The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #33

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The Classics Club
2022-2027

The Classics Spin #33

Time for a new spin!

At your blog, before Sunday, March 19, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

On Sunday March 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 April 30, 2023.

Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 4th list of 150 classics.
In this list of 20, the first 3 titles are books on my physical book shelves, and ll the rest are mysteries.

1 Edgar Allan Poe Major Tales (1849)
2 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3 MIchel Tournier Vendredi (1969)
4 Rudolph Fisher The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (1932)
5 Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep (1939)
6 Freeman Wills Crofts Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
7 Anthony Berkeley The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
8 Brian Flynn The Billiard Room Mystery (1927)
9 Patricia Wentworth Grey Mask (1928)
10 Andredi Platonov The Foundation Pit (1930)
11 Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (1930)
12 John Dickson Carr It Walks By Night (1930)
13 Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning The Invisible Host (1930)
14 various authors The Floating Admiral (1931)
15 Francis Iles/Anthony Berkeley Malice Aforethought (1931)
16 Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man (1934)
17 E. C. R. Lorac The Murder on the Burrows (1932)
18 John Dickson Carr Hag’s Nook (1932)
19 Alice Campbell The Click of the Gate (1932)
20 Ethel Lina White Some Must Watch (1933)

COME BACK ON MONDAY MARCH 20
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
PLEASE SHARE YOUR OWN LIST!

MY FULL LIST IS HERE

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The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #31

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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!

MY FULL LIST IS HERE

The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #30

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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?

MY FULL LIST IS HERE