I swear a week ago I was thinking, ‘this would be a great time for a Classics Club Spin’, and lo and behold the reading gods answered!
For those who don’t know I’m in the progress of reading 50 classics in 4 years (that I’ve already chosen). The website that hosts the challenge does a fun game called a CC Spin, where your next classic is chosen for you. On November 17th, a random number is chosen out of 20 and then I have to read (and review) the corresponding book by December 31st.
This is great for me because after The Phantom, I didn’t know which classic I wanted to end the year with, so I’ll let fate take the reigns this time. I’ll see everyone on the 17th to talk about the chosen book!
1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
2 The Collector – John Fowles
3 Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
4 Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
5 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
6 The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
7 The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
8 Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
9 The Life of Charlotte Bronte – Elizabeth Gaskell
10 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
11 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12 Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
13 Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
15 A Passage to India – E. M. Forester
16 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
17 The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
18 Under the Greenwood Tree – Thomas Hardy
19 Watership Down – Richard Adams
20 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee
Every time I see a Classics Club post I think maybe I should join. So far, I haven’t made the commitment. But I do enjoy reading about everyone’s lists! Yours is good!
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Thank you! I highly recommend once you are able to. It has helped a lot with not just focusing on new releases.
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Yay! Happy spinning! I’m rooting for #1, #5, #7, #17, or #20 on your list… because those books are amazing. So are #3, #10, and #13, thuogh. Oh, and #16 and #19. HAHA! You’ve got a crackin’ good list!
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Lol! I’m also excited for a lot of titles Next spin I’ll have to put more scary ones on my list.
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I’ve only read a few of your choices but enjoyed most of them, so I’m going to hope you get either Rebecca or A Passage to India – both great! I haven’t read Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but the movie version with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is one of my all-time favourite films. 🙂
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I’ve really been wanting to watch the film. I’ll probably do so right after I read it.
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I wish you Watership Down – one of my favourite childhood reads 🙂
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I hope I get it soon, I heard they are remaking the animated movie next year. Want to read it before that.
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