It's time for another Classics Club Spin!
But wait. What, you might ask, is the Classics Club?
From the blog:
- Choose 50+ classics you would like to read.
- List them at your blog.
- Choose a reading completion goal date up to five years in the future and note that date on your classics list of 50+ titles.
- E-mail the moderators of this blog (theclassicsclubblog@gmail.com) with your list link and information and it will be posted on the Members Page.
- Write about each title on your list as you finish reading it, and link it to your main list.
- When you’ve written about every single title, let the Club know, and your name will be posted on the Wall of Honor.
If you haven't done this, do this first. Then you can get going with your reading by joining in for our Classics Club Spin.
What is the Classics Club Spin? Again, from the blog:
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before next Sunday 22nd December.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 31st January 2020.
Here is my complete list:
All Passion Spent | Sackville-West, Vita | 1931 | Fiction | 174 pages |
Around the World in 80 Days | Verne, Jules | 1873 | Science fiction | 256 pages |
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar | Leblanc, Maurice | 1905 | Children's | 304 pages |
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The | Stein, Gertrude | 1933 | Biography | 238 pages |
Bell Jar, The | Plath, Sylvia | 1963 | Fiction | 190 pages |
Bleak House | Dickens, Charles | 1853 | Fiction | 800 pages |
Cloven Viscount, The | Calvino, Italo | 1959 | Fiction | 128 pages |
Cranford | Gaskell, Elizabeth | 1853 | Fiction | 192 pages |
Decameron, The | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1353 | Short stories | 554 pages |
Emperor of Ice Cream and Other Poems | Stevens, Wallace | 1954 | Poetry | 96 pages |
End of the Affair | Greene, Graham | 1951 | Fiction | 237 pages |
Essential Rumi, The | Rumi | 1240 | Poetry | 340 pages |
Family from One End Street, The | Garnett, Eve | 1937 | Children's | 212 pages |
Four Loves, The | Lewis, C. S. | 1958 | Spirituality | 180 pages |
Friday's Tunnel | Verney, John | 1959 | Children's | 263 pages |
FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry | Stavans, Ilan, ed. | 2011 | Poetry | 726 pages |
Good Man is Hard to Find, A | O'Connor, Flannery | 1955 | Short stories | 256 pages |
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years | Kacian, Jim, ed. | 2013 | Poetry | 424 pages |
Heat of the Day, The | Bowen, Elizabeth | 1948 | Fiction | 372 pages |
In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way | Proust, Marcel | 1927 | Fiction | 285 pages |
Japanese Fairy Tales | Ozaki | 1903 | Folk tales | 256 pages |
Jungle Book, The | Kipling, Rudyard | 1894 | Children's | 433 pages |
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | Green, Roger | 1953 | Folk tales | 330 pages |
Maigret | Simenon, Georges | 1934 | Mystery | 144 pages |
Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair | 1920 | Fiction | 368 pages |
Man and Superman | Shaw, George Bernard | 1903 | Play | 208 pages |
Moby Dick | Melville | 1852 | Fiction | 463 pages |
My Friend Mr. Leakey | Haldane, J.B.S. | 1937 | Children's | 149 pages |
My Sweet Orange Tree | Mauro de Vasconcelos, Jose | 1968 | Children's | 262 pages |
Mystery of the Yellow Room | Leroux, Gaston | 1907 | Mystery | 236 pages |
No Exit | Sartre, Jean-Paul | 1944 | Play | 60 pages |
Orthodoxy | Chesterton, G. K. | 1908 | Philosophy | 100 pages |
Pursuit of Love, The | Mitford, Nancy | 1945 | Fiction | 247 pages |
Razor's Edge, The | Maugham, W. Somerset | 1944 | Fiction | 314 pages |
Right Ho, Jeeves | Wodehouse, P. G. | 1934 | Fiction | 248 pages |
Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, A | Newby, Eric | 1958 | Travel | 306 pages |
Stories | Chekhov, Anton | 1903 | Short stories | 384 pages |
Tale of Two Cities, A | Dickens, Charles | 1859 | Fiction | 307 pages |
Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie | Gibbs, May | 1940 | Children's | 224 pages |
Tom Brown's Schooldays | Hughes, Thomas | 1857 | Children's | 420 pages |
Travels in Asia and Africa | Battuta, Ibn | 1340 | Travel | 270 pages |
Vicar of Wakefield | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1766 | Fiction | 170 pages |
Washington Square | James, Henry | 1881 | Fiction | 248 pages |
We | Zamyatin, Yevgeni | 1924 | Science fiction | 224 pages |
Where Angels Fear to Tread | Forster, E. M. | 1905 | Fiction | 128 pages |
Wilderness Essays | Muir, John | 1920 | Nature | 296 pages |
Winter Book, A | Jansson, Tove | 1996 | Short stories | 208 pages |
Winter’s Tale, The | Shakespeare, William | 1611 | Play | 160 pages |
Wives and Daughters | Gaskell, Elizabeth | 1864 | Fiction | 583 pages |
Yellow Wallpaper | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | 1892 | Short stories | 29 pages |
Here are my twenty books for the spin:
1. A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
2. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
3. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
4. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
5. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
6. My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
7. The Family from One-End Street by Eve Garnett
8. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
10. A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
12. My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
13. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
14. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
15. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
16. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
17. The Family from One-End Street by Eve Garnett
18. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
19. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
20. A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Rationale: These books are all on a list of books called Mood-Boosting Books. I'm hoping to start 2020 off by reading these.
And the result? It's #13, and I shall be reading A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. I've found this book on audio, and I've already begun.
I've read Tove's Summer Book, but not yet the Winter, so I wish you that this spin :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm secretly hoping for Winter, too.
DeleteI love the thought of Mood-Boosting Books!
ReplyDeleteI think we could use a bit more of it here in my state.
DeleteI am impressed every year that you and others do the Classics Club since that genre just doesn't work for me. But, I love to read about your progress!
ReplyDeleteI wonder sometimes if I stretch the meaning of the word "classic" to encompass just about anything I want it to encompass.
DeleteWe know you: you'll probably just read every book on your list... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI just switched The Razor's Edge on my list so we'll have a spontaneous read-along if #14 comes up.
Haha! You are right.
DeleteWouldn't that be fun if the spin landed on 14!
Jeeves is always Mood-Boosting. Good luck! My list is here https://wordsandpeace.com/2019/12/18/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-22/
ReplyDeleteI've never read Jeeves, so I'd love to give that series a try.
DeleteYou’re very keen to read some of these since yiu have them in twice. I never thought of doing that to deal w Th th problem that I have only three books remaining to get to my 50
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought that was quite clever of me.
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