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The Classics Club
2022-2027
The Classics Spin #31
Time for a new spin!
At your blog, before Sunday, September 18, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday September 19, 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 October 30, 2022.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my brand new 4th list of 150 classics.
In this list of 20, I have included books on my physical book shelves (pink), 3 books I’d like to read for The 1929 Club, and the rest is mostly novellas I’d like to read for Novellas in November.
| 1 | Edgar Allan Poe | Major Tales (1849) |
| 2 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Selected Poems (1899-1926) |
| 3 | Upton Sinclair | The Jungle (1906) |
| 4 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) |
| 5 | Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway (1925) |
| 6 | MIchel Tournier | Vendredi (1969) |
| 7 | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury (1929) |
| 8 | Anthony Berkeley | The Piccadilly Murder (1929) |
| 9 | Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) |
| 10 | George Eliot | The Lifted Veil (1859) |
| 11 | Paul Gallico | The Snow Goose (1941) |
| 12 | Nikolai Leskov | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) |
| 13 | John Buchan | The 39 Steps (1915) |
| 14 | Italo Calvino | The Cloven Viscount (1952) |
| 15 | Rudolph Fisher | The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (1932) |
| 16 | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep (1939) |
| 17 | Henry Van Dyke | The Story of the Other Wise Man (1895) |
| 18 | Adolfo Bioy Casares | Where There’s Love, There’s Hate (1946) |
| 19 | Mikhail Bulgakov | A Dog’s Heart (1925) |
| 20 | Alexander Grin | Scarlet Sails (1922) |
COME BACK ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
PLEASE SHARE YOUR OWN LIST!
Words And Peace 
Great list! I hope you get Where There’s Love, There’s Hate – I thought it was brilliant!
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Ah thanks. I discovered this author recently, with The Invention of Morel, and was very impressed
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What an ambitious list! I’ll be rooting for you!
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Which book do you wish me to get?
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I love Paul Gallico’s books. I think I have read the majority of them. The Snow Goose is a great little book.
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Oh nice! Completely terra incognita for me
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I liked the one about the apes on Gibraltar and the one about the boxing kangaroo. It’s been a while since I read the Snow Goose, but is that the one that involves the retreat from Dunkirk? He also wrote The Poseidon Adventure, which was turned into a movie, and its sequel, as well as ghost stories. Since he never stuck to one genre, each book is a treat.
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Yes it is, I see Dunkirk is mentioned in he settings of the book.
Good to know about this author and the various genres he wrote in, thanks!
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When I get a chance, I will look up the titles of some of his other books, that I have read. In the one about the apes of Gibraltar, he gives some background of the history of the peninsula. The book is the story of one of the apes.
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Thanks for doing it in another challenge, I much appreciate your data on this
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“The Snow Goose” is kind of sad.
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Well, when you see Dunkirk, it doesn’t forebode too well…
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The book about the apes on Gibraltar is called “Scruffy”. The book about the boxing kangaroo is “Matilda”. His Mrs. Harris books were made into a movie or a TV series. And Thomasina was made into a movie with Hailey Mills. He wrote a few sports books, a book about a plane in WWII and the story of St. Patrick.
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Ah yes, Thomasina rings a bell
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Ellery Queen is a favourite of mine too. I have read The Roman Hat Mystery.
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So many good titles here I guess
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Interesting list!! I’ve only read The Jungle from among your picks, although I have read quite a few Poe stories. Looking forward to seeing what you end up reading!
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Well, I ended up with German poetry.
I have also read several stories by Poe, but nothing systematic yet
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Oh wow, poetry? That’s totally beyond me, but I hope you enjoy it!
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Yes, I do enjoy a few poets – though I have problems with most English speaking poets, that I find too verbose. I prefer short verses, or rhyming verses. There are too many American poets I don’t even feel it’s poetry
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You’ve clearly put a lot of thought into your list. I’m afraid Faulkner didn’t work for me
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I know lots of people don’t like this one. But I really enjoyed As I Lay Dying, so am really curious about this one
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I’ll keep an eye out for your reactions
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It’s probably going to be in 2023. Oh no, of course it will be next month, for The 1929 club!
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These events come around so quickly don’t they.
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It’s actually just that I had forgotten it was published in 1929 and that I had already scheduled it for the 1929 club
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Ah, we have The Lifted Veil in common! But mine is at #6 and yours at #10. Best of luck with your spin!
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Oh I se you got Gaskell, better for you, not really my cup of tea. I much prefer Rilke!
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I’m glad you like Rilke, but I could never review poetry… Enjoy!
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Ah yes, the review part will be tough!
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I see you got Rilke. I have never read anything by him, but should do. So up on my classic list it will go. I gott Willa Carter’s Death of an Archbishop. Wanted to read something by her a long time. I think it is short enough to manage this time.
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Nice, that’s a good one. Though I prefer My Antonia. I have Shadows on the Rock by he on my 4th list
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