The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty books from my classics list. On Sunday, October 19th, 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 21st, 2025.
I created a list for Spin #41, but I have not yet read the book that was picked (which was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark). I debated whether to join in on this one, but I decided I would take the optimistic approach and hope that I have time to read both books before the end of the year.
So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin...
- Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
- Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
- Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)
- Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1950)
- Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (1847)
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (1955)
- John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Virginia Woolf – Flush (1933)
- J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey (1847)
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958)
- Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest (1929)
- Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
- Albert Camus – The Stranger (1942)
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
- Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
The three books I would most like to read for this spin are A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Highsmith, or Our Man in Havana by Greene. However, any of the books on my list would be fine.
16 comments:
I really like the books you have here, Tracy. There are several of them that I've read, and I'm wondering what you'll think if one of those gets chosen. Things Fall Apart, for instance, is (in my opinion) a powerful look at culture clash and colonialization, among other things. And Fahrenheit 451 is, I think, a classic exploration of the banning of ideas from books. There are several others, and I'm really looking forward to finding out which one you draw.
Good luck on the spin and let me put in a good word for my favorites; The Martian Chronicles, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart. Each one of these books is an incredible reading experience
Does a new book get chosen every month? I don't understand the rules.
I've read nine and really should have read many more. Many favorites here, but the most-est favorite is ALICE IN WONDERLAND because I am a kid at heeart.
You've got a good list, Tracy. I've read several of these (for school most likely), but not for a number of years. If I had to pick, I'd say JANE EYRE. That one was very good.
I've read several from your list and would recommend any of them. If I had to pick, I'd say Fahrenheit 451 since it feels so relevant right now. I hope you enjoy whatever the spin brings you.
Margot, I have heard many good things about Things Fall Apart, so I am sure I will like it when I read it. I have read Fahrenheir 451, but it has been so long I don't remember it.
Kathy, I am sure I will enjoy any of those you mentioned. Jane Eyre is one I feel that I must have read, but I have no memory of it.
Constance, I always feel that I haven't explained how it works well. I will have to work on a new explanation.
This is what happens:
Each Classics Club member who participates chooses 20 unread books from their Classics List and puts the list in a post.
On the next Sunday, the Classics Club generates a random number between 1 and 20, and the blogger will read the book with that number on their list, before the deadline. The blogger can be flexible with how they choose their books, like if they only have 10 books left to read, they can list the ten books twice. There are step by step directions on the spin post at the Classics Club blog, maybe I will copy that in my post next time.
Jerry, you are definitely a kid at heart, and that is a good thing.
I am sure that I read Alice in Wonderland as a child, because I can picture the book on the shelf. But it should be fun to read it many, many years later.
Kay, Jane Eyre would be a good choice. I really should pick that book soonish, whether or not it comes up on a spin.
Kelly, I do think Fahrenheit woud be relevant to our current times. I recently finished reading Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, which was published in 1989, and the plot seemed to be based on current times in our country.
Lots of goodies there, but I feel this would be the perfect time of year for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! Hope you get one you enjoy!
NancyElin: What a great mix of classics (...I've saved it for future reference!) I read 11 and thought Camus, Stevenson and Bradbury (415) were wonderful books that I did not expect to like! Need to read Greene, Isherwood and Vonnegut. Hope you get a good "spin "
Great list! I'd like to reread Alice in Wonderland someday. And Slaughterhouse Five, too. I read that when I was a teenager and I'm not sure I fully understood or appreciated it. Hope you spin a good one!
I've been trying to figure out if I even own 20 unread classics to do something like this. How old does a book need to be in order to call it a classic?
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