What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 11th Decmber, 2022, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List. On December 11th a number will be draw and you match it up to the book on your list. Read all the information here at The Classics
My List
I change my list up so that the books are doable for the time period. I can’t always do a huge book–even on audio right now. I’ve read through many, many of the best known “classics” already so I’m stretching a little on what I call a “classic.” My list, my choices, lol.
- A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
- Miss Buncle’s Book by DE Stevenson
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (Serial Reader)
- 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
- Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Mornings in Mexico by DH Lawrence
- The Glass Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- Portrait of a Marriage by Vita Sackville West
- Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Serial Reader)
- Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter
- Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
- O! Pioneers by Willa Cather (Serial Reader)
- Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Mariana by Monica Dickens
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Are you participating in this Spin? Leave me a link to your post or just leave a comment.
I loved Three Men in a Boat; and in a different way Lost Horizon. Both much recommended. Hope you enjoy whichever is picked!
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I loved Three Men in a Boat too and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Light Years and Whose Body? Here’s the link to my list – https://booksplease.org/2022/12/07/classics-club-spin-18/
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Definitely “my list, my choice” — I’m a bit loose with my definition of a classic, but I think it’s in the eye of the beholder. 🙂 Looks like we have a couple in common — can’t wait to see how the spin turns out!
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Good idea to think about what would be doable depending on what else is happening in your life at the time. Wish I’d taken that into account with my own list for I fear I have too many fat books.
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I haven’t read any of these, and the only book I know is Picnic at Hanging Rock because I watched the newest TV series recently. My list will be posted just before the stroke of Sunday morning…
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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a personal favourite, so I hope tou spin that 🙂
But I also enjoyed House of Mirth (spoiler alert, it’s not funny!)
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Good to hear!
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