The time for the Classic Club Spin! Check that out through the link 👈 and join in if you'd like. It took me years to finally join the Classics Club and I've enjoyed having a goal of reading books on my list. The Spin is a fun little game.
Here's my book list for the Classics Club Spin
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- And The There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
- Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
- It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Out of Africa by Blixon, Karen
- Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Covenant by James Michener
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
When the spin number is announced on Sunday 17th of May, I will (hopefully) read that book before 5th of July, 2026. Wish me luck!
Will you be joining in? Check out the announcement post HERE.
Oh I like the Spin. Even though I haven't joined the CC yet. You have a good list ... though various seem dark or sad but that's the breaks. I especially love that you put #13 on your list. Yay. I'd reread that one with you ... I'm rooting for the Spin to be #13 but I'm okay if it's any of the others. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Susan, if it's 13 we can make that happen! And if it's not we can plan Out of Africa for this summer. I'd like to start hitting my classics list more and then the library holds come in. Vicious cycle. We will know Sunday which book I get.
DeleteI've read quite a a few of yours and have the Muriel Spark on my list, as well. I hope you get Lost Horizon. I really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly, I will be excited to get any as I have been neglecting my list lately. I just looked at your list and you have some good titles. I need to add Ann of Green Gables to my next list. Nevil Shute is another author I want to read more of. Good luck on your spin as well!
DeleteThat’s a great list! I’ve read quite a few of those, and some are my favorites. Enjoy your chosen book!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robin. I hope the Spin gives you a book you desire. You have a great list.
DeleteGood list! I've read And Then There Were None, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ethan Frome, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Great Gatsby. Of those, I think I'd re-read Ethan Frome. Hotel du Lac is one that I've always intended to read.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Les. I had read two on my list at university but it's been eons! I have started a draft list for the next 50 already and need to go through more on my current list. Those library books just keep coming in and distracting me!
DeleteI have read so many of your books (except for 8-11, 14, 16, and 19) and have the Hemingway on my list. But we have different numbers, so we won't both get it.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your spin.
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Marianne, I hope you get the one you want but, even if it wasn't your idea, I still like how you posted the list, repeating the titles. Good idea to keep a small stack of books ready as you mentioned.
DeleteThanks, Tina, we all pick up ideas from each other, and I really like only having 10 books on that list. I don't even know which one I want, so that's nice to have that chance.
DeleteI remember reading and loving all the James Michener books I read when I was younger including The Covenant. I think I remember reading Hawaii and Texas. I wonder how many of those wonderful books he wrote.
ReplyDeleteDeb, Michener is so prolific and I was stalking him before stalking was a term, lol. I sent him birthday invitations, invited him to a school fund raiser and even sent him a bound notebook with tabs on ideas about a book about Australia. Alas, he was too ill to take on another majr research project but I still have that letter back from his assistant. Crazy...or I guess i was.
DeleteBrona, thanks so much. I am looking forward to any of these and hope to finsih my list of 50 books way earlier than the 5 year goal.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great list and I've actually read eleven of them - most of them so long ago that I probably couldn't tell you much about the plots anymore. Like Deb, Michener was once one of my very favorite authors and I think I have read all (or most) of his fiction. He was a terrifically entertaining writer.
ReplyDeleteDorothy, I love Michener, used ti write to him ften. I ended up getting Hotel Du Lac by Anita Bookner. It's good to meet another Michener fan!
DeleteJust popping in to say THANK YOU for the card you sent re Marilyn. Very sweet, kind and thoughtful of you.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the spin!!!!
Jinjer, you have been on my mind and I like writing to you xo Turns out I got Hotel Du Lac.
DeleteI can't wait to see what you get and then what you think of it. I haven't read most of these but I'm intrigued by most of them. I tried the Classic Club years ago but kind of let it slide and my goal date is long past. I should give it another try!
ReplyDeleteKatherine, I got Hotel Du Lac and it's short so I may try and pick another from my list as well. Heck yeah, you love making a list, as do I, so you shiuld join in again. It's such a great laid back challenge and you can replace titles if you want. Nothing written in stone so to speak.
DeleteYou have some really good ones on here! I have read a few of them. I am excited to see which one you end up reading.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Erin. I will start on Hotel Di Lac after i finihs YesterYear. maybe read another one too!
DeleteSo it's Hotel du Lac! I actually (shhh! don't tell) switched the numbers on two of my books so I could read the book I want to read. Life is short...
ReplyDeleteDeb, I won't tell a soul! I was just thinking about that...life is short...as my birthday approaches and I get introspective. That old saying "so many books, so little time" has more meaning now. I think we may have the same birth year.
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