Classics Club Spin #24
by N@ncy
I can’t look…..what is the number for #24 CC spin?
My list:
- Les années – Annie Ernaux – READ
- Rien où poser sa tête – Francoise Frenkel
- Je suis le carnet de Dora Maar – Brigitte Benkemoun
- La petit fille sur la banquiese – Adelaide Bon
- Et tu n’es pas revenu – Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Prix Lectrice Elle 2016)
- L’étrange défaite – Marc Bloch (French historian, resistance, written 1940…published 1946)
- I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey – Langston Hughes
- The Tradition – Jericho Brown (poetry)
- Nganajungu Yagu – C.P Green (Victorian Premier’s Prize Poetry 2020) (ALS Gold Medal 2020
- A Fool’s Errand: Creating the Nat Museum African American History and Culture – L. Bunch
- Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music – Archie Roach
- The Yield: A Novel – Tara June Winch
- Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland – P. Keefe
- Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For – Susan Rice
- The Sixth Man: A Memoir – C. Wallace
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to Border Wall in the Mind of America – G. Grandin
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
- Deacon King Kong – James McBride – SPIN!!
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK‘A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year’s best novels.’ The Washington Post
- North River – Pete Hamill (1935-2020)
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaisto (Booker Prize 2019)
What is the spin?
- Compile list of 20 books by Sunday 9th August.
- Try to challenge yourself.
- Deadline: 30 September ….finish book and review it
- Hashtag: #ccspin
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As always your lists are truly inspired with a healthy mix of French books, poetry & non-fiction from all around the world.
Books have been my saving grace this past few months (after a brief period early in Covid when I was too distracted). I hope they help you too xoxo
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Sorry that the list is not ‘classics’ but reading any kind of book is a victory for me!
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And for that I say huzzah!!
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It does look like a great list–I’ve not read any McBride so I’ll definitely be curious what you think.
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