It’s time for another Classics Spin!
What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Friday, March 9th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the year (details to follow). Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
On Friday, March 9, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by April 30, 2018. We’ll check in here to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
I did the last spin a few months ago, and got Don Quixote. I only finished Part I by the end of the year, so I’m including it again — so if I get it I’ll read Part II. I’ve mixed up the rest of my list and made a few changes, but it’s basically the same as last time. Have fun, clubbers!
And the spin number is: #3! I’ll be reading Invisible Man.
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- One Fine Day – Mollie Panter-Downes
- Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
- The Mozart Season – Virginia Ewer Wolff
- My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- My Life and Hard Times – James Thurber
- The Seventh Raven – Peter Dickinson
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- Throwing Shadows – E.L. Konigsburg
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- Wise Children – Angela Carter
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love – Elizabeth von Arnim
- A London Child of the 1870s – Molly Hughes
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
- The Spire – William Golding
- Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Emerald City Book Review Archive 
Ooo, lots of great stuff on here! I hope you get My Brilliant Career.
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I’d love that, although I wouldn’t mind the push to finish DQ.
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Great list–it’s hard to pick just one. But I’ll always root for Henry James! 😀
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Good to hear, I’ve always been intimidated by him.
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Good luck! I’ve read a few of those and particularly enjoyed The Three Musketeers, Testament of Youth and A Room of One’s Own.
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Those all sound so good.
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You have an interea g mod f titles. I found it hard to get into Portrait of a Lady but rereading it got me to appreciate it more.
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I have got to dig into James at some point.
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Good luck with this list – there are some excellent books that I haven’t yet read on there!
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Thanks, – I’m looking forward to seeing what I get.
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Great list, Lory. I hope to read A Testament of Youth sometime this year.
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LAURIE YOU MUST. Also I highly recommended (perhaps moreso) Chronicle of Youth — the journal upon which she bases her memoirs. It is chilling for its immediacy. If you only read one, read the memoirs.
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That sounds so good.
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#5 please. x Good luck!
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Thanks Jillian!
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Interesting list of know and unknown to me classics. I would love to hear your take on Wise Children. I can’t love Carter the way others do but she has such enthusiastic fans and I do love to hear about why they love her books so much.
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I think I actually read it once but it was a long time ago and I forget my response. From a recent reread of The Bloody Chamber, I found I loved some of her stories but not others. Her style is so strong, but sometimes it works for me and sometimes it doesn’t.
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I have not heard of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison before, but I hope you will enjoy it. 🙂
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Thanks Jessica! I hope I’ll finish it time and be reviewing it soon.
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