The Classics Club is community of readers sharing our love for classic literature. Participants create a list of 50 or more classic lit titles that we agree to read within 5 years. A “Spin” is to take 20 titles you have not read from that list and number them 1-20. When the Spin gods choose a number your corresponding title is the book you will read and post about. For Spin #21 we are encouraged to post by October 31st.
The Classics Club is a wonderful way to meet like-mined classics lovers and have some fun. Yes….classic lit and fun CAN be in the same sentence 🙂
From the Classics Club website where you can get the full scoop on the Club and the Spin:
This is meant to be a fun, social way to read another book from your classics club list. We’re very relaxed about how you set it up, we simply want you to read more classics!
This Spin I am happy to say is a special one as I am only a few titles away from finishing my list, so I have chosen to repeat the titles I have not read on my list, instead of choosing any from my book shelf (can you say Frankenstein)?
Ok Spin gods…pick the monster, please 🙂
George Eliot
1. Middlemarch (1874)
E.M. Forster
2. Room with a View (1908)
Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Mary Barton (1848)
4. Wives and Daughters (1866)
Henry James
5. Portrait of a Lady (1881)
6. The Ambassadors (1903)
Mary Shelley
7. Frankenstein (1818)
H. G. Wells
8. First Men in the Moon (1901)
9. The Invisible Man (1897)
Virginia Woolf
10. To the Lighthouse (1927)
11. Frankenstein
12. Wives and Daughters
13. Frankenstein
14. First Men in the Moon
15. Frankenstein
16. Portrait of a Lady
17. Frankenstein
18. Middlemarch
19. Frankenstein
20. Room with a View
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Ha, ha! It looks like you and James are meant for each other! 😉
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I laughed SO hard when I saw this!!
But I am starting Frankenstein this weekend for RIP, so take THAT spin gods!!
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Sigh! I was hoping for Middlemarch as I’m experiencing an almost overwhelming desire to read it again. Also Mary Barton and Wives and Daughters are the two Gaskell’s that I haven’t read yet. Ah well, we’ll catch up with a common book at some point. And James is on my radar; I’m counting on you to help me appreciate him! 🙂
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Wow! This sounds soo much fun! I would LOVE to know more about this Classic Spin! ❤️
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I could be wrong but I get a little feeling you want to read Frankenstein??
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Hmm. I think you are very perceptive 😉
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I tell myself that so many times 🙂
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haha, now that is good self-care 😉
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I’m with Brian – read Frankenstein regardless! I read it last year for RIP for the first time…which is helping to inform my current modern day read of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein. I doubt I would be enjoying it anywhere near as much as I am without that read (& the bio I read about Mary Shelley & her mother).
Congrats on being so close to the end of your first cc list 🙂
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Frankenstein is on my RIP list this year, so I will read it, but I could kill three birds with one stone if I get it for the spin! haha 😉
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All of these sound good, but I’ll be kind and hope you get Frankenstein! I re-read it last year and realised I’d forgotten just what a wonderful book it is. However… I’m really hoping for number 9 for myself, which would then mean you were reading The Invisible Man, but that’s very good too, so I don’t feel bad for you… 😉
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I like Wells, so I wouldn’t be disappointed at all. 😉
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So you get your Frankenstein and I get one of my perennial favourites and rare rereads (Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers) here’s hoping it’s number 13…lucky for some.
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I have always found 13 to be auspicious in a good way. But in this case, Cathy, I hope MY monster wins!! 🙂
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Haha Laurie, as Frankenstein is one of my favourite books ever, I hope you get that one! Good luck with the Spin! 😀
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haha, Thanks for the luck. I’m not being too excessive here am I?!!
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I don’t think you can be too excessive when it comes to Frankenstein 😛
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If only Frankenstein had landed on no. 9! I’m hoping for that number for myself and a couple of others as we’re all have the same book in that slot. Good Luck Laurie!
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Ha! Best of luck to you, too!
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Well, in spite of it being close to Halloween and in spite of loving Frankenstein, I do hope you get …….. Middlemarch! I loved that book and have been itching to pick it up again for a second read. To The Lighthouse is awesome as well! BUT … I do hope you get the book you want! 🙂
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I have put off Middlemarch, because it feels so epic. “The greatest book in the English language.” Yikes! Maybe the spin gods should choose that one and make me read it? lol Either way I will have to read it before next September!
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These all seem like very worthy books. It is also very impressive that you are almost complete. I think that no matter what you spin, you should read Frankenstein soon.
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Yes. Frankenstein is actually on my RIP this year, so I will read it soon. Amazing, the classics I have never read!
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That’s a fun list! Good luck. 🙂
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You, too, Jean!
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This is definitely one way to do it, doubling up on titles. And congratulations on having the end in sight! I think I may have to extend my cut-off date beyond the end of 2020…
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It will be nice to finish…and then I will start another list. I take some comfort in never running out of books!
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My list is eternal and ongoing at this point…
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