Classics Club Spin #39, October 2024

 

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...

1. Edna Ferber – Show Boat
2. Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr.Ripley (1955)
3. Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
4. Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
5. William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
6. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
7. John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
8. William Thackeray – Vanity Fair (1848)
9. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
10. Virginia Woolf – Flush (1933)
11. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958)
12. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
13. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (1847) 
14. Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey (1847)
15. Albert Camus – The Stranger (1942)
16. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
17. John Meade Falkner – The Nebuly Coat (1903)
18. Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
19. Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)
20. 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.