The Classics Club is holding its 22nd Spin.
The idea is to list 20 of the books on your Classics Club list before December 22 when the wheel will turn and reveal the winning number. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by January 31.
My Book Spin List –
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wild
- The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Odyssey by Homer
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Orient Express by Graham Greene
- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Have you read any of these and loved them? Any I should hope the wheel doesn’t land on?
Oh, hey! We both have Journey to the Center of the Earth for #16! I have Treasure Island on my list too, but at #3.
That’s cool. I don’t know whether to hope #16 hits or not. Jules Verne can be hit or miss for me.
It probably wouldn’t be my first choice either, but let the dice fall where they may.
Oh the Blue Castle would be a lovely Northern hemisphere Christmas read.
It sounds like such a sweet story.
You have a wonderful list. Which book do I hope you spin? The Thirteen Clocks.
It seems like a fun one.
I really struggled with Orlando (had to read it for an Open University course) but The SPy Who Came In From The Cold is le Carre at his best I think.
I watched the 1992 movie way back when and remember loving it, which is why I put Orlando on my list.
What a good list! Middlemarch is a whopper; it’s on my to-be-reread list, but I keep putting it off because of its length. Maybe in the new year. . .
When I do read it, whether it be this spin or later, I may try to find a good audio version.
Edwin Drood is one of my absolute favorites.
I’m glad to hear that. I haven’t read many of Dickens’.
This is such an awesome list! You practically can’t go wrong. I’m going to vote for The 13 Clocks because it’s such a delightful story.
I’m hoping for one of the short ones. On the other hand, January is usually quiet and cold, maybe a good time to curl up with a chunkster.