It’s time once more for another Classics Club spin. Having abandoned the books chosen in the two previous spins this year, I’m hoping that spin number 38 will mark a turnaround in my luck.
For those unfamiliar with the “spin” the idea is to make a “Spin List” of 20 books from our classics club reading list before this coming Sunday ( 21 July 2024) when a random number will be selected. The challenge will be to read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by 22 September 2024.
I’ve made some changes since the last list, in view of my recent reading slump. So I’ve swapped out a lot of the chunky nineteenth century books for more twentieth century titles which I’m thinking could be quicker reads. I may be proved wrong there but only time will tell.
Here’s my new spin list.
- Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac (1846)
- A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1886)
- New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
- Money by Emile Zola (1891)
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James (1897)
- Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett (1902)
- Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
- William — An Englishman by Cecily Hamilton (1919)
- Quartet by Jean Rhys (1929)
- The Edwardians by Rita Sackville West (1930)
- They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple (1934)
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
- Fisherman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941)
- No Highway by Neville Shute (1948)
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)
- Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (1954)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (1958)
- To Sir, With Love – E. R. Braithwaite (1959)
If this list was yours, which titles would you be hoping to see come up in the spin?? I’m hoping I get Jean Rhys, Barbara Pym or Dorothy Whipple.
