The Classics Club Spin, that is. I don’t mind which book comes up in the Spin as they are all books I’d like to read. I quite fancy reading one of Dickens’ books this summer and can’t decide which one! And that is why I’ve included five of his books in the list.
Here are the rules:
* List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list.
* Number them from 1 to 20.
* Next Monday (August 11th) the Classics Club will announce a number.
* This is the book you need to read by October 6th.
Here’s my list:
- Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon by Jane Austen – her first full-length novel
- Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore
- Out of Africa by Karen Blixen – I’ve been meaning to read this ever since I saw the film, which is only loosely based on the book.
- No Name by Wilkie Collins – because I liked The Moonstone and The Woman in White
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford – I liked the TV series with Benedict Cumberbatch so much, I hope I like the book!
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E M Forster
- The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Barchester Towers (Barsetshire Chronicles, #2) by Anthony Trollope
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf – her first novel
I think that you’re the first person (other than me) who has Travels with a Donkey in Cevennes on their CC list! I love Edith Wharton’s works and Out of Africa is just excellent!
Best of luck with your Spin!
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Thanks Cleo, it’s good to know Out of Africa is excellent. I hope I’ll read it soon even if it doesn’t come up in the Spin.
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I loved Barchester Towers (just read it in June/July) & I agree with Cleo about Out of Africa. I read it last year.
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Christine, I’ve been meaning to read Barchester Towers ever since I read The Warden a while ago – I really liked that book.
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Well, I’m reading The Watsons as part of my Austen in August list, and I loved both Lady Susan and Sanditon. So interesting to speculate on how she might have proceeded with her unfinished works.
May the odds be ever in your favor, and with a list like this, you cannot lose.
You’ve got some of my favorites on your list, and I’ve been meaning to read Out of Africa for decades now! I read Travels with a Donkey a couple of years ago–some interesting parts but overall a bit of a sleeper.
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Jane, I didn’t know about Jane Austen’s first book until I began blogging – it’ll be interesting to see her early work.
Shame that Travels with a Donkey is a ‘bit of a sleeper’ – I like the idea of this book and have liked Stevenson’s other books that I’ve read.
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Good luck! I loved both No Name and Barchester Towers. I hope you get one of the Dickens books, though, if that’s what you fancy reading.
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Thanks, Helen – as Jane said I don’t think I can lose with this list and that is what I like about the Spin – the decision of what to read next is easy, although if I don’t get a Dickens then I’ll probably read one anyway. 🙂
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Margaret – What a fun and interesting way to to choose your next classic read! And I like the way you’ve put your focus on Dickens. I’ll be interested in finding out which one you read.
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Like Cleo, I’m excited to see Wharton & Out of Africa on your list. I hope you get one of those, or of course a Dickens, since that’s your personal preference. 🙂
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We share the Age of Innocence if 19 spins around. It will be a reread for me, so I know I will love it already 🙂
Good luck on Monday.
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I have several of these books on my list too! Good luck!
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Just about any of these would make me happy, but 19 is a favorite. Good luck!
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I loved “Pickwick Papers” and hope to read it again soon.
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