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The Classics Club Spin #13

It’s time for yet another Classics Club Spin – and although I didn’t finish the last one, I’m going to jump ahead and get myself a new spin book so I don’t have to keep staring at Dracula. I’ve thrown in a couple choices that mean I can read with someone else, but if you see we have a book in common, let me know and I’ll juggle around my list so we can read together, if you like!

Onto the list:

  1. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  2. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  3. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  4. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  5. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  6. The Plague – Albert Camus
  7. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  8. White Fang – Jack London
  9. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  10. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  11. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  12. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  13. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  15. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  16. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
  17. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  18. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  19. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  20. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth

Update: I’ll be reading Tristram Shandy.

 

Classics Club Spin #12

So, I’m going to do a very belated Classics Club spin – I haven’t peeked at the number yet, so I’m just going to run with a slightly altered list from the last spin, just emitting a couple of the hardest books (no way I can commit during this time) and dropping off the one I have read.

  1. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  3. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  4. White Fang – Jack London
  5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
  6. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  7. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Borowski
  8. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  9. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  10. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  11. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  12. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  13. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  15. The Plague – Albert Camus
  16. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  17. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  18. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  19. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  20. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Classics Club Spin 11

Classics Club is doing another #CCSpin and I am here and ready for it! I have cultivated a list of 20 fine works that I am looking forward to reading and dreading in equal measure. If you are interested in joining in, or want more information on The Classics Club – go check out their blog, it’s a great community of classics readers who also happen to post reviews. (Although I am slack at that. I’m going to have to do a series of mini-reviews I think!)

Onto the list!

  1. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  3. Agnes Grey – Anne Bront
  4. White Fang – Jack London
  5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
  6. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  7. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  8. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  9. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  10. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  11. Ulysses – James Joyce
  12. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  13. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  15. The Plague – Albert Camus
  16. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  17. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  18. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  19. Dispatches – Michael Herr
  20. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

There is a couple in there that scare the bejesus out of me (Middlemarch, Tristram Shandy, Tess, Ulysses, Night and Day), but some that I would be very excited to read (Agnes Grey, Dracula, Brave New World, Catch 22, Dispatches, Get Shorty). Lets see how this pans out, shall we!