There’s a new Classic Club Spin on the horizon and I can only hope I can a better result than the last time around when I landed Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring. It was so awful I couldn’t get further than about page 50.
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 April 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 2 June 2024.
Here’s my spin list.
I’ve freshened up the list I used last time taken out the 19th century novels which tend to be long and added more titles to the 20th century and international classics section.
19th Century Classics
- New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
- What Masie Knew by Henry James (1897)
20th Century Classics
- Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett (1902)
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton: (1911)
- O Pioneers by Willa Cather (1913)
- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (1915)
- Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby (1923)
- Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928)
- Quartet by Jean Rhys (1929)
- The Edwardians by Rita Sackville West (1930)
- To The North by Elizabeth Bowen (1932)
- Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
- They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple (1934)
International Classics
- The Nose by Nikolay Gogol (1836) — Ukraine/Russia
- Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac (1846) — France
- Skylark, by Dezső Kosztolányi (1924) — Hungary
- On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža (1938) — Croatia
- Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (1952) — Japan
- The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas (1957) — Norway
- To Sir, With Love – E. R. Braithwaite (1959) — Guyana
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 or Edith Wharton.
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