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Saturday, December 5, 2015

Classics Club Spin #11

Classics Club is once again sponsoring the Classics Spin. What is a spin?
It’s easy. At your blog or on Facebook, by Monday, December 7, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list — in a separate post. This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in December & January. So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.) Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by February 1, 2016.---Classics Club
Since I am also attempting to read Women's Classic Literature in 2016 all of my selections will be authored by females for this spin.

Here is my list.

1. Sanditon by Jane Austen
2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
4. Suite Francais by Irene Nimerovsky
5. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
8. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe
9. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
10. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
11. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
12. Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery
13. Murder of Roger Ackroyd (or some other book) by Agatha Christie
14. Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
15. Middlemarch by George Eliott
16. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
17. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskill
18. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierksa
19. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
20. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe

Join me!? Create your own list of 20 classics you've been meaning to read or use my list. I'd love to have a read-a-long partner. But I warn you. I know they will spin #15 (Middlemarch) since it is the book I am the most nervous about tackling. Ha!

Update. Check out the spin number below the fold...

The Spin is number 19.  I will be reading The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Now to find a copy and get reading!

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