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The Classics Club
2020-2025
The Classics Spin #30
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before Sunday, June 12, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday June 12, 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 August 7, 2022.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 3rd list of 50 classics.
It might indeed be a challenge, as I made a list not counting any of the 20 books I’m supposed to read for the 20 books of summer challenge.
| 1 | Antal Szerb | Journey by Moonlight (1937) |
| 2 | Antal Szerb | The Pendragon Legend (1934) |
| 3 | Charles Williams | Descent into Hell (1937) |
| 4 | Colette | Sido |
| 5 | Cornell Woolrich | The Bride Wore Black (1940) |
| 6 | Daphne du Maurier* | Jamaica Inn (1935) |
| 7 | Eric Ambler | Epitaph for a Spy (1938) |
| 8 | Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924) |
| 9 | George Orwell | Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) |
| 10 | Italo Calvino | The Baron in the Trees |
| 11 | Jean Giono | Le chant du monde (1934) |
| 12 | Machado de Assi | Dom Casmurro (1899) |
| 13 | Marcel Allain | Fantômas |
| 14 | R. C. Sherriff | The Hopkins Manuscript (1939) |
| 15 | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep (1939) |
| 16 | Rex Stout | Fer-de-Lance (1934) |
| 17 | Robert Walser | Jakob von Gunten (1909) |
| 18 | Sinclair Lewis | It Can’t Happen Here (1935) |
| 19 | Stefan Zweig | Confusion (1927) |
| 20 | various authors | The Floating Admiral (1931) |
COME BACK ON MONDAY JUNE 13
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Words And Peace 
That will indeed be challenging to have this added to the 20 books already on your summer reading list.
Dom Casmurro is a wild book!
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Oh oh, I’m even more curious about it now!
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Ooh! I see some titles on your list I will have to add to mine!
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That’s the danger with that type of meme, lol
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Nice list, and you have a lot of classic crime fiction on there. I hope you get the book by Rex Stout, because I would like to know what you think of it. I love it, I have read it many times, but then Rex Stout is my favorite author and I have read and reread all the books in the series.
I have not done my list yet, I better get moving on it. Good luck on the spin!
TracyK at Bitter Tea and Mystery.
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Thanks! Looking forward to your list
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The Pendragon Legend… hmmm. And I really shoud read Chandler at some point given my interest in pulp stories….
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Why the hmmm??
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Just curious since I do like Arthurian stuff. I haven’t heard of that one.
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Oh I see. And I can’t remember when and where I heard about this one
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Great choices. Jamaica Inn! I loved R. C. Sherriff’s Fortnight in September. Enjoy the spin. My list is up in the morning.
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Du Maurier would be great!
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I have read all of Rex Stout’s books too and many by Daphne du Maurier. I didn’t like The Floating Admiral. Most of the books by various authors, that I have read, don’t seem to appeal to me. Freeman Wills Crofts is good too.
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I would love to get Rex Stout for sure
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Ohhhh. I simply want you to get the whimsical The Baron in the Trees for selfish reasons, to hear what you think of it. I have not found any among us here that has read it.
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I love Calvino and would be definitely very happy with this one. I actually recently found a book blog review of it. Of course I can no longer find where!
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I have one LOL. I found it on my blog. I knew I had reviewed it.
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lol
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Good luck, my friend! I hope you get a good one (and brave of you not to include any of the 20 books of summer here)!
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we’ll see how this goes
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Some great authors on that list, though I haven’t read a single one of the books. I do wish that you get a great one.
Thanks for visiting my Classics Club Spin.
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Thanks!
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This is a great list! And also, thank you for visiting my blog!
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You are welcome
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You have got an interesting mix there. I recently read a few short stories by Cornell Woolrich, among them the one which Read Window was based on. He really writes ‘noir’ and I like them.
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I think I will read Rear Window after this
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