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| Classics Club |
Make a list of 20 classic books you want to read and number them. Then wait for the announcement of the winning number on August 24th. Check your list and that number is the book you commit to read for the next two months, by October 23rd. (Feel free to borrow my list, if you don't have time to make one yourself.)
Number, Title, Author
1. Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
2. Henderson The Rain King by Bellow, Saul
3. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino, Italo
4. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather, Willa
5. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
6. The Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
8. The Count of Monte Carlo by Dumas, Alexandre
9. The Name of the Rose by Eco, Umberto
10. Middlemarch by Eliot, George
11. Invisible Man by Ellison, Ralph
12. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, William
13. Dune by Herbert, Frank
14. Suite Français by Nimerovsky, Irene
15. The Trial by Kafka, Franz
16. On the Road by Kerouac, Jack
17. Midnight's Children by Rushdie, Salmon
18. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John
19. Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, Rainier Maria/ plus anything by Agatha Christie
20. Wild Sargasso Sea by Rhys, Jean
We are told to add books we REALLY hope are picked as well as those we rather dread. For me it is the same book, for some weird reason: Middlemarch. I really want to read it but dread it at the same time. We'll see if it is picked.
