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The Classics Club
2020-2025
The Classics Spin #29
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before Sunday, March 20, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday March 20, 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 April 30, 2022.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 3rd list of 50 classics.
A lot of mysteries
| 1 | Italo Calvino | The Baron in the Trees |
| 2 | Marcel Allain | Fantômas |
| 3 | Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) = reread |
| 4 | Machado de Assi | Dom Casmurro (1899) |
| 5 | Robert Walser | Jakob von Gunten (1909) |
| 6 | A. A. Milne | The Red House Mystery (1922) |
| 7 | Edna Ferber* | So Big (1924) |
| 8 | Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924) |
| 9 | Dorothy L. Sayers* | Clouds of Witness (1926) |
| 10 | Stefan Zweig | Confusion (1927) |
| 11 | Josephine Tey* | The Man in the Queue (1929) |
| 12 | Eric Ambler | Epitaph for a Spy (1938) |
| 13 | Cornell Woolrich | The Bride Wore Black (1940) |
| 14 | various authors | The Floating Admiral (1931) |
| 15 | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep (1939) |
| 16 | Antal Szerb | The Pendragon Legend (1934) |
| 17 | Jean Giono | Le chant du monde (1934) |
| 18 | Rex Stout | Fer-de-Lance (1934) |
| 19 | Daphne du Maurier* | Jamaica Inn (1935) |
| 20 | Sinclair Lewis | It Can’t Happen Here (1935) |
COME BACK ON MONDAY 21
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Words And Peace 
This sounds like fun, and I’m curious to see which book wins 😁
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Have you read any?
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Some great choices there – happy spinning! I have read the Calvino, de Assis, Milne, Sayers, Croft, Tey, Stout and The Floating Admiral – some longer ago than others, but all great!
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Cool! Not too many know about The Floating Admiral
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I have Jamaica Inn on my shelf and I am excited to read it. There are a number of books, like Jamaica Inn, that I want to read, but I am thinking of choosing some of them in the Fall, especially in October.
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I would definitely like to have number 19!
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Interesting list. I love Calvino but haven’t read your #1, I have read Robert Walser, again not this one. And A.A. Milne. Who hasn’t read “Winnie the Pooh”. Stefan Zweig, again read something else by him. And I read a Maigret story by Raymond Chandler. Daphne du Maurier’s books are still on my wish list. So, I will be looking forward to your reviews.
Thanks for visiting my list.
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A Maigret story by Raymond Chandler?
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Good point. I wasn’t myself. Forget about it, haven’t read Raymond Chandler. LOL
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It could have been a fascinating idea though.
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Indeed. That gives me another idea, what if someone had written a novel from another author? LOL
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Hmm, looking forward to see what you are going to do with that thought, lol
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Still working on it.
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I hope it’s Jamaica Inn, I haven’t read it but I don’t think you can go wrong with DdM!
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Exactly. I really enjoy the two other books I read by her
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I had to come see what your number 16 is! I don’t know anything about it, either… but I might have to look it up based on the title. I love Arthurian legend. Number 20 is on my CC list and number six is waiting in my Kindle. Thanks for visiting me and good luck on the spin!
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Nice that we have some in common!
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I’ve read So Big, Jamaica Inn, and Fer-de-Lance (though it was a very long time ago). So Big is very good but I have a particular fondness for Chicago, where I lived for about 10 years. I’ve also loved most everything by Stefan Zweig but I haven’t read that one yet. Beware of Pity is on my list which I’ve had unread forever, so I really hope I get that one. Good luck with your spin pick!
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Yes, so many good titles to pick from! I actually live in a Chicago suburb
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I’ve only read The Red Mystery House. So sorry he never wrote more adult fiction.
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Yes!
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Nice list…enjoy!
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Thanks
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Raymond Chandler seems like it would be up my alley.
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Yes! Am even surprised you haven’t read anything by him yet
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I read Jamaica Inn last year–it was great! I wasn’t sure what I’d think. No pressure at all–I do not always want to read reviews before I read a book., but here is my review IF you are interested only: https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/daphne-du-maurier-reading-week-review-jamaica-inn/
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I have loved 2 books by Du Maurier, and definitely want to get to this one soon
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I love, love, love! The Baron in the Trees. Several other good ones on there. I’ll be curious if you get the Zweig: I like him but haven’t read that one.
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I love Calvino a lot, not sure why I haven’t read this one yet!!
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