Classics club Spin#20

Time for another round of the Classics Club Spin.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of this, the idea is to create a list of any twenty books remaining from your Classics Club list, numbering them 1-20. On Monday 22nd April the Classics Club will announce a number. This is the book I will need to read by 31st May.

Since I don’t have 20 titles left unread from my original list I’m having to be creative. Numbers 16-20 are new additions.

1. The Black Sheep  — Honore Balzac 1842
2. Basil— Wilkie Collins 1852
3. Framley Parsonage — Anthony Trollope 1861
4. New Grub Street— George Gissing 1891
5. O pioneers —  Willa Cather  1913
6. Gone to Earth  — Mary Webb 1917
7. Age of Innocence  — Edith Wharton 1920
8. The Last September —  Elizabeth Bowen 1929
9. All Passion Spent — Vita Sackville West 1932
10. Frost in May — Antonia White 1933
11. Old Soldiers Never Die— Frank Richards 1933
12. Turf or Stone  — Margiad Evans 1934
13. The Grapes of Wrath  — John Steinbeck 1939
14. Never No More— Maura Laverty 1942
15. The Quiet American  — Graham Greene 1955
16. Alone in Berlin — Hans Fallada 1947
17. To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf 1927
18. No Name — Wilkie Collins 1862
19. Evelina — Frances Burney 1778
20. The Lifted Veil — George Eliot 1859

I’m rather hoping for Turf or Stone by the Welsh author Margiad Evans , a dark novel about an abusive marriage. I’ve never read anything by her previously but she features in the Library of Wales collection of Welsh ‘classics.’