The Classics Club is holding its 19th Spin.
The idea is to list 20 of the books on your Classics Club list before November 27 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.
This is an extra special, super-dooper CHUNKSTER edition of the Classics Club Spin. We challenge you to fill this spin list with 20 of those HUGE books you’ve been putting off reading because you didn’t have enough time. With this spin we are giving you the time – nearly 10 weeks in fact – to tackle one of those imposing tomes on your classics shelf.
I don’t have many chunksters on my list, so I picked 10 and repeated them to make 20:
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
** Update: The Spin was #1. Happily I didn’t pack The Three Musketeers away for Christmas, just in case it was the lucky number.
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall and The Woman in White – two of my favourites 🙂 Odyssey and Middlemarch are amazing as well. Truth be told I could probably live without Edwin Drood and Three Musketeers – definitely not favourites of mine…
I tried The Woman in White before, but I’m thinking maybe the timing was just bad. I remember an abridged version of The Three Musketeers from when I was a kid, and am hoping I might enjoy the original.
I’ve read The Woman in White, Middlemarch, the Odyssey and The Tenant – all fabulous stories that would make a good Christmas holiday read 🙂
Glad to hear you enjoyed them.
I’ve got The Tenant of Wildfell Hall on my list too (different number). Enjoy!
Thanks! I hope you enjoy your spin read too, whatever it ends up being.
Is Anatomy of a Murder a chunkster? Oh dear, I included it on my list because I assumed being a crime novel it would be short! Anyway, I’m on a mission to force the whole world to read Dickens at Christmas, so my vote goes to Edwin Drood. Good luck! 😀
I have Tenant and Woman in White on my list…in different positions. I liked The Odyssey when I read it. Great list! Good luck!