to read that one soon becasue a lot of people tell me how good it is.
DeleteThere's some great books on that list. Emma's awful lot of fun. But I always like it when people get books I've never read, so I hope you get the Edith Wharton--that's one I'd really like to know about!
ReplyDeleteNo Wharton this Spin, but I do like her work and want to read more. "Three Men in a Boat" should be a nice, light read for me in these crazy days.
DeleteOhh The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas would be my pick too - good lulck!
ReplyDeleteWell, no Alice B. for me this time, but I think I will enjoy "Three Men in a Boat" a lot! I hope you like your date with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
DeleteI forgot about The Man in the Brown Suit. I've added it to my to-read list. Here's my spin list: http://carolsnotebook.com/2020/08/06/classics-club-spin-24/
ReplyDeleteI think that's one of the best things about checking out the CC lists, finding new books to read!
DeleteI listened to this one while on a long trip, and the connection of the book about a trip while on a trip worked well for us.
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought it would be perfect while on the road. Unfortunately that's not possible for me right now. But I am in travel-dreaming mode, so it did fit into my theme of the moment!
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