The Classics Club: Spin the Wheel and See What We Shall Read

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.