Who can resist a CC Spin? I can’t, even though I have very spotty success, I did finish the last two I entered. And since three is a charm I am back for more!
The Bare-Bones Basics:
- Go to your Classics Club list.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday, 18th September.
- They will announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 30 October, 2022.
- If you need more information on the Spin go here. If you don’t know and want to know, “What in the heck is the Classics Club?” Go here.
I am hoping for the Thackeray, Woolf, or either of the Cathers, but I chose all 20 especially from my list, so any would be fine.
And here is my list:
Fanny Burney
1. Evelina (1778)
Willa Cather
2. My Antonia (1918)
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Charles Dickens
4. Bleak House (1852)
George Eliot
5. The Mill on the Floss (1860)
6. Middlemarch (1871)
Gustave Flaubert
7. Madame Bovary (1856)
William Dean Howells
8. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1884)
Elizabeth Gaskell
9. Mary Barton (1848)
George Gissing
10. The Odd Women (1893)
Thomas Hardy
11. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
12. The Major of Casterbridge (1886)
Aldus Huxley
13. Brave New World (1932)
George Meredith
14. The Egoist (1879)
John Steinbeck
15. Sweet Thursday (1954)
William Thackeray
16. Vanity Fair (1847)
HG Wells
17. The War in the Air (1908)
Emma Wolf
18. Other Things Being Equal (1892)
Virginia Woolf
19. The Voyage Out (1915)
20. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Relevant Obscurity 
Lots of great titles! I like Evelina even though she doesn’t do anything, and Middlemarch is wonderful. And so is Madame Bovary! Oooo, so many good ones…
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I am in a chunkster mode, so any of those sound good to me!
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Nice list! Quite a few of these are books I want to read as well. I have read The Mayor of Casterbridge and really liked it. I have tried some Virginia Woolf and struggled with her fiction. I read Mrs. Dalloway and tried to read The Waves. I have read A Room of One’s Own and liked it but it’s non-fiction. 🙂
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Thanks Karen. You’ve read a lot here! I’m sure I will like whatever I get.🤞
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A nice list! Bleak House is amazing if you get it!
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This is certainly one I am hoping for 👍
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Although I’m not doing the club any more I always have fun rooting for others to finish their Spin. I have read about half of these. Of the ones I haven’t, I would most want to read Death Comes for the Archbishop. I hope you get something that you enjoy.
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I found a beautiful copy of Death Comes for the Archbishop and I really should just read it!
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If you get Middlemarch it could well be the push for me to stop stalling on it a chapter or so in and join you!
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We should just read it!
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