Time for another game of chance from the The Classics Club - to make a list of twenty unread titles from our list and on the 19th Aug one number will be chosen. The challenge is to read the book that corresponds to the number by Oct 1.
I had a feeling we would be due for another round of the spin soon after I came home - a reminder also that although I read last time's book, Westwood by Stella Gibbons , I haven't yet reviewed it and I really should do it very soon.
I had a feeling we would be due for another round of the spin soon after I came home - a reminder also that although I read last time's book, Westwood by Stella Gibbons , I haven't yet reviewed it and I really should do it very soon.
My Spin List
Five I really want to read
1. Possession by A S Byatt
2. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Germinal by Emile Zola
4. South Riding by Winifred Holtby
5. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
5. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Five I don't want to read right now
6. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
9. Washington Square by Henry James
10. Vanity Fair by William M Thackeray
Five from favourite authors
11. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
12. No Name by Wilkie Collins
13. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
14. Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
15. Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Five by authors I haven't read before
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
17. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
18. The Odd Women by George Gissing
19. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
20. A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipal
Let the wheel spin!
I love your second category :) I'm really looking forward to seeing what number turns up.
ReplyDeleteHoping it's not 6 - 10. Something short and easy would be my wish.
DeleteI started Germinal in April...it remains unfinished on my shelf...
ReplyDeleteI really liked The Return of the Native...now a fan of Thomas Hardy!
You have several that are on my TBR list...
Happy reading and I hope you get the spin number you desire! :)
Love Thomas Hardy - would be very happy if that one was chosen. Germinal I vowed to read this year but still haven't got to it.
DeleteSouth is really one of the books that changed my life. Edith Wharton is one of my favourite authors too! *hugh five* I have a lot of Trollope on my own Classics Club list, I want to go through the Palliser series in order, so starting with Can You Forgive Her? which I hadn't realised was so massive until just now (900 pages). Have you read this one? Which book's your favourite Trollope?
ReplyDeleteI only discovered AT last year so have only read The Warden & Barchester Towers - loved both of them. Had thought I might finish that series this year but not making any progress at all.
DeleteWhat a good selection! Good luck, I hope you get a good one. I would be really excited to get To the Lighthouse because I personally love it but you definitely have to be in the mood for it. I think I'll be putting some Wilkie on my list too.
ReplyDeleteI do want to read To the Lighthouse but not right now - I really need something short and simple so keeping my fingers crossed.
DeleteIt's lovely to see you again, and to find you spinning. I'd pick Byatt, Gaskell, Collins for you. Or maybe The Odd Women, because that book has been on my 'must read soon' list for ages. I hope the spin works well for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jane - good to be back. I'd be happy with your choices and The Odd Women has also been on my shelf for too long.
DeleteGerminal and The Brothers Karamazov are both on my list too!
ReplyDeleteNot sure I want to read either of them at the moment but if the spin thinks otherwise so be it. :-)
DeleteWe have a few books in common! Great list, you make me now want to add Possession to my original list, I forgot about that one....
ReplyDeleteI'm constantly reorganising my list after spotting books on other bloggers lists. All good fun! Possession has been waiting tbr for a while.
DeleteYou have a really interesting list. Good luck with the spin!
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