The Classics Club is holding its 24th Spin.
The idea is to list 20 of the books on your Classics Club list before August 9 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 September 30. I’m glad we’re doing another one. I need a kick to get reading classics again.
My Book Spin List –
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- High Rising by Angela Thirkell
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- 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
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- 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?
Update:
The spin landed on #18, so it looks like I’ll be reading Death Comes for the Archchbishop. I already have a copy, which is nice.
I like that list. You have some that would be hard for me to read, but I will be interested to see a review of any of them.
There are a couple that will probably be hard for me to read too.
That is a great list. I’ve read 11 of them, but I would definitely dodge the Dickens and I’m not sure about Faust at all, I’ve never read anything by Goethe.
Looks like I’ll be reading Death Comes for the Archbishop. I’m hoping I like it.
You have some good ones on the list! I loved Middlemarch, and it’s pretty long so having a while to read would be good. It took me a little while to get into it, but I love a long book you can sink into, and I grew to love the characters and the slower pace.
I like long books, just not too often.
Nice looking list! I actually have The Blue Castle as a possibility for my second list whenever it is that I get finished with my first one!
I’ve actually started The Blud Castle once and couldn’t get into it. I do think it’s worth a second shot though which is why I left in on the list.
I’ve read three on your list but I’d be hoping for the Truman Capote if it was mine. Here’s my list https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/the-classics-club-spin-24-my-list-ccspin/
I will definitely read In Cold Blood soon, even though the spin didn’t land there.
There are so many on this list that I have read and loved including The 13 Clocks and Enchanted April, Wind in the Willows and Little House.
I really think any of them will be good.
I’ve read a few of those and enjoyed them, particularly The Importance of Being Earnest, Middlemarch and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Edwin Drood is great too, even though it’s unfinished. Good luck!
I watched a reading the Pittsburgh Public Theater did of The Importance of Being Earnest back in March and it reminded me why I have it on my list.
I have read and loved “Gulliver’s Travels” (one of my all-time favorite books) and “Death Comes for the Archbishop”. “The 13 Clocks” has been on my TBR forever. The cover appeals to me haha.
Glad you enjoyed Death Comes for the Archbishop since it looks like that’s what I’ll be reading.
I have read 8 of these – love Dickens and Eliot – long books but well worth it. I read Gulliver’s Travels last year and enjoyed it, but was disappointed/irritated with Wind in the Willows. Good luck!
Aside from A Christmas Carol, the only Dickens I’ve read was Bleak House. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
Some interesting titles there. I see you’ll be reading “Death Comes for the Archbishop”. I liked Cather’s “My Ántonia” and would like to read more of her work. Enjoy!
It will be the first I’ve read by her.
I really liked Death Comes For The Archbishop so I hope you do, too!
Good to hear. Thanks!