Classic Club: Spin #19

It’s time for another Classic Club Spin.  I wasn’t going to participate this time around because I already have a few books lined up to read in the next few weeks. But then I noticed today that we have an extra long period in which to read the selected book.

So here we go with a list of 20 books remaining from my Classics Club list.  I don’t actually have 20 titles remaining from my original list – I am down to the last 13 in fact – so have had to add in a few extras just to make up the numbers.

Here is my list. I’ve tried to go for a mixture across centuries and geographies. The bulk are  from the twentieth century but I’ve included a smattering from eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also. Geographically, it’s a mix of British, French, American and Australian. Just to be patriotic I included  two titles by authors from Wales.

1. The Vicar of Wakefield  — Oliver Goldsmith 1766
2. The Black Sheep  — Honore Balzac 1842
3. Basil— Wilkie Collins 1852
4. Framley Parsonage — Anthony Trollope 1861
5. The Kill/La Curée – Emile Zola 1871-2
6. Daniel Deronda  — George Eliot 1876
7. New Grub Street— George Gissing 1891
8. My Brilliant Career — Miles Franklin  1901
9. O pioneers —  Willa Cather  1913
10. Gone to Earth  — Mary Webb 1917
11. Return of the Soldier  — Rebecca West 1917
12. Age of Innocence  — Edith Wharton 1920
13. The Last September —  Elizabeth Bowen 1929
14. All Passion Spent — Vita Sackville West 1932
15. Frost in May — Antonia White 1933
16. Old Soldiers Never Die— Frank Richards 1933
17. Turf or Stone  — Margiad Evans 1934
18. The Grapes of Wrath  — John Steinbeck 1939
19. Never No More— Maura Laverty 1942
20. The Quiet American  — Graham Greene 1955

Tomorrow we learn which of these titles I will be reading between now and the end of January 2019. I have a hankering for the Trollope, it seems just the right kind of book to be reading in front of a cosy fire. But otherwise I have no particular favourites.