It’s time for another Classics Club Spin. I’ve been hoping we’d get another Spin in before the end of the year and here it is.
The Spin rules:
- List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list.
- Number them from 1 to 20.
- On Friday 17th November the Classics Club will announce a number.
- This is the book to read by 31 December 2017.
This is my list:
- Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R D Blackmore
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Framley Parsonage (Barsetshire Chronicles, #4) by Anthony Trollope
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
It shouldn’t matter which one comes up as I do want to read these books – but ideally at this time of year I’d like it to be one of the shorter books on this list.
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That’s a shame! I was going to wish for ‘LittleDorrit’ for you because it is one of my favourite Dickens, but it is a bit on the long side. Better go with ‘Orlando’ then.
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Most of Dickens’ books are long – maybe that’s why I haven’t read many!
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Try Great Expectations. That’s reasonably short.
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I’ve read Great Expectations more than once many years ago and enjoyed it. Maybe I’ll get round to re-reading it one day.
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I’d completely forgotten I want to read #15 until I saw your list. :) I hope you get either #6 or #9. I don’t know how short they are, but I bet they are good. If you get one of those, I’ll be reading either This Side of Paradise or A Farewell to Arms. :)
Good luck!
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I’ve been thinking about reading Birdsong ever since I saw the TV adaptation – and had difficulty making out what the actors were saying!
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Ha! I saw that too & had the same problem! :) A good friend of mine highly recommends Birdsong.
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And I was going to wish for Nicholas Nickleby for you since I’ll be reading it too in December. I’ll go for Three Men in a Boat instead then – brilliant book! An all-time favourite!
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I’d be happy to read any of the Dickens’ books – just wish they weren’t so long.
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You do have a fine list of classics, Margaret. I wonder what you’ll think of it if you get One Hundred Years of Solitude. And you’ve got the Steinbeck on the list, too, I see. If you get that one, I really hope you’ll enjoy it.
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Thanks, Margot – this is why I like the Spin – I don’t have to decide which one to read first. :)
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You and me both! I’ve been waiting & nagging (via twitter).
We share a few authors this spin, but not any specific titles – I’m finding it harder to match each book to another blogger as my list gets smaller :-)
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The Gabriel García Márquez are on the longish size, but they read fast, and they are unforgettable. But there’s other dear titles in your list, so, I wish you good luck.
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Good luck with the Spin – I hope you get one of the shorter ones :-D
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Lovely list Margaret! I’m impressed with how many chunky tomes you’ve included! There are a lot of titles here that I want to read but that didn’t make my first CC master list. North and South and Far From the Madding Crowd are two of my favorites.
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