The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty books from my classics list. On Sunday, October 20, the Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The goal is to read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by December 18, 2024.
So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin...
- Edna Ferber – Show Boat
- Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr.Ripley (1955)
- Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
- Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
- William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
- John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
- William Thackeray – Vanity Fair (1848)
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Virginia Woolf – Flush (1933)
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958)
- Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (1847)
- Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey (1847)
- Albert Camus – The Stranger (1942)
- Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- John Meade Falkner – The Nebuly Coat (1903)
- Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
- Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)
- Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
This list is almost the same as last month. I replaced my last spin book, which I completed, with The Nebuly Coat. I am currently reading The Wind in the Willows, so I replaced that one with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
I will be happy with any book from the list. The two books I would most like to be selected are A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle and Cannery Row by Steinbeck. There are some that I expect to be challenging reads, such as Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare or Vanity Fair by Thackeray or The Talented Mr.Ripley by Highsmith.
I am most intrigued by the Falkner one. New author and title for me.
ReplyDeleteNeer, I read about The Nebuly Coat by Falkner years ago at Moira's Clothes in Books blog. If I don't get it for this spin I should just go ahead and read it anyway, I think it is less than 200 pages. I only have an ebook copy though, less easy for me to read.
DeleteGreat list, Tracy...I've read 9 of your selections. You reminded me...I should read more William Shakespeare! Perhaps in 2025...challenge my self to read 4-5 works. My 1-2-3 choices on your list would be: Edna Ferber, Graham Greene and Chinua Achebe!
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DeleteNancy, I always enjoy the Spins because I get to hear which of the books on my list other readers have enjoyed. The Graham Greene would be a good one for this spin.
DeleteI am intimidated by reading Shakespeare, but I think the one on this list will be a good start to see if I can handle it.
You've chosen some great books, Tracy. I like the way they span the generations, too. And I can see why you'd want Cannery Row. I've actually not read Steinbeck for a bit, so I ought to do some of that.
ReplyDeleteMargot, I read some books by Steinbeck when I was much younger, and I want to see what I think of his writing now.
DeleteNever heard of THE NEBULY COAT.
ReplyDeletePatti, I don't know that much about the author, John Meade Falkner, either. Moira at the Clothes in Books blog has done two posts on that book, and also one on Moonfleet, which I think is better known. I think he wrote three or four books.
DeleteLots of goodies to choose from! I love Vanity Fair but it's very long, so maybe We Have Always Lived in the Castle would be my choice - nicely spooky for this time of year! Hope you get one you enjoy!
ReplyDeleteFictionFan, I hope I like Vanity Fair as much as you did, whenever I read it. I am fairly sure I will find We Have Always Lived in the Castle too tense but I do want to read it anyway.
DeleteI could happily read (or reread in some cases) any of the books on your list. Can't wait to see what you spin. :D
ReplyDeleteLark, I think any of these books will be good reads. In terms of how much of a challenge they might be to read, the Shakespeare play and Vanity Fair are the most intimidating.
DeleteHaving just read Frankenstein, I hope you get that... but there are lots of good ones here! We'll find out soon!
ReplyDeleteKelly, this would be a great time to read Frankenstein. I would be happy to get that one for the spin.
DeleteHi Tracy, you have some really great books on this list and Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Things Fall Apart are excellent and I haven't read the Portrait of Dorian Grey but would like to read it.
ReplyDeleteKathy, This is a good season for The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the descriptions I have read. I have lovely Penguin Classics editions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein. I have heard many good reports on Things Fall Apart. So I would be happy with any of those.
DeleteOkay I see the magic number is #3, so that would be Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle on your list. I have read it! It's short & pretty quick ... so I think it's a good pick. It was very visual to me and a bit spooky/creepy. I hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteSusan, I am glad the pick this time was We Have Always Lived in the Castle although I am a bit leery of spooky and creepy novels. But I have a nice copy, and I really do want to read it.
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