The Classics Club: Time for Spin#37

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

1. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
2.  What Masie Knew by Henry James (1897)

20th Century Classics

3. Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett (1902)
4. Ethan Frome  by Edith Wharton:  (1911)
5. O Pioneers by Willa Cather (1913)
6. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (1915)
7. Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby (1923)
8. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928)
9. Quartet by Jean Rhys (1929)
10. The Edwardians by Rita Sackville West (1930)
11. To The North by Elizabeth Bowen (1932)
12. Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
13.  They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple (1934)

International Classics

14. The Nose  by Nikolay Gogol (1836) — Ukraine/Russia
15. Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac (1846) — France
16. Skylark, by Dezső Kosztolányi (1924) — Hungary
17. On the Edge of Reason by  Miroslav Krleža (1938) — Croatia
18. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (1952) — Japan
19. The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas (1957) — Norway
20. 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.