The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty books from my classics list that are still unread. On Sunday, February 16th, 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 April 11th, 2025.
So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin...
- Edna Ferber – Show Boat (1926)
- Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr.Ripley (1955)
- Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
- William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
- John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- William Thackeray – Vanity Fair (1848)
- Virginia Woolf – Flush (1933)
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958)
- Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (1847)
- Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
- Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)
- Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest (1929)
- Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
- Dorothy L. Sayers – The Nine Tailors (1934)
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
- James Thurber – The 13 Clocks (1950)
The first 15 books on this list were on my last Spin list. But I have swapped out some books on the last list for others from my Classics list, so the last 5 books are new ones.
The two books I would most like to be selected from my list are A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle or Cannery Row by Steinbeck. Although I am sure that The Talented Mr. Ripley by Highsmith will be too tense for me, I would like to finally read that one. However, any books on my list would be fine.
7 comments:
I read and thoroughly enjoyed our man in Havana just a couple of weeks ago, so I hope you get that one! But whatever you get, I hope it's one you enjoy!
Fiction Fan, Our Man in Havana would be a good one. I have it on the Kindle and I would rather read a paper copy but one of my goals is to read more ebooks. One of my spin results last year was The Quiet American and it was very good.
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood sounds good. I have never read him but I must make a plan to do so. I did read The Talented Mr. Ripley a long time ago. It is dark. I hope you get to read either Frankenstein, Jane Eyre or Things Fall Apart. They are all excellent. And I must check out The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
You do like the classic mysteries! Can't beat those authors in this genre
Hmmm...which one to root for. Jane Eyre, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or The Portrait of Dorian Gray would likely be my 'picks' (if I were doing the picking - ha!). Good luck!
I've actually read ten of the books on your list. The two I do want to read and haven't yet are The Talented Mr. Ripley and Thirteen Clocks. (And I recently watched Showboat again; I love Howard Keel's voice. Though I understand the book has a sadder ending than the movie does.)
Ten for me also. I keep trying to read RED HARVEST since Megan (along with Scott Frank) are working on a series of it for Netflix. But I find it impenetrable. I know people have a high regard for it so I will keep trying.
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