It's time for a Classics Club Spin!
The challenge
Create a post before next Sunday 21st July, 2024 that lists twenty books of your choice that remain "to be read" on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List - you have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.
On Sunday 21st July 2024 Classic Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by the 22nd September, 2024.
We'll check in here on Sunday the 22nd September to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
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! (The Classics Club)
My Book Spin List for the Classics Club -
I'm in my first year of the Classics Club and have read two off my list so far so I've simply taken the next books with the exception of The Thin Man (no.23) rather than Destination Unknown (no.22) on my list. So here is my spin list:-
1. (23.) The Thin Man by Samuel Dashiell Hammet | 1933 | 259pp
2. (21.) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | 1939 | 277pp
3. Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf | 1927 | 176pp
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen | 1817 | 288pp
5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | 210pp
6. Momentum Mori by Muriel Spark | 1959 | 225pp
7. The Rose and The Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott | 1947 | 184pp
8. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists & other essays by George Eliot | 1836 | 100pp
9. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan-Doyle | 1902 | 176pp
10. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe | 1841 | 56pp
11. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien | 1937 | 310pp
12. Orlando by Virginia Woolf | 1928 | 416pp
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | 438pp
14. Emma by Jane Austen | 1815 | 264pp
15. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico | 1940/1 | pp64
16. Hard Times by Charles Dickens | 1854 | 368pp
17. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 1818 | 288pp
18. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham | 1951 | 272pp
19. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon | 1956 | 160pp
20. The 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie | 1957 | 256pp
Well that's it!
What next?
I'll add a link to this page on the Classic Club page for spin #38. When the number is announced on Sunday, 21 July 2024 I'll then add the title to the comments section.
Whichever book correlates to the number announced I'll, hopefully, read and post my thoughts on it, adding that link to the Classic Club page, by Sunday, 22 September 2024.
Wish me luck!
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