Here’s how it works…
From our Classics Club list we have to choose 20 titles spread across categories of those:
- Five books we really really want to read
- Five we are hesitant or nervous about reading
- Five we are neutral about
- Five free choice ( favourite author for example)
The choices need to be numbered 1-20. On Monday we get to know which number turned up in the spin and we have to read book corresponding book by January.
So here is my list…
- Evelina by Frances Burney
- Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
- The invisible Man by H G Wells
- Scoop by Evelyn Waug
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- L’Assommoire by Emile Zola
- The Power and the Glory by Grahame Greene
- Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Candide by Voltaire
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Old Gariot by Honore Balzac
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford
I suppose out of all of them the one that I would least like to have selected is Robinson Crusoe. I’m told my Mr BookerTalk that its a fantastic story but I’m just not convinced. Still, it’s a very important novel in the history of the genre so one I feel I really should tackle. But I’m really hoping to get Gaskell or Adichie.