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The Classics Club
2016-2020
The Classics Spin #16
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before next Friday, November 17th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the year. Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
On Friday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by Dec 31, 2017. We’ll check in here in January to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
So here are my 20 books:
- The Poisoned Crown, by Maurice Druon
- Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
- Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc
- The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe
- The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
- Solaris, by Stanislas Lem
- Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Fantômas, by Marcel Allain
- A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
- Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck
- A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
- Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov
- Confusion, by Stefan Zweig
- Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar, by Michel Tournier
- Paradise Regained, by John Milton
- We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
COME BACK ON NOVEMBER 18
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Ooh, there’s some great stuff here! I’ve never heard of the Poisoned Crown but now I’m intrigued…
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The Poisoned Crown is volume 3 in the famous historical fiction series by French Maurice Druon (1918-2009), entitles The Accursed Kings. Harper has recently republished the 7 volumes in English translation
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I see that we have some authors in common on our lists, although we chose different books.
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The neat thing with the spin is what we constantly discover new titles, well at least for me. There are some classics out there I have never even heard of
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Moonstone is great! It’s one of my favorite books.
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ah ah, #3 would be great. I really liked The Woman in White
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This looks a promising list. How did you decide which to include?
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mostly going through the smallest titles among my 50 classics list to read in 5 years: https://wordsandpeace.com/2016/01/01/the-classics-club-2016-2020/
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A good plan!
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thanks Karen
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Great to see some classic crime and sci-fi on your list alongside the literary fiction. I’ll be reading We soon, so I’m going to hope you get that one… 😀
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indeed, that would be great!
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This is an interesting list lots of books on here that I haven’t seen on other people’s lists. To the Lighthouse is a lovely read.
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wow, that’s encouraging for this one. I had to DNF Mrs Dalloway so I’m approaching this one with fear and trembling…
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I have never heard of the Russian authors or titles on this list. I will have to do some looking around…
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I have read lots of great reviews on Oblomov
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I just started reading some of Dorothy Sayers this year and will need to add Whose Body? to my list…I read her short essays and those were good. Excited for Nov. 17th!
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yes, that’s her first novel of a series. I know, I can’t wait either!
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You’ve got quite the action-packed list, and then there’s Oblomov, who does almost nothing through the entire novel. What a mix!
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yes, and I also love that type of nothing-is-happening books – after all, I did read all of In Search of Lost Time! lol
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Great list! I see we share The Sound and the Fury. However, seeing your list I’m almost rooting for #3, as I simply loved The Moonstone. Whichever it is, I hope you enjoy.
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we’ll see! Enjoy it too. Thanks for stopping by
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That is an interesting list. I’ve only read numbers 2, 3, 12, 13, 15 and 16. I enjoyed them all but To the Lighthouse was my least favourite. When I finished Travels with Charley, Steinbeck felt like a friend.
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well, 6 out of 20 is pretty good! I really enjoyed a lot East of Eden, so it would be great to get this one. I’m approaching the “wolf” lol, with fear and trembling…
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