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The Classics Club
2019-2024
The Classics Spin #24
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before Sunday, August 9, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday August 9, 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 September 30, 2020.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 2nd list of 50 classics.
This time, I didn’t include any Japanese classics, preferring to read them during the next Japanese Literature Challenge.
I didn’t have time to participate in the Spin #23, so I’m really excited, especially seeing the diversity I have.
| 1. | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767) | ||
| 2. | Xavier de Maistre | Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre (1794) | ||
| 3. | Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) = reread | ||
| 4. | Machado de Assi | Dom Casmurro (1899) | ||
| 5. | Marcel Proust | Days of Reading (1905) | ||
| 6. | Robert Walser | Jakob von Gunten (1909) | ||
| 7. | A. A. Milne | The Red House Mystery (1922) | ||
| 8. | Edna Ferber* | So Big (1924) | ||
| 9. | Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924) | ||
| 10. | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky | The Letter Killers Club (1926) | ||
| 11. | Dorothy L. Sayers* | Clouds of Witness (1926) | ||
| 12. | Owen Barfield | History in English Words (1926) | ||
| 13. | Stefan Zweig | Confusion (1927) | ||
| 14. | Josephine Tey* | The Man in the Queue (1929) | ||
| 15. | Virginia Woolf* | A Room of One’s Own (1929) | ||
| 16. | Edmund Wilson | Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931) | ||
| 17. | various authors | The Floating Admiral (1931) | ||
| 18. | Hermann Broch | The Sleepwalkers (1932) | ||
| 19. | George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) | ||
| 20. | Ngaio Marsh* | A Man Lay Dead (1934) |
COME BACK ON MONDAY 10
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Words And Peace 
Interesting list. It’s funny, I’ve only read one of those books, the first one (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman). I’m already looking forward to seeing which number will be chosen so I can find out which book from my list I’m going to read next (not that I don’t have anything else to read, LOL).
Happy Reading.
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lol, yes sometimes it’s indeed tough to add one more book to read in the month! I’m really intrigued by my #1, I have heard a fascinating interview by Salman Rushdie on it, that’s why it’s here, but I know it’s long and challenging, not that I don’t like challenges, lol
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I know. It’s book club books and then books we challenge ourselves with. And then are the new ones we buy because we just have to read them. LOL
Tristram Shandy is definitely not one of my favourite classic books but, as I said on my page, definitely worth reading.
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yes, lots to keep us busy, lol1
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I think these are all new to me!
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Several are foreign classics
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I’m eager to read A Room of One’s Own and Down and Out in Paris and London. I hope the spinner lands on one of those!
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If it lands on A Room of One’s Own, I’m going to read it in English and French. I had started reading both versions a while ago, as a translation exercise
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I’ve read The Red House Mystery, which I really enjoyed, and A Man Lay Dead, which is definitely not my favorite of Marsh’s. I hope you enjoy whatever the spin lands on.
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oops, any other book by Marsh you would recommend?
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Wonderful list. I never made it through Tristram Shandy. I think I was not ready for it at the time.
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oh oh, not a good sign if YOU couldn’t finish it!!
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I’ve read The Man in the Queue and I think A Room of One’s Own but it was so long ago I remember nothing about it. Great list! I’ve seen Tristram Shandy on another list too and I have it in the pipeline.
Is Cyrano de Bergerac funny? I haven’t read the original but I read a children’s version of it once and laughed myself silly. I’ve always wondered if the original would be as amusing.
In any case, have a great spin! I’m excited to see what you get!
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Yes, definitely funny. By the way, I highly recommend the 2019 movie Cyrano My Love, so so good! I don’t see your list. You can’t participate?
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That is an ambitious list. What do the asterisks after some of the author’s names mean?
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ah, these are women authors. The Classics Club used to have a Women’s Classic Literature Event, that’s why I was trying to keep track of women authors
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That’s a very interesting list, I’ve only read six of them. and I’ve never even heard of number 10.
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Yes, our knowledge of Russian classics is so limited to just a few authors!
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Ooo! I actually don’t know any of those. Nor did I realize that A A Milne wrote anything other than Winnie-the-Pooh…
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That’s part of the fun of this club. I also keep discovering classics I had NEVER heard about
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There are some great titles there! Pro tip: do not read Down and Out in Paris and London over lunch.
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it’s often the case with books set in France, lol
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Looks like we both ended up with long books this time around. My spin novel is From Here to Eternity by James Jones which is over 800 pages. I’m currently reading Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor (972 pages), so it looks like I’ll be in Big Book Land for a while. Hope you enjoy The Sleepwalkers. I’ve never read it and look forward to hearing about it.
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Never heard of these – I’ll go comment on your blog. As you have read lots of German literature, I had hoped to get your opinion on this one, though it’s technically Austrian
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