The Classics Club is hosting another spin. By August 11 we need to post a list of 20 books remaining to-be-read from our Classics Club List and whichever one appears at the number randomly selected by the club is to be read by October 6.
Here is my list:
- The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Dubliners, James Joyce
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
- Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
- Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
I'm hoping for #9 as it is in my bag and next up on my reading list anyway. I'm not overly keen on any of the choices in the lower teens as none strike me as that appealing at the moment.
What number are you hoping for from your spin list?
I enjoyed Portrait of a Lady much more than I was expecting to, it had much more depth than I thought it would.
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I just loved Whartons' The House of Mirth ---- one of my all-time favourites! Oh wow, I am still trying to get through If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. I just need to be in the proper head-space for it. I have A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court on my list too and I'm kind of dreading it, but I'm not really certain why. I've been assured that it's good, though.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get the book that you're wishing for!
Nice list! The House of Mirth is an amazing book! My spin list is here: http://thedwsblog.com/2014/08/04/classics-spin-7/
ReplyDeleteSo many good ones on your list! I hope you get 14 or 7. (Okay, or your pick, ha.) :)
ReplyDeleteWe will share Dubliners if 6 is spun up. I'll be glad to have a fellow reader if it this one, as I've never tackled any stream of consciousness writing before!
ReplyDeleteGood luck on Monday.
Ooh, great list! Hope the spin goes well for you.
ReplyDeleteA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is on my list too! I hope 9 is picked too!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should consider hosting a read-along of Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. There seem to be a number of people with that book on their lists.
ReplyDeleteSo many great choices here.. 7, 14, and 18 are among my favorites. Good luck.
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