The Classics Club is hosting a Classics Spin! Quite an interesting game really :) I am to make a list of 20 books from the remaining books on my CC list. On February 18, a number will be randomly chosen and I have until April 1st to finish the book with that corresponding number! As an added twist, I can organize my Spin List into different categories. For example:
- 5 books you are dreading/hesitant to read,
- 5 books you can’t WAIT to read,
- 5 books you are neutral about,
- 5 free choice
Should be fun!!
MY SPIN LIST
5 Re-Reads
1. Little Women//L.M. Alcott
2. Anne of Green Gables//L.M. Montgomery
3. Jane Eyre//Charlotte Bronte
4. Stuart Little//E.B. White
5. What Katy Did//Susan Coolidge
5 Titles I’m Dreading
6. Robinson Crusoe//Daniel Defoe
7. The Grapes of Wrath//John Steinbeck
8. Moby Dick//Herman Melville
9 Don Quioxote//Miguel de Cervantes
10. Crime and Punishment//Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5 New Titles I’m Excited to Explore!
11. The Jungle//Upton Sinclair
12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//Maya Angelou
13. The Pilgrim’s Progress//John Bunyan
14. The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass/Fredrick Douglass
15. Invisible Man//Ralph Ellison
5 Titles I Know Very Little About
16. The Warden//Anthony Trollope
17. Pygmalion//George Bernard Shaw
18. For Whom the Bell Tolls//Ernest Hemingway
19. Madame Bovary//Gustave Flaubert
20. Portrait of a Lady//Henry James
I love #14. :) Good luck!
I’ve been wanting to read it for awhile! Even if #14 doesn’t win, it’s on my TBR list so I’ll get to it sometime this year! I’m hoping for any number between 11 and 20!! :)
Hey, cool idea! Maybe I’ll do that too…maybe. ;) Hope you get a good book on the spin!
I hope I do too! By all means, join in the fun :)
The Warden is good, it’s a great introduction to Trollope. It starts out a little slow but it sets up the action for Barchester Towers, which is GREAT. Trollope’s wonderful, have you read any of his other books yet?
And I loved Madame Bovary. She’s a complete train wreck, yet I couldn’t stop reading.
Good to know!!! Thank you :) I have never read anything by Trollope, nor do I know anything about him. Do you recommend any of his other works?
Ow, why dread “Grapes of Wrath”? I found it so brilliant :) As for the rest under the “dreading”, yeah, I would dread those too. Most of your re-reads seem real comfort-read kind of books (always a good thing) and I also found the life of Emma B from “Madame Bovary” not dull to observe at all.
Good luck!
I guess it’s because I wasn’t a fan of the movie. It’ll be a pleasant surprise if I end up liking the book, but I’m open! I’m just not in the mood to read it anytime soon lol. I’m curious about Madame Bovary! I wouldn’t mind reading it! Thanks :)
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They all sound like good books! I am definitely going to have to try this as well! Best of luck. :)
Most of those books are heavyweights. It’ll be an intellectual challenge (or, at least, it would be for me!) Good luck :)
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