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 #28

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The Classics Club
2020-2025

The Classics Spin #28

Time for a new spin!

At your blog, before Sunday, October 17th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

On Sunday October 17, 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 December 12, 2021.

Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 3rd list of 50 classics.
4 of the following titles are nonfiction.
9 are mysteries.

1 Xavier de Maistre Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre (1794)
2 Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) = reread
3 Robert Walser Jakob von Gunten (1909)
4 A. A. Milne The Red House Mystery (1922)
5 Freeman Wills Crofts Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
6 Dorothy L. Sayers* Clouds of Witness (1926)
7 Stefan Zweig Confusion (1927)
8 Josephine Tey* The Man in the Queue (1929)
9 Virginia Woolf* A Room of One’s Own (1929)
10 Edmund Wilson Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931)
11 George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
12 Ngaio Marsh* A Man Lay Dead (1934)
13 Rex Stout Fer-de-Lance (1934)
14 Charles Williams Descent into Hell (1937)
15 Eric Ambler Epitaph for a Spy (1938)
16 Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep (1939)
17 Cornell Woolrich The Bride Wore Black (1940)
18 Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel (1940)
19 Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees
20 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse

COME BACK ON MONDAY 18
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?

MY FULL LIST IS HERE