Saturday, June 14, 2025

Spinning the Classics

It is time for another Classics Club Spin. The last one resulted in a DNF for me, but I am going to try again! 

On Sunday 15th June 2025 the spin number will be posted and the challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by the 24th August, 2025.

  1. Delta WeddingEudora Welty, 1946
  2. Aesop's Fables
  3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
  4. Come and Get It, Edna Ferber, 1935
  5. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867
  6. The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
  7. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847
  8. Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
  9. A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704
  10. Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 1915 [TCL has Cather at this # too]
  11. 3 Lives, Gertrude Stein, 1909
  12. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945 [Wordsworth and Watercolors picked this too]
  13. Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
  14. Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry, 1985 
  15. Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
  16. The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham, 1944
  17. Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy, 1955
  18. The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968
  19. Russia House, John le Carre, 1989
  20. Steamboat Gothic, Francis Parkinson Keyes, 1952

2 comments:

  1. Nice list, a lot of variety. I hope you get either Delta Wedding or Vanity Fair so I can see what you think of them.

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  2. I'm interested in all things Gertrude Stein atm with the new bio coming out, so I wish you Three Lives, although all your books would be interesting choices.

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