The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. I have chosen twenty books from my classics list. This list of twenty books is the same as my last Spin List, with only one addition to replace the book I read for the last spin.
It may be difficult for me to fit in a book from my classics list during November because I am going to be focusing on novellas for Novellas in November. Most of the books on this list of twenty are short, quick reads, so maybe that won't be a problem.
On Sunday 17th October, 2021, 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 12th December, 2021.
So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin.
- Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe [209 pages]
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith [249 pages]
- Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier [410 pages]
- The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [167 pages]
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Quiet American (1958) by Graham Greene [180 pages]
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
- The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
- A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
- Beast In View (1955) by Margaret Millar
- The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy [200 pages]
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl
- My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather
- Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood
- Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker [420 pages]
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James Cain
- The Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson
17 comments:
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get one of the shorter ones, Tracy. Dracula is good but quite an investment timewise. (Deleted my first comment because I keep putting a superfluous 'e' in your name!)
You really do have a fine list of books here, Tracy. I honestly think you'll do well no matter which book you get. I've never done the classics spin, but so many people enjoy it. Maybe I should think about it.
You have a lot of great books on this list. I haven't read this Graham Greene, but have really liked the books by him that I have read. Good luck getting a novella in the spin!
Very nice! I have read 9 of these. My favorite is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, I have read it 3 times
Lots of goodies there, but since you're going to be short of reading time, I hope you get The Sign of Four - it would work for Novellas in November too, and it's such fun you'll race through it!
That's a great list, I've only read eight of them but I think I'll be adding several more of them to my new classics list which I'll have to be compiling soonish.
Thanks, Cath. I left a couple of longer ones on the list, including Dracula, because I thought they would be good and I could fit them in somewhere.
I will be happy with any of the books, Margot, they are all very appealing.
Mary, Graham Greene is an author I want to read more of.
Emma, you would think I would have read more by Carson McCullers, since I grew up in the South (Alabama). But if I get The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, it will the first book I have read by her.
FictionFan, The Sign of Four would be a good choice. This is another author I need to read more books by (and his short stories).
Katrina, and I so far behind on reading classics on my list, I need to be reading more than just the ones for the spin. Maybe in 2022 I will put more effort into that.
Interesting list. I've read or have on the pile nearly half of them - 9 in total. Assuming I can count the Conan Doyle's I read as a teenager.
Of course you can count books read in your teens, Col. I wish I had read Conan Doyle's books in my teens. Then I would not be so ignorant about his books and stories now.
In my teens I read Agatha Christie, Earl Stanley Gardner (for sure), and Rex Stout. Not that I remember specific books from those times.
They have announced the spin number and it is 12. I will be reading The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is pretty awesome. I think it has one of the best opening paragraphs in literature. Easily the best thing she ever wrote.
Dfordoom, I am concentrating on reading novellas in November and We Have Always Lived in the Castle fits in that category, so I hope to read it then. Mostly I read crime fiction, but I want to read novellas in other genres also.
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