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The Classics Club
2020-2025
The Classics Spin #25
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before Sunday, November 22nd, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday November 22nd, 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 January 30, 2020.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 3rd list of 50 classics (I basically just chose the 20th oldest).
I am including Japanese classics, as it will coincide with next Japanese Literature Challenge. (January-March)
I didn’t have time to read the boo I got for Spin #24, but I hope to do so soon.
| 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 | Natsume Soseki | Kusamakura (1906) |
| 7 | Natsume Soseki | The Miner (1908) |
| 8 | Robert Walser | Jakob von Gunten (1909) |
| 9 | Natsume Soseki | To the Spring Equinox and Beyond (1910) |
| 10 | Jun’ichiro Tanizaki | Devils in Daylight (1918) |
| 11 | A. A. Milne | The Red House Mystery (1922) |
| 12 | Edna Ferber* | So Big (1924) |
| 13 | Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924) |
| 14 | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky | The Letter Killers Club (1926) |
| 15 | Dorothy L. Sayers* | Clouds of Witness (1926) |
| 16 | Owen Barfield | History in English Words (1926) |
| 17 | Stefan Zweig | Confusion (1927) |
| 18 | Josephine Tey* | The Man in the Queue (1929) |
| 19 | Virginia Woolf* | A Room of One’s Own (1929) |
| 20 | Hermann Broch | The Sleepwalkers (1932) |
COME BACK ON MONDAY 23
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Words And Peace 
I started reading Tristram Shandy, but it was at a bad time and I felt like I was listening to my ex-husband talking non-stop, so dnf (for now). I loved Cyrano as a teenager (if you like tv adaptations, kind of, I’ll recommend watching The student prince with an excellent cast including Tara Fitzgerald, it’s a lovely modern adaptation with a variation). I haven’t read the others but would love to read A room of one’s own very soon. Ah, if we were paid to read, wouldn’t it be great ? Enjoy your very good selection.
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thanks for the recommendation about Cyrano, I had not heard of it. But the recent Cyrano My Love is fabulous!!
Some companies do pay when you review a book, but not too many do that for now
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I don’t know that I’ve read any of these! Maybe the Virginia Woolf one in high school…
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It may be a challenging read, we’ll see
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I wonder what you will be reading!
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I can’t wait to know!
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No. 1 draws me as I meant to read it this year and didn’t get to it. #15 would be good too. I read an adaptation of Cyrano and it was hilarious; I’ve always wondered if the original is as funny. In any case, have a wonderful spin and I hope you get the perfect book!
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I have already read Cyrano a long time ago and watched it too. Yes, the original has very funny passages! I read another one by Sayers that I didn’t like, so that’s like second chance
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I was halfway through your interesting list before I found one that I had read, but I’ve only read four in total. I wasn’t too impressed with the Freeman Wiils Crofts but enjoyed numbers 11, 15 and 18. I hope you get one that you really enjoy.
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Thanks! #11 would be neat, yes
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That’s a fabulous list, I think. I’ve only read one from the list—Room of One’s Own. I’d like to read several others including Edna Ferber’s So Big.
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Yes, I can’t believe I haven’t read it yet. I actually did parts of it, both in English and French, as a translation exercise I did for myself
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I thought Sleepwalkers was very good, though it’s longish, and Tristram Shandy is crazy but a lot of fun. But I hope you get Letter Killers Club, which I own but haven’t read yet, to see what you think.
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I feel bad I haven’t read Sleepwalkers, which was supposed to be my last spin!! It would be fun to get it again this time. Good to know that Tristram Shandy was fun
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This is a great list, Emma! Any of these books would be a fantastic read, but I am rooting for the German language authors – Broch, Zweig, Walser – and the Brazilian Machado de Assis. These authors are brilliant! Happy reading 🙂
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Yes, high time for me to finally read Zweig!!
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I haven’t read any of the books on your list… Good Grief! I am such a novice with the Classics. Don’t worry, I’ll catch up somewhere!
Good luck and here’s my Elza Reads #CCSpin 25
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Before I joined The Classics Club, I thought I had read many classics. And then I discovered lists by others, and it’s not unusual for me either that most titles I have never heard of! So I think we may all be novice here, which is the beauty of the club, you can discover so many more titles, from so many countries
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I haven’t read any of your list, though I may have read the Dorothy Sayers – I had a run on hers many years ago. Good luck!
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I’m actually looking forward to this one, to get reconciled with her, as I didn’t like much volume 1
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Wow that is a seriously impressive list, Emma! I haven’t heard of a lot of these, let alone read them! From what I’ve heard though Dorothy L. Sayers sounds good, so I think it would be fun if that was your result, but a Japanese classic would of course suit your reading plans perfectly. Good luck! 🤞😃
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I was very disappointed I didn’t like the first one in the series by Dorothy Sayers, she’s such a big name in that genre. So hopefully volume 2 will reconcile me with her
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I hope so! 🤞
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😉
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So Big was so good! I read it a few years ago for a spin 😊
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I visited a lot of members’ spin lists yesterday, and when I looked at what I liked on their lists, that corresponded several times to #12, which would correspond to this title for me, so we’ll see, it could be a sign 😉
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I’ve only read one of these, Tristram Shandy, and it wasn’t a favorite. *sigh* Your blog always makes me wish I’d stuck with French c’est la vie
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It’s never too late to learn French for reading. Reading French is easy actually. I give online French classes for that, through Skype or Zoom, let me know if you are interested
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I’m fairly certain I will pick it up again someday, but right now is not the time. Thank you for the offer though. 🙂
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You are welcome
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I’ve only read So Big by Edna Ferber, which I enjoyed very much, and A Room of One’s Own, which was for a book club. I haven’t read much Virginia Woolf but I enjoyed it also.
I have read other books by Josephine Tey and Dorothy Sayers and liked both of them, so fingers crossed you get a good one!
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Thanks!
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I loved Cyrano de Bergerac, The Red House Mystery and A Room of One’s Own, but I haven’t read any of the others on your list. I hope you get something you enjoy!
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I did! Announcement on Monday
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A Room of One’s Own is on my list too. Best wishes on your spin, I hope you get something exciting!
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I did, see my post on Monday
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I’ve never heard of the Owen Barfield title but that one’s intriguing to me!
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I have heard lots of good things about it
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I’m intrigued by some of the msyteries!
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Yes, some classic mysteries are so in need of being rediscovered
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Even if it doesn’t get picked, you really should read The Red House Mystery – it is SUCH fun!
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Yes, it’s on my list, so I will eventually get to it
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It is quite a fast read, actually.
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Great
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