#Classic Club Spin # 32
Claude Monet
What is the spin?
- Compile list of 20 books by December 11 2022.
- Try to challenge yourself!
- The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number
- on your Spin List by the 29th January, 2023.
- Hashtag: #ccspin
- I have chosen the first 20 books from my Classic club List (50 books)
My List:
- 1970: 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
- 1970: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
- 1927: Death Comes for the Archbishop – W. Cather
- 1963: The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- 1963: Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- 1969: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou –> READING !!
- 1819: Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
- 1895: Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- 1905: The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- 1854: North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- 1958: The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- 1924: A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- 1961: Revolutionary Road – R. Yates
- 1942: The Stranger – Albert Camus
- 1887: A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1958: Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- 1962: We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
- 1859: The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- 1943: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- 1927: To the Lighthouse – V. Woolf
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NancyElin 
Great list Nancy. Wounded Knee was one of the first books about telling the real story about what happened to First Nations peoples that I read in my twenties. It made me question what out own First Nations people had also gone through.
84 Charing Cross Road is just delightful and I loved The Woman in White (there’s a great old movie starring Sydney Greenstreet and Agnes Moorehead by the by). North and South also has a wonderful BBC series to enjoy once you read the book. A Passage to India felt important when I read it but I wonder if it has dated?
So many comments about my list…thanks so much. I cherrypicked lists including Modern Library’s Best 100 novel of 20th C and Pulitzer Prize winners for Fiction. Modern List = I’ll post it as a page and I see I’ve read 55 books already. There are multiple selections by Henry James that I do not think fair. There are other great writers to highlight. I am not a fan of HJ and will replace his books with some other author. How in heavens name The Ginger Man by Irish author J. Donleavy ever made the list is beyond me. It was smutty “gutter” fiction ….just an awful read. I suppose he was just out to shock readers! QUESTION: My new Classics Club Reading List…it there a place on the CC website where I can put my blog post ?
Nancy, use the new member form to send in the details for your new list here – https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/members/join-the-classics-club/
I’m doing my first one after a couple of spins away as well. Glad to see you decided to!
I also thought The Woman in White is awfully good, and Death Comes for the Archbishop is a favorite of mine. Hope you get something good!
I haven’t read Willa Cather since high-school, “My Antonia”.
Moonstone by Wilkie Collins was very entertaining…kept me guessing “who dunnit”. Looking forward to reading both authors again.
Things Fall Apart and We Have Always Lived in the Castle are on my spin list also. All of your books are good. I loved The Woman in White and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn although I did not find them easy reads.
Feels strange getting back to the classics…after a few years reading a lot of books about politics, racism in USA and other NF books.
I just finished 84, Charing Cross Road and loved it! Hope you’re able to read it soon!
Looking forward to that book! I’m not a fan of
Ms Woolf..so that will be a chore with “To the Lighthouse”.
Thanks for your comment.